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INCI ingredient

Niacinamide

Vitamin B3, a widely used skin-conditioning ingredient.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Niacinamide is a water-soluble vitamin made synthetically for cosmetics. It is used in serums, moisturisers and cleansers, often at 2 to 10 percent.

It affects none of the six checks and is not animal-derived.

Functions: skin conditioning

Products with Niacinamide

in 645 products

Showing 24 of 645 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • smoothing
  • smoothing: Seeking to achieve an even skin surface by decreasing roughness or irregularities.

CAS 98-92-0 · EC 202-713-4

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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