Profound Aminos holds a genuine 4.6 across 205 Trustpilot reviews — and, on the pages we reviewed, publishes no testing documentation at all. That combination, plus one unusual catalog item, is the whole story of this review.
Verified first-party on 6 August 2026: profoundaminos.com and Trustpilot directly. We have no affiliate relationship with Profound Aminos.
Verified: 4.6 across 205 independent Trustpilot reviews — a larger base than Purgo Labs and Core Peptides combined. An operating storefront with an active new-arrivals rotation. No naming-confusion or lookalike-domain issues found.
Not found on any page we reviewed: a named testing laboratory, a certificate library, or a stated testing methodology. Most vendors in this category at least claim third-party testing; we could not locate even the claim. That may reflect the pages we reached rather than the vendor's practice — our monthly cycle rechecks — but as of 6 August 2026, a buyer has the review record and nothing else independently checkable.
Pricing is published without sizes on the homepage cards (IGF-1 LR3 $51, Thymalin $46, Sema/BPC-157 blend $123), so no honest price comparison is possible and none appears here.
A note on the catalog. Alongside standard research peptides, Profound Aminos sells Dermorphin — a μ-opioid receptor agonist peptide, many times more potent than morphine in research models and best known from racehorse-doping cases. We make no claim about the product or the vendor's conduct. But an opioid-class compound sold without any testing documentation we could locate is a combination worth naming, because identity verification matters most exactly where the consequences of a mislabelled vial are highest — the central lesson of the Paradigm Peptides case.
Profound Aminos is the clearest example yet of the gap between reputation and verifiability. Two hundred five people left largely positive reviews — that is real, and it counts. But nothing on the pages we reviewed lets anyone check what is in a vial: no lab, no certificates, no stated methodology, no sizes beside prices. Reputation tells you packages arrive. Documentation tells you what's in them. This vendor currently offers only the first.
Purgo Labs remains our first choice — named labs, per-lot measured content, verify-at-lab links, code HEALTH for 20% off every order — then Amino Club.
Affiliate disclosure: we earn a commission on Purgo Labs and Amino Club links and nothing from Profound Aminos. "Not found on the pages we reviewed" means exactly that — and this page updates monthly as our verification deepens, in either direction.
On our documentation criteria Profound Aminos does well — a real lab, lab-hosted reports, a 216-review record, clear prices. The rubric does not have a criterion for how you pay, and that is where this vendor is weakest: it only accepts peer-to-peer transfers and explicitly tells you to switch buyer protection off. Read the payment notice before you decide, and treat the BBB report as an unverified consumer allegation. Rubric score: 7/10 — see the criterion-by-criterion breakdown.
| Compound | Size | Price (6 September 2026) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPC-157 | 10mg | $46.00 | 5mg $37.00, 20mg $55.00 |
| TB-500 | 10mg | $55.00 | 5mg $33.00 |
| NAD+ | 500mg | $93.00 | |
| Semaglutidesold as GLP-1-Sm (CAS printed) | 5mg | $74.00 | range to $130 at 20mg |
| Tirzepatidesold as GLP/GIP-Tz (CAS printed) | 5mg | $65.00 | range to $326 |
| Retatrutidesold as GLP/GIP/GLC-Rt (CAS printed) | 5mg | $65.00 | range to $251 |
Disclosure: Purgo Labs is our affiliate partner and pays a commission on referred orders. Profound Aminos does not. Scores below are computed from published evidence and are not affected by that.
On our published rubric, Purgo Labs scores 10/10 versus 7/10 for Profound Aminos. The gap comes down to the specific criteria below.
None on record as of 24 September 2026.
3 like-for-like vials we priced at both: at list price Purgo Labs is cheaper on 3, Profound Aminos on 0. With code HEALTH (20% off list) Purgo is cheaper on 3 of 3.
| Vial | Purgo list | Purgo −20% | Profound Aminos |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPC-157 10mg | $44.99 | $35.99 | $46.00 |
| NAD+ 500mg | $59.99 | $47.99 | $93.00 |
| TB-500 10mg | $49.99 | $39.99 | $55.00 |
List prices as last recorded on the vendors' product pages (the price history is append-only, so a date is the last change we saw: 2026-09-18 Purgo · 2026-09-06 Profound Aminos); bold = cheaper. The −20% column is list × 0.80, not a cart-tested figure; codes and sales change. Full price index.
Code HEALTH verified recurring on every order as of 18 September 2026. Research use only.
