Is the 47 Skin serum worth buying?
Yes, at £29.00 for a first bottle: a seller you can look up in the public register, and a refund that survives you opening the box.
What a first bottle costs
£33.49 is the real total for one bottle delivered, and delivery is free once the basket passes £30.00.
Opens the brand's own product page, where the one-off price and the Subscribe and Save price sit in the same selector.
The guarantee applies to a first order per household, one unit per product type, and UK and US orders, and it refunds everything but the postage. The £4.49 delivery and any import charges stay outside the refund. Prices and policies were read on 11 September 2026 and can change. Nothing here is medical advice.
Five things, plainly graded, and who this suits
Five things, plainly graded
| What we checked | Grade | The detail |
|---|---|---|
| Opened and used product | Refunded, nothing posted back | "Do I need to send the product back? No, we don't need you to send it back to us". First order per household, one unit per product type, UK and US only, and the refund covers everything but the postage. |
| Our door against the shop's other routes | Same £29.00 everywhere | Home page, best sellers, shop collection, product page and the shop's own products.json all printed £29.00 for the 30ml serum on 11 September 2026. The US storefront charges $45.00 for the same bottle. |
| The refund window, in writing | Day 30 to day 47 | The guarantee page grants a refund request "anytime between day 30 and day 47" of a first order, counted from the day you pay. |
| Who takes the card payment | A named British company | 47 SKIN LTD, company number 11474567, registered in Huddersfield on 20 July 2018, accounts filed to 31 May 2025, VAT GB 346156987, the same address in the register and in its own terms. |
| The independent record | 4.5 out of 5, 5,444 reviews | Trustpilot, read 11 September 2026: 4,224 five star reviews, a profile claimed since February 2019, no platform alert, and "Replied to 100% of negative reviews". |
A good fit for you, if you
- want a seller you can check before you pay: 47 SKIN LTD is in the Companies House register, with an address, a VAT number and filed accounts
- want a guarantee that survives opening the box, because a used bottle is refundable and nothing goes back in the post
- are buying your first order, direct from 47 Skin, to a UK or US address, which is the only order the policy covers
- will actually use one product daily for 30 days, which is what the policy asks before you can request anything
- want the bill written down first: £29.00 for the 30ml serum, £4.49 delivery, free above £30.00
Worth two minutes before you order
- start with the 30ml bottle at £29.00, because the guarantee asks for 30 days of use and the £16.00 trial's own title reads "15ml - 2 Weeks"
- buy direct from 47 Skin, since the policy names Amazon, Boots and Harrods as outside the guarantee
- order to a UK or US address, the two the guarantee covers
- diarise day 30 and day 47 from the day you pay, which is the span the refund request goes in
- if you are allergic to shellfish, read the brand's own ingredient list first: it carries the footnote "Chitosan is derived from shellfish"
Who reads this bench
Photos are for illustration.
What it costs in the UK, and what actually leaves your account
Read on 47skin.com on 11 September 2026, in pounds, with UK delivery: the 30ml bottle was £29.00 on every public route of the shop, its own products file included. On us.47skin.com it was $45.00 that day.
Anti-Blemish & Scar Repair Serum, 30ml
£29.00around £0.97 per ml, on the 30ml bottle one bottle, no plan, nothing renews- £4.49 delivery, free once the basket passes £30.00
- £33.49 delivered, and it counts as a first order, so the guarantee applies
Price read 11 September 2026.
Get the 30ml serum at £29.00 →£33.49 is the real total for a single bottle delivered, and delivery is free once the basket passes £30.00.
The same 30ml bottle, on a 4 week plan
£24.6515% off the £29.00 one-off price, on the same 30ml bottle 15% off, repeating every 4 weeks until you stop it- It is a subscription: the card is charged again every 4 weeks
- The 50ml bottle carries the same 15% on the same plan
This is a recurring plan, not a one-off.
