Niacinamide: a white crystalline powder
Niacinamide: a white crystalline powder. Own illustration.

Niacinamide

Supports a more even complexion and helps make pigment spots less visible.

  • INCINiacinamide
  • What it isvitamin B3
  • Soort informatieOnafhankelijk onderzoek naar de stof

Why it is in there

Vitamin B3, one of the best-researched ingredients in skincare. Independent research in humans looked at the skin barrier and an even complexion, among other things.

Bron: Boo, Antioxidants 2021 (review)

Where it comes from

Vitamin B3, one of the best-researched ingredients in personal care.

What is known

On the label this ingredient appears as niacinamide.

Human studies on niacinamide have been published in professional journals. What came out of them is below. It is about the ingredient and about other creams, not about ours.

What the maker measured

Niacinamide has also been studied outside the manufacturers. In a study of 50 women, they used 5% niacinamide on one half of the face and the same cream without the ingredient on the other for twelve weeks, double-blind. On the niacinamide side the researchers saw fewer fine lines, fewer pigment spots and less redness. The authors worked at a manufacturer of personal care products; an independent review article from 2021 summarises the human research.

This is research into the active, not into the Valvor Man product. What a single active does in a study is not a promise about the cream it sits in.

Bron: Bissett et al., Dermatologic Surgery 2005

About the research

Published studies in humans, against placebo or vehicle, mostly small and in women. Some of the authors worked at Procter & Gamble. An independent review article (Boo 2021, Antioxidants) summarises the human studies. No study with the Valvor Man product; the concentration in the formula is not yet known.

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Bron: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34439563/