Why Your Skin Loves Vitamin B3 + B5
Vitamin B3 + B5 are like the supporting actor or actress in a movie!
We hear so much talk about the ACE Vitamins. Vitamins A,C,E, they are like the leading actor and actress of a movie. They get top billing and everyone knows who they are! Everyone has their favorite too!
But for those in the know – true film buffs – they know the supporting actors too!
Well, we’re skincare aficionados and we know that Vitamin B3 and B5 have some amazing benefits for the skin!
What is Provitamin B5 – Panthenol?
“Panthenol (also known as Dexpanthenol or Provitamin B5) is a more stable alcohol derivative of Pantothenic acid or Vitamin B5. It offers excellent anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, restorative and wound healing benefits for our skin.”
Is Provitamin B5 – Panthenol good for my skin?
Dexpanthenol acts like a moisturizer with barrier-improving properties and it has wound healing effects. These two properties have therefore found the most utility for panthenol use in skincare; as skin moisturizer/skin barrier restorer and as a facilitator of wound healing. Read Full Article
2 Vitamin B5 Rich Products
This is a rich and creamy, gentle cleanser that is a joy to use. Nutrient enriched with Vitamin B5 to revitalize all skin types.
Vegan, Paraben Free, Natural Skin Care. Ideal for use after microneedling for its skin healing benefits.
Dermastart’s ClearChoice – Vita C B5 Complex
Vita C-B5 Complex is a unique formula that helps improve one’s tone, texture and appearance. This lightweight lotion utilizes powerful antioxidants to improve firmness. All combined with Vitamin C and B5. Continued use will stabilize melanin production leaving your skin bright and radiant.
What is Vitamin B3 (also known as Niacinamide and Nicotinamide)?
“Niacinamide, also known as Nicotinamide, is the active form of vitamin B3. It is a safe, oil-soluble vitamin that offers improvements in skin fine lines/wrinkles, pigmentation spots, texture, red blotchiness, and improved skin yellowing.”
Is Niacinamide good for my skin?
Studies have shown that topical treatment with niacinamide can offer many benefits for our skin including:
In the treatment of melasma and hyperpigmentation
Niacinamide has been shown to be well tolerated by the skin and provided significant improvements in fine lines/wrinkles, hyperpigmentation spots, texture, red blotchiness and improved skin yellowing (sallowness)1.
Niacinamide has been demonstrated to suppress melanosome transfer to epidermal keratinocytes and thereby induce skin lightening. The transfer was inhibited by up to 68 percent in an in vitro model, and to render improvement in undesired facial pigmentation2. Too much melanin (which is a naturally occurring substance in the body that is responsible for both its color the skin’s absorption of UV rays) can result in age spots, freckles, and hyper-pigmentation. Read Full Article
4 Vitamin B3 Rich Products
Repêchage – Vita Cura® B3 Serum Complex
Barry is obsessed with this serum!
The Vita Cura® B3 Serum Complex gives you true, laboratory-tested results you can see and feel. In independent laboratory tests, the Vita Cura®️ Gold B3 Serum Complex has shown: 58% reduction in the appearance of wrinkles + 41% reduction in the appearance of pores
Formulated to provide youthful smoothness, visible lifting and firming, and a reduction in the appearance of enlarged pores, you will see immediate results with long-term benefits.
LeMieux – TGF B Booster
Supercharge your skincare with this award-winning youth serum that reactivates firmness and elasticity, airbrushes away lines and wrinkles, and ignites a radiant glow. Quadruple-peptide power, transforming growth factor, and skin-plumping hyaluronic acid intensify your anti-aging regimen when used alone or as the ultimate booster.
Dermatude – Cell Recovery Serum
Cell Recovery Serum helps to maintain good condition of skin cells, which is very important to prevent skin aging. To restore and protect cells to keep skin in good shape we use antioxidants, algae, enzymes, peptides and stem cells.
Rhonda Allison – Blushed Wine Gel
Looking for a lightweight, antioxidant-rich, hydrating, Pro Youth moisturizer? With the Blushed Wine Gel, your skin will instantly feel firmed, toned and hydrated with wine and grape seed extracts while niacinamide increases circulation for a healthy, youthful glow.