Get the Subscribe and Save plan at £24.65 →£24.65 is charged again every 4 weeks until you stop the plan.
The two doors sit in one selector on the product page: £29.00 one-off, or Subscribe and Save at £24.65, which is a subscription, charged again every 4 weeks until you stop it.
The delivery arithmetic worth two minutes
47 Skin's delivery page, verbatim: "UK Standard Delivery: 4.49 GBP", "Enjoy free standard delivery on orders over 30 GBP", "Delivery within 5 business days". Adding the £9.00 trial size cleanser takes the basket to £38.00 with nothing to pay for delivery.
Priority delivery, both doors side by side, and what happens after you click
Priority is "6.49 GBP" and "Delivery within 1-2 business days".
Both doors sit in one selector on the product page, read 11 Sep 2026
What happens after you click: the link opens 47skin.com's own product page for the 30ml serum, on the brand's Shopify shop. The bottle size, and the choice between the one-off price and the 4 week plan, sit in one selector on that page, and the price shows without an account.
The whole catalogue, size by size, with the per-ml price
Sizes, entry points and routines
The four bottles as the brand photographs them, at the prices in the table below, read 11 September 2026.
| What it is | Price | Per ml | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trial Size Serum, 15ml (2 Weeks) | £16.00 | - | The cheapest way in. Its own title says two weeks, and the guarantee asks for 30 days of use, so the 30ml bottle is the one that fits it. |
| Trial Size Everyday Cleanser, 30ml | £9.00 | - | The cheapest item in the shop, and the usual way a £29.00 basket crosses the free delivery line. |
| Serum, 30ml | £29.00 | £0.97 | The bottle this review is about, around £0.97 per ml. |
| Serum, 50ml | £45.00 | £0.90 | £0.90 per ml, and it clears the free delivery line on its own. |
| Serum, 100ml | £76.00 | £0.76 | £0.76 per ml. |
| Serum, 300ml | £195.00 | £0.65 | £0.65 per ml, the lowest per-ml price in the range. The guarantee covers one unit per product type. |
| BHA Exfoliant | £29.00 | - | The product whose page publishes "2% Salicylic Acid". |
| Treatment Serum | £37.00 | - | The product whose page publishes "15% Azelaic Acid". |
| Exfoliating Skin Treatment | £39.00 | - | The product whose page publishes a "10% blend of AHAs and BHAs". |
| 3 Step Treatment Bundle | £74.00 | - | Bundles are priced 9 to 10 per cent under the same products bought one at a time. |
| Complete Routine Bundle | £222.00 | - | The largest routine in the shop. The guarantee covers one unit per product type. |
A hyphen in the per ml column means no per ml figure is shown for that line.
On us.47skin.com the same 30ml bottle was $45.00 on the same day. Our door is the UK shop, where £29.00 was the price on every public route we read.
The 47 Day First Try Guarantee, condition by condition
You can open the bottle, use it for a month and still get your money back, as long as the request goes in between day 30 and day 47 of your first order.
The six conditions, in the vendor's own words
- First-time purchase: "The guarantee applies only to your first order from 47 Skin."
- Direct purchase: "Orders placed via third-party resellers including Amazon, Boots & Harrods are not eligible for the guarantee."
- Used for at least 30 days: "You must try the product for a minimum of 30 days before requesting a refund."
- Refund request between day 30 and day 47: "Refunds can only be requested within this time frame."
- One unit per product type: "We only allow refunds on one unit per product type."
- UK & US orders only: "This guarantee is not available for international orders."
The refund covers "everything but the postage of your first order", and the terms add "Any import charges occurred are excluded from our moneyback guarantee." Asked "Do I need to send the product back?", 47 Skin answers: "No, we don't need you to send it back to us - and we'd love it if you could recycle." Nothing goes in the post, and an opened bottle is still refundable.
