Category Archives: Brightening Lightening Skin Whitening I have received many responses and inquiries regarding niacinamide and its relationship to niacin in topical skin care. Without me even noticing, my favorite active skin care ingredient, NIACINAMIDE, has gone POPULAR!! WOW!! Everywhere I look online there are products and research supporting the benefits of this supercharged skin care ingredient.
Chemical names are confusing, so […]
Below please find FUNDED (not as objective, but still valid research) AND neutral research abstracts regarding Niacinamide’s TOPICAL (skin care) use for improving skin conditions including yellowing, sallowing, aging, wrinkles, and acne.
Here is a great commercial link on niacinamide in commercially available skin care: http://futurederm.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spotlight-on-niacinamide/
Also, I went into the medical databases and retrieved the […]
The Olay Regenerist line was the product line that introduced niacinamide into my beauty arsenal and I have been more in favor of niacinamide than any other active ingredient, even alpha lipoic acid and vitamin e.
Now, Olay has impressed me again with its incredible new technology: a FOAM that pampers the skin.
The reason why I […]
Depending on what kind of skin you have (oily/sensitive/dry), decide what base you want to use for the niacinamide to go into.
You can use contact solution or purified water to start.
Most commercial serums and light lotions will do, however try to avoid products with high concentrations of vitamin C or AHA in it as it […]
Skin Lightening and Carotenoids
Carotenes and Carotenoids
When it comes to whitening and brightening your complexion, we often focus on only the melanins (blacks and browns) in our skintone. However, what about that yellow, sallow, brownish undercast that gives your skin a generally dull and ill-hued appearance?Â
Have you noticed that you are “yellower” than your […]
After testing my own skin with more active ingredients than able to fill a library index (okay okay I’m exaggerating), I am coming to a year-end (2008) conclusion on what I feel is the most effective, most convenient, and most economical skin regimen:
NIACINAMIDE CAPSULE-MASKS!
The number one reason why I love this regimen is… it just […]
Methyl dihydroxybenzoate for skin lightening
Below is an interesting entry from a member at http://www.SkinActives.com
” I’m very interested in making a “copycat” version of Vivite Vibrance Therapy cream.Â? I’ve heard that this cream is very successful in lightening stubborn melasma.Â? Would you consider adding Methyl dihydroxybenzoate as an active?Â? It’s pretty much the only ingredient not […]
http://www.rossorg.com/Complete%20Product%20Guide%2006.06.pdf
This lotion from Dermaquest evens skin coloring and inhibits pigmentation with a melanin-suppressing peptide and a powerful combination of lightening herbal extracts. This non-hydroquinone, non-AHA product also protects skin cells by including potent antioxidants to scavenge free radicals.
• Suppresses melanocyte activity
• Lightens skin discoloration
• Reduces inflammation that leads to pigmentation
• Scavenges free radicals through potent […]
Effective, aggressive whitening regimens are VERY addictive and it is very easy to continue applying “miracle agents” even when you start peeling and getting redness. It’s totally understandable and happens more often than you think.
Part of us, perhaps subconsciously, always get the feeling, “well at least it’s reacting, at least it’s changing… something good has […]
Alpha Arbutin Works Better than Hydroquinone?
Alpa Arbutin’s manufacturers proclaim that the active, pure substance works on removing “liver spots”, brightening skin color, and inhibiting tanning (even after UV sun exposure) and darkening of the skin BETTER than d-kojic acid and hydroquinone — the medicine dermatologists prescribe and the de facto OTC go-to for ridding of […]
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