VITAMIN B3

What is Vitamin B3?

Vitamin B3, also known as niacinamide and nicotinamide, is a water-soluble vitamin that acts with the skin's natural substances to noticeably lessen swollen pores, tighten lax pores, increase irregular skin tone, smooth fine lines and wrinkles, diminish dullness, and reinforce a damaged skin surface.

Vitamin B3 also lessens the effect of environmental degradation by improving the skin's barrier, and it also aids in the restoration of signs of past damage. This form of regular attack, if left without treatment, causes skin to look aged, duller, and less vibrant.



How Vitamin B3 Works?

Vitamin B3 helps regenerate and preserve the surface of skin against moisture depletion and dehydration by assisting skin in improving its normal development of skin-strengthening ceramides. When ceramides are reduced over time, skin becomes vulnerable to a number of issues, ranging from constant patches of rough, flaky skin to being increasingly sensitive.

If you have dry skin, topical Vitamin B3 has been shown to increase the hydrating capacity of moisturisers, allowing the skin's surface to better withstand moisture loss, which contributes to recurring dry, tight, flaky skin. Vitamin B3 pairs well with traditional moisturiser ingredients such as glycerin non-fragrant plant oils, cholesterol, sodium PCA, and sodium hyaluronate.

Vitamin B3 has a normalising effect on the pore coating, and this impact tends to prevent particles from being clogged, resulting in clogs and rough, bumpy skin. If the clog grows and worsens, the pores expand to compensate, resulting in swollen pores. Vitamin B3 use helps pores return to their natural size by assisting items to return to normal. Sun damage may also cause pores to become swollen, resulting in what some call "orange peel skin." Higher Vitamin B3 concentrations may help noticeably tighten pores by enhancing the skin's supporting components.


What Vitamin B3 Does To The Skin?

Centered on personal taste, Vitamin B3 can be used alone or blended with your preferred moisturiser. Those who are concerned about advanced signs of sun exposure, orange peel texture, oily bums and lax pores should consider higher concentrations of Vitamin B3.

You should also add Vitamin B3-containing products to your skin. Some can find that using a moisturiser or eye cream containing niacinamide enhances the appearance of under eye circles, softens the appearance of crow's feet, and encourages this delicate region to maintain skin-smoothing moisture and prevent loss of firmness.

Vitamin B3 is a skin care ingredient worth considering, and your skin will thank you. Among a slew of other incredible skin care ingredients such as retinol and vitamin C, Vitamin B3 stands out due to its adaptability to virtually every skin care issue and skin condition.



Reference Sources

  • Clinical, Cosmetic, and Investigational Dermatology, July 2015, pages 405-412
  • Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, June 2014, pages 311-315
  • International Journal of Pharmacy, January 2013, pages 192-201
  • Dermatoendrocrinology, July 2012, pages 308-319