In popular culture and on social media, you can barely move for mention of ‘salmon sperm’ injections and facials at the moment. (This nickname is actually slightly inaccurate, but I’ll get to that later.) Kim Kardashian is getting them, the Selling Sunset girls are celebrating Galentine’s with them. And, yes, the beauty and aesthetics industries have been abuzz with the power of injectable polynucleotides, with both beauty editors and consumers having been impressed by the results.
After the initial polynucleotide boom, a secondary trend began to emerge on social media: PDRN serums, also acquiring the nickname salmon sperm skincare. And take to TikTok and you'll see that people are, ostensibly, loving said serums. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about skincare results in my years as a beauty editor, it’s that no topical skincare product can achieve results that are close to those of an injectable treatment—which are the reason so-called salmon and trout sperm-derived treatments really took off in the first place.
