Niacinamide Powder - 99% Vitamin B3 Cosmetic Ingredient

Niacinamide Powder is a versatile, water-soluble vitamin B3 ingredient for serums, toners, gels, creams and lotions. It helps formulators build products for brighter, more even-looking tone, smoother texture, visible fine-line care and barrier-focused hydration. With a 99% assay and practical development sizes, it suits laboratory evaluation, indie-brand product development and measured small-batch formulation.

Choose a paid trial size for bench work, move into pilot quantities as your formula develops, or request a bulk quote for commercial supply.

• Supports brighter, more even-looking skin-tone concepts.
• Useful for smoother-looking texture and visible fine-line care.
• Fits water-based serums, toners, gels, emulsions and selected rinse-off products.

Product Specifications

Key Benefits

• Brighter, more even-looking tone. A strong choice for tone-support serums, moisturizers and daily-care formulas designed to reduce the look of dullness and uneven pigmentation.
• Smoother-looking texture. Supports products targeting a refined, more uniform surface appearance and the visible look of enlarged pores.
• Visible fine-line care. Useful in age-support formulas intended to improve the appearance of fine lines and help skin look more supple.
• Barrier-focused hydration. Fits moisturizing concepts designed to support skin-barrier lipids, moisture retention and comfortable-looking skin.

Why Formulators Choose Niacinamide

Niacinamide combines broad consumer recognition with practical formulation value. It can support several cosmetic briefs from one water-phase active, helping development teams create streamlined serums, toners and emulsions without relying on a complex active system. Its usefulness across tone, texture, hydration and age-support concepts also makes it practical for product-line extensions and multi-SKU development.

Typical Applications

• Brightening and even-tone serums, essences and toners
• Daily moisturizers, gel creams, lotions and facial emulsions
• Barrier-support and hydration-focused products
• Age-support formulas for texture and fine-line appearance
• Scalp-care or rinse-off concepts where the complete formula supports its use

Quick Formulation Guide

Quality Documents and Supply Planning

For qualification, compare the current batch COA with your approved specification and review the relevant TDS and SDS before production. Ask our team which current documents can be supplied for your evaluation. For bulk planning, include your required quantity, destination market, target specification, testing requirements and expected purchase timing.

Why Source From Us

1. Start with samples scale to bulk orders – one supplier from trial to production: Validate with lab samples, then scale to commercial volumes – same quality, same team. No re-qualification, no project delays.
2. Formulation support that actually helps – not just a data sheet: We give you hands-on guidance on solubility, temperature, pH, and compatibility. A real formulation partner, not a catalog.
3. Reliable supply chain – consistent quality, on-time delivery, batch after batch: Own manufacturing facilities plus long-term partnerships with audited upstream producers ensure batch-to-batch consistency. Full documentation with every shipment. No "sample passes, bulk fails"
4. Export-ready documentation – compliance, customs, cleared：Complete technical documentation packages – COA, MSDS, TDS, stability data – batch-specific and regulatory-ready. We handle the paperwork so your compliance and procurement teams can focus on formulation

Recommended Ingredient Pairings

Scientific Evidence Snapshot

In a clinical study of a tested topical formulation, 5% niacinamide was associated with improvements in several visible aging-skin endpoints, including fine lines, texture and hyperpigmented spots [R5].

Laboratory and topical-use research reported increased synthesis of ceramides and other stratum-corneum lipids, with barrier-related findings that support hydration-focused product development [R7].

These findings apply to the tested systems and conditions. Ingredient inclusion alone does not guarantee the performance of a new finished formula.

Research & References

[R1] PubChem Compound Summary: Nicotinamide (CID 936)

[R3] MakingCosmetics: Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide), USP 317

[R4] Lotioncrafter: Vitamin B3 Niacinamide Formulation Guide

[R5] Bissett et al. (2005): Niacinamide improves aging facial skin appearance

[R7] Tanno et al. (2000): Nicotinamide, ceramide biosynthesis and barrier function