Vitamin B3’s power on your eyes

One of our main ingredients in our Seductive Sensation Revitalizing Eye Cream is the Vitamin B3.

Vitamins are known to help our body to have energy. Vitamin B3 is composed of 2 molecules: niacin and niacinamide, that's why in skincare you hear a lot about the niacinamide. It is an essential ingredient for the body and has a lot of benefits for the skin.

History

Vitamin B3 was discovered in 1937 by the American nutritional biochemist Conrad Elvehjem. Indeed, at that time a disease was raging all over the world: the disease of pellagra, a serious disease due to malnutrition that causes itching and sometimes even dementia. Thanks to the research the biochemist discovered, it has been discovered that this disease was caused by the deficiency of vitamin B3. This is why it is important to regularly consume foods that are sources of vitamin B3 like liver, white meat, oily fish, mushrooms, cereals, eggs and green vegetables.

Benefits on the body

Vitamin B3 is therefore essential for your health and will have an energising effect on your body. Thanks to it you will be more energetic and feel less tired. It also has a positive effect on your morale - it protects your nervous system and helps you to maintain normal psychological functions, so you don't get depressed. It improves blood circulation and reduces the level of bad cholesterol in the blood.

Benefits on your skin

For the skin vitamin B3 has many incredible benefits - it is an ingredient full of good things for the cosmetic industry:

• Helps to fight against skin ageing. It improves the elasticity and the appearance of the skin and fights wrinkles and fine lines. The skin looks less wrinkled, more radiant and softer.

• Maintains moisture: it acts as a protective barrier for the skin to retain moisture which is beneficial for all skin types and especially mature skin.

• Helps to combat hyperpigmentation of the skin as it has a lightening effect. It improves the quality of the skin tone and lightens spots.

• The anti-inflammatory effect will help sensitive and reactive skin to have less redness and less irritation. This action also helps to fight acne.

• Regulates sebum. Vitamin B3 has positive effects on all skin types. It will regulate the amount of sebum for oily skin that tends to shine.

• Protects against the sun's rays, as it is often said, the sun is dangerous for the skin. Vitamin B3 will protect against the damage caused by the sun and rebuild healthy skin cells.

Thanks to all these amazing features vitamin B3 is present in most of your cosmetics and by combining these effects with other ingredients like hyaluronic acid it does wonders for your skin like our Seductive Sensation Revitalizing Eye Cream.

Prevention

Like most ingredients Vitamin B3 is very important for your skin and can bring you a lot of benefits, it is still an ingredient that can be bad to your health when it is used too often or in too big quantities.

In nutrition it is recommended to consume about 14 to 16 mg of vitamin B3 per day. Consumption of more than 100 mg of vitamin B3 per day can lead to swelling of the face and neck, headaches or itching and even stomach discomfort.

In cosmetics the doses contained in the products do not exceed a concentration between 0.1% and 3%, which is a sufficient dose in a mixture, so there is no risk. If you are prone to allergies you should always test the products on a small part of your skin for 24 hours to see if you don’t have any reaction.

Overall, Vitamin B3 remains a very popular ingredient in skincare products. And even if it needs to be taken with caution in nutrition, we can assure you that in our revitalizing eye cream the amount of Vitamin B3 is strictly controlled in order to deliver you the best benefits of this ingredient.

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