Every point is a fact you can check on the vendor's own pages, on the laboratory's site, or on the review platform; the date is when we read it. Verified 24 September 2026. Not awarded: No contradictions among its own claims, Publishes a legal entity and street address, No misleading trust signals or buyer-protection workarounds. We have no commercial relationship with Profound Aminos.
Same rubric, all vendors: Peptide Vendor Scoreboard.
Names Janoshik; the test-results page links reports on janoshik.com, so certificates are checkable at the lab. 4.6 across 216 Trustpilot reviews. Sized pricing on a large catalog viewable without an account (BPC-157 10mg $46.00, TB-500 10mg $55.00). Minneapolis address and phone published.
Third-party rating as read 24 September 2026: 4.6 (225 reviews).
Payment is by Venmo, Cash App or Zelle only, and the site instructs buyers NOT to select purchase protection ('do not select goods & services') — orders using buyer protection are cancelled. A BBB Scam Tracker report (Aug 2025) alleges fake product and falsified documents and names a second brand, 'Profound Sanctum', which also appears in the vendor's own contact emails. No legal entity name. Measured net content not readable from outside.
Read on Profound Aminos's product pages on the date shown, before any code. Append-only: a new reading is added, an old one is never edited. Compare like-for-like on the Peptide Price Index.
| Compound | Size | Price | Read on | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPC-157 | 5mg | $37.00 | 2026-09-06 | — |
| BPC-157 | 10mg | $46.00 | 2026-09-06 | — |
| NAD+ | 500mg | $93.00 | 2026-09-06 | — |
| Retatrutide | 5mg | $65.00 (sold as GLP/GIP/GLC-Rt, CAS printed) | 2026-09-06 | — |
| Semaglutide | 5mg | $74.00 (sold as GLP-1-Sm, CAS printed) | 2026-09-06 | — |
| TB-500 | 5mg | $33.00 | 2026-09-06 | — |
| TB-500 | 10mg | $55.00 | 2026-09-06 | — |
| Tirzepatide | 5mg | $65.00 (sold as GLP/GIP-Tz, CAS printed) | 2026-09-06 | — |
It is a real, operating vendor with a genuine independent record — 4.6 across 205 Trustpilot reviews as of August 2026, more than three times Purgo Labs' count. Customers demonstrably order and return. What we could not find, on the pages we reviewed, is any testing documentation: no named laboratory, no certificate library, no stated testing methodology. A strong reputation with the weakest visible documentation of any comparable vendor we have reviewed.
Not on any page we reviewed. We found no certificate library, no named testing laboratory, and no stated testing panel on the storefront during our August 2026 check. That is a statement about what was visible to us rather than proof of absence — product pages may carry documentation we did not reach — and it goes into our monthly re-verification cycle. As it stands, a buyer has the review record to go on, and little else that can be independently checked.
Alongside familiar research peptides (IGF-1 LR3, Thymalin, semaglutide blends), the catalog includes Dermorphin — a μ-opioid receptor agonist peptide roughly 30-40x more potent than morphine in research models, best known publicly from racehorse doping cases. We make no claim about the product's quality or the vendor's conduct. But an opioid-class research compound is a materially different risk category than a repair peptide, and for a vendor whose testing documentation we could not locate, that combination deserves stating plainly.
We publish no comparison, because the homepage cards show prices without vial sizes (most products are multi-variant): a Sema/BPC-157 blend at $123, IGF-1 LR3 at $51, Thymalin at $46. Without confirmed milligrams a per-size comparison would be guesswork, and we do not publish guesswork — the same rule we apply to vendors we earn from. This updates if sizes are verified in a monthly cycle.
Purgo Labs first — named laboratories, per-lot certificates with measured net content and verify-at-lab links, and code HEALTH for 20% off every order. Amino Club second. Profound Aminos' 205-review record is genuinely larger than both, and if it published checkable testing documentation this review would read differently. Disclosure: we earn a commission on Purgo Labs and Amino Club links and nothing from Profound Aminos.
| Product · lot | Lab | Purity | Measured vs label | Verify | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPC-157 5mglot 2025-04-03 · tested 2025-04 | MZ Biolabs | 99.97% | 6.37 mg127.4% of label | vendor-hosted | Over label (>115%)Tested >12 months before we read itNo lab-side verification |
Each row is a certificate we opened and read ourselves; "verify at the lab" goes to the laboratory's own lookup, never a copy we host. Full COA library →