Melanotan II
ResearchMelanotan II
- Category
- Aesthetic & Beauty
- Aliases
- MT-2, MT-II
- Administration
- Subcutaneous injection (unregulated, self-administered)
Documented benefits
Tier 1 · Peer-reviewed / regulatoryBenefit categories
Aesthetic & Beauty
Melanotan II's defining research application — a more potent, non-selective precursor to the FDA-approved Melanotan I and PT-141.
Skin pigmentation
Activates the same MC1R pathway as Melanotan I, but less selectively, which is part of why it also affects libido as a side effect.
Increased libido
Its non-selective receptor activity also engages the same MC4R brain pathway that PT-141 was later refined to isolate.