Nicotinamide

Think about niacinamide.

Oral vitamin B3, nicotinamide or niacinamide, they're the same thing.

Not niacin.

Niacin that causes flushes, they didn't look at that.

They replace the missing mortar.

Niacinamide boosts the collagen's own ceramide production.

And calms inflammation.

And calms

We live in times when every day there is a new product that is being propagated on the internet as something that will solve all your skincare problems.

Niacinamide has become very famous in household.

If you go to anyone's washroom these days, everyone has a retinol, a niacinamide, a vitamin C and a skin barrier.

Right? I think people often confuse and don't understand what is not to be mixed.

I'm gonna throw some items at you and you have to tell me whether they work or they don't work okay

okay

so this is take it or trash it pimple edition all right Niacinamide.

Take it.

Niacinamide is everywhere, but does that mean it belongs in every treatment? And more importantly, do you really know when to use it, who it's for, and when you should leave it out? Let's take the hype out of niacinamide and look at what it actually brings to professional skincare.

Welcome back to Beauty Babble.

I'm Suzanne, Sodesco certified esthetician, former spa owner, and educator and mentor to many beauty professionals near and far.

And my goal with Beauty Babble is to cut through the noise and bring back to what actually matters in professional practice.

And today we're talking about an ingredient you've probably noticed everywhere.

Niacinamide.

It's in serums, moisturizers, cleansers, masks, professional treatment products, and even in body formulations.

So, Why has this particular ingredient become such a staple? Is it really as versatile as we're being told? And how do we decide when it actually makes sense for the client sitting in front of us? That's what we're really going to explore today.