The guarantee as the shop prints it, and the statutory route beside it
47 Day Money Back GuaranteeTrust bar on the 47skin.com home page, read 11 September 2026
47 Day First Try Money Back Guarantee. If you don't see the results you hoped for, we'll refund you in full.Badge on the product page, read 11 September 2026
That's why we offer our 47-Day First Try Guarantee on your first order. Try our products for at least 30 days, and if you're not seeing the results you hoped for, you can request a full refund anytime between day 30 and day 47. No hassle, no risk.47skin.com/pages/money-back-guarantee, read 11 September 2026
The page adds: "We don't refund bulk buys of the same product, so make sure you only buy one." The clock starts on the day you pay. Standard delivery is quoted at "Delivery within 5 business days", so diarise both dates when you order.
The legal route and the house route
| Route, compared line by line | Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, quoted in 47 Skin's own terms | The 47 Day First Try Guarantee |
|---|---|---|
| How many days wide | 14 days | 17 days |
| Condition of the product | "unused, unopened, and in their original packaging" | Opened and used, and nothing goes back |
| Who pays the postage | The terms say "We do not cover return shipping costs unless the item is faulty" | Nothing to post, and the original postage is not refunded |
| When | Within 14 days of receiving the goods | Between day 30 and day 47 of your first order |
The two do not overlap, and that is the useful part. If the bottle is still sealed and you change your mind in week one, the statutory route is the one to use. If you have used it for a month and it did nothing for you, the house route is the one that pays out.
Start with the 30ml bottle
The entry product is listed as "Trial Size Anti-Blemish & Scar Repair Serum (15ml - 2 Weeks)" at £16.00. The guarantee asks you to "try the product for a minimum of 30 days before requesting a refund".
A bottle sized at two weeks runs out before day 30. If the refund is part of why you are willing to try this, the £29.00 30ml bottle is the one the guarantee is written for.
What is in the bottle, printed by the brand
47 Skin publishes a full ingredient list on every product and real concentrations where it has them, which most shops on this bench never do: "2% Salicylic Acid" on the BHA Exfoliant, "15% Azelaic Acid" on the Treatment Serum, a "10% blend of AHAs and BHAs" on the Exfoliating Skin Treatment, read 11 September 2026. On the 30ml serum, Chitosan is 15th on the list and carries the brand's own footnote, "Chitosan is derived from shellfish": read it before you order if you are allergic.
This is sold as a cosmetic. Anything on your skin that hurts, spreads or scars belongs with a doctor or a pharmacist rather than with a shop.
The full published ingredient list, and the studies the brand names
2% Salicylic Acid unclogs pores...47skin.com/products/bha-exfoliant, sentence quoted in part, read 11 September 2026
Formulated for persistent, hard-to-treat skin with 15% Azelaic Acid and Silver Chitoderm® for added intensity.47skin.com/products/treatment-serum, read 11 September 2026
Formulated for persistent, hard-to-treat skin with 10% blend of AHAs and BHAs and Silver Chitoderm® for added intensity.47skin.com/products/exfoliating-skin-treatment, read 11 September 2026
It names its testing house too: "Our products have undergone extensive clinical trials with Princeton Consumer Research."
And it prints the size of what it tested: "Based on a 12-week independent clinical study of 30 adults with blemish-prone skin", a "Consumer perception survey of 100 users after 30 days of use", and for a second set of figures, "In a customer study of 9,346 participants".
Ingredient lists run in descending order of quantity, and here is where a few of the names fall.
- 1stAquawater, the base of the formula
- 12thPhenoxyethanolthe preservative
- 15thChitosancarries the brand's own footnote: "Chitosan is derived from shellfish"
- 19thParfumthe fragrance
- tailSilver Chloridethe silver compound in the list, printed in the fragrance allergen tail, between Pinene and Citral
That is the vendor's list as published, with the middle of the fragrance allergen tail abridged where the brackets sit, and the brand's own spelling kept.
