What is the relationship between niacin and nicotinamide? I think a lot of people are curious about this, and today, we’re going to take a look at it briefly.
Nicotinic acid and nicotinamide relationship is very simple, actually is a kind of transformation, the relationship between the nicotinic acid can be converted into niacinamide after the body to absorb, the two substances have a lot of similarities, of course, there are also differences, obvious difference is both acid and alkaline, nicotinic acid, acidic, niacinamide weakly alkaline, it also solved conveniently used in cosmetics is weakly alkaline niacinamide, Instead of acidic nicotinic acid, cosmetic grade nicotinamide needs to be selected in order to meet more stringent operations according to the needs of cosmetic production.
As an important component of added in cosmetics cosmetics niacinamide, not only have suitable acid, alkaline, and special effect, it can be formed in the melanocyte and cutin cell between have the effect of small inhibit melanin body transfer, thus inhibiting serine protease activated receptor activation, then melanin body won’t be able to transfer, can inhibit melanin precipitation, Whitening skin function, therefore, in cosmetics, especially with whitening effect of cosmetics, cosmetic grade nicotinamide is an important role to play ingredients.
