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Whitening history
Having whitening skin is the lifelong pursuit of Chinese and even Asian women.
But did you know? A thousand years ago, Chinese women were and went ahead on the road of whitening.
Since ancient times, China has had the aesthetic concept of "one white covering up a hundred ugliness", and in ancient times, white skin usually meant less manual labor, metaphorically distinguishing status. Therefore, whitening has also become the skin care goal of generations of Chinese women.
Since the pre-Qin period, it has been washed with taomi water, and people knew that washing the face with taomi water has the effect of whitening. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, whitening skin care entered its heyday, especially represented by Wu Zetian and Yang Yuhuan. It is said that the earliest skin care mask in China was Wu Zetian. It developed until the Qing Dynasty, where the skin care master "Empress Dowager Cixi" appeared. In pursuit of whitening, she even washed her face with human milk bath. Therefore, whitening is a thing that all girls are pursuing from ancient times to the present, since it comes to whitening, it has to be said that the recently very popular whitening raw material - niacinamide, data survey it has been ranked among the best in the list of whitening raw materials, want to know why it has always been among the best, then follow the small editor to understand it ~
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What is niacinamide
Nicotinamide, also known as niacinamide or vitamin B3, is an amide compound of niacin. It is a water-soluble vitamin, one of the 13 essential vitamins of the human body, and belongs to the most cosmetic vitamin in the vitamin B group.
Niacinamide is a thriving ingredient in the skincare world and is known as the source of youth from outer space, playing an important role in the metabolism of proteins and sugars. In cosmetics, it can be used as a nutritional additive to repair the skin's natural barrier, stimulate cellular energy, anti-aging, whitening and freckle removal, moisturizing.
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Role and efficacy
There are two effects, medical effect and cosmetic effect.
Medical aspects: mainly for the treatment of glossitis, skin inflammation, as well as for some atrial diseases that appear, but also for patients with coronary heart disease, myocarditis and rheumatism.
Beauty: Niacinamide is a derivative of vitamin B3, but also recognized in the field of beauty skin science skin anti-aging ingredients, in recent years more and more people pay more attention, its most important effect in skin anti-aging is to reduce and prevent the skin in the early aging process of skin dullness, yellowing, vegetable color. Of course, niacinamide contributes much more to the skin than that, and can also repair the damaged stratum corneum lipid barrier and improve skin resistance. There are also some effects that may be overlooked, that is, the deep water locking effect of niacinamide, so skin care products containing niacinamide have a strong water locking and moisturizing effect, in general, niacinamide can be anti-aging, whitening, moisturizing and hydrating~
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