Silver Chitoderm is a trade name, so an ingredient list prints its components instead: Chitosan and Silver Chloride both appear in the list above.
What that gives you at the checkout: the full ingredient list sits on the page before you pay, and the shellfish footnote is printed by the brand itself.
That is the vendor's list as published, with the middle of the fragrance allergen tail abridged where the brackets sit, and the brand's own spelling kept. Silver Chitoderm is a trade name, so an ingredient list prints its components instead: Chitosan and Silver Chloride both appear above.
Who is actually selling this
A named British company takes the card payment: 47 SKIN LTD, company number 11474567, incorporated 20 July 2018, registered at 12 Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, HD1 4EN, VAT GB 346156987, accounts filed to 31 May 2025. Open the record yourself at Companies House. The terms name English law and carry no compulsory arbitration clause.
The full register record, field by field
| Field | What the register and the site both say |
|---|---|
| Company | 47 SKIN LTD, trading as 47Skin |
| Registration number | 11474567 |
| Incorporated | 20 July 2018, active, accounts made up to 31 May 2025, next due 28 February 2027 |
| Registered address | 12 Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, England, HD1 4EN |
| VAT | GB 346156987 |
| Nature of business | SIC 20411, manufacture of soap and detergents |
| Warehouse and returns | Northampton for dispatch, and 47 SKIN Offices, Foston, YO60 7QG for returns |
| Contact | customercare@47skin.com, printed on every legal page |
The terms say it in one sentence: "47 Skin Limited (t/a 47Skin) is the supplier of the goods and our registered address is 47 Skin Ltd,12 Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, England, HD1 4EN. registration number: 11474567. VAT registration number GB 346156987."
The terms say it in one sentence: "47 Skin Limited (t/a 47Skin) is the supplier of the goods and our registered address is 47 Skin Ltd,12 Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, England, HD1 4EN. registration number: 11474567. VAT registration number GB 346156987."
What 5,444 independent reviews look like up close
4.5 out of 5 across 5,444 Trustpilot reviews, read 11 September 2026: 4,224 five star (78 per cent), 514 one star (9 per cent). The profile is claimed since February 2019, with no suspension, alert or incentivised-review notice, and the company has "Replied to 100% of negative reviews".
The star breakdown, row by row
| Stars | Reviews | Share, per cent |
|---|---|---|
| 5 star | 4,224 | 78 |
| 4 star | 319 | 6 |
| 3 star | 203 | 4 |
| 2 star | 184 | 3 |
| 1 star | 514 | 9 |
Shares are rounded to whole numbers. Recent reviews arrive through the platform's standard invitation flow.
47 Skin, answered plainly
When can you ask for a 47 Skin refund?
Between day 30 and day 47 of your first order. 47 Skin's guarantee page says you use the product for at least 30 days first, then: "you can request a full refund anytime between day 30 and day 47". That is a 17 day window to ask.
The clock runs from the day you pay, and standard delivery is quoted at "Delivery within 5 business days", so put both dates in your phone when you order. Read 11 September 2026.
Do you have to send the bottle back to get a refund?
No, and this is the best line in the whole offer. 47 Skin's guarantee page asks and answers it directly: "Do I need to send the product back? No, we don't need you to send it back to us - and we'd love it if you could recycle." An opened, half-used bottle still qualifies. The refund covers "everything but the postage of your first order", and the terms exclude import charges. Read 11 September 2026.
What does the 47 Skin serum cost in the UK?
On 11 September 2026 the 30ml Anti-Blemish and Scar Repair Serum was £29.00 on 47skin.com, and the same £29.00 on the home page carousel, the best sellers collection, the shop collection, the product page and the shop's own public products file. Subscribe and Save, in the same selector on the product page, takes it to £24.65 on a repeating 4 week plan.
Standard UK delivery is £4.49 and free above £30.00, so a single bottle on its own costs £33.49 delivered. Bigger bottles cost less per ml: £45.00 for 50ml, £76.00 for 100ml, £195.00 for 300ml.
Who is the company behind 47 Skin?
47 SKIN LTD, company number 11474567, incorporated on 20 July 2018 and registered at 12 Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, England, HD1 4EN. Its accounts are filed up to 31 May 2025 with the next set due 28 February 2027, its VAT number GB 346156987 is printed in its own terms, its dispatch warehouse is in Northampton and returns go to 47 SKIN Offices, Foston, YO60 7QG.
The register and the website give the same address and the same number. Checked at Companies House on 11 September 2026.
What does 47 Skin publish about its formulas?
A full ingredient list on every product, and concentrations where it has them: "2% Salicylic Acid" on the BHA Exfoliant, "15% Azelaic Acid" on the Treatment Serum, a "10% blend of AHAs and BHAs" on the Exfoliating Skin Treatment.
Silver Chitoderm is a trade name, so the list for the 30ml serum prints its components, Chitosan and Silver Chloride, and it carries the brand's own footnote that "Chitosan is derived from shellfish". Read 11 September 2026.
What do the Trustpilot reviews say about 47 Skin?
The score is 4.5 out of 5 across 5,444 reviews, read on 11 September 2026: 4,224 at five stars, 319 at four, 203 at three, 184 at two and 514 at one.
The profile has been claimed and verified since February 2019 and carries no rating suspension, no consumer alert and no incentivised review notice, and Trustpilot records that the company has "Replied to 100% of negative reviews" with a typical reply time of 24 hours.
Can you use the guarantee if you buy from Boots, Harrods or Amazon?
No. The policy is explicit: "Orders placed via third-party resellers including Amazon, Boots & Harrods are not eligible for the guarantee." It also applies only to a first order per household, to one unit per product type, and to "UK & US orders only", with international orders excluded.
Buying direct from 47skin.com at £29.00 is what keeps the refund route open.
What if you change your mind in the first week?
Then you use the statutory route instead, and 47 Skin quotes it correctly in its own terms: "Under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, you have the right to cancel your order within 14 days of receiving your goods for a full refund, provided the items are unused, unopened, and in their original packaging."
The terms add that "We do not cover return shipping costs unless the item is faulty". So the two routes fit together: unopened in the first 14 days, or opened and used between day 30 and day 47 of a first order.
Prices and policies read 11 September 2026.
Get the 47 Skin Serum: £29.00 →£33.49 is the real total for one bottle delivered, free above £30.00.
How we reviewed it
Every page we read, and what the 8.2 rests on
This is a desk review, written from the vendor's own published pages and from public records, all read on 11 September 2026: 17 pages on 47skin.com, the US storefront, Companies House and Trustpilot.
The score is 8.2 out of 10, and it rests on three things anyone can check for themselves:
- The seller is a real British company. 47 SKIN LTD, number 11474567, incorporated 20 July 2018, accounts filed to 31 May 2025, the registered address identical to the one in its terms, VAT GB 346156987. Verified in the Companies House register.
- The guarantee covers an opened, used product and asks for nothing back: "we don't need you to send it back to us". In a field where the standard wording is unopened, unused and in its original packaging, that is the difference between a guarantee that exists and one that does not.
- The independent record is good and clean: 4.5 out of 5 across 5,444 Trustpilot reviews, a profile claimed since 2019, no suspension, no alert, no incentivised review notice, and every negative review replied to.
What we read, all on 11 September 2026, with the locale set to en-GB: the home page, the public products file, five product pages, the guarantee page, the delivery and returns page, the terms and conditions, the Silver Chitoderm and clinical trials pages, the awards and customer reviews pages, two collections, the US storefront, the Trustpilot profile and the Companies House record.
Prices, policies and terms change. Every figure here carries the date it was read. Check yours on the vendor's own page before you pay. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and skin conditions that hurt, spread or scar belong with a doctor or a pharmacist rather than with a shop.