The Glow Ingredient Everyone’s Talking About: Niacinamide

If you’ve been scrolling through skincare TikTok or browsing the ingredient list of your favourite Silki products, you’ve probably seen the word niacinamide pop up again and again. It’s one of those ingredients that sounds fancy but is actually a quiet multitasker, a true skincare essential for every routine.

What is Niacinamide?

Niacinamide (also known as Vitamin B3) is a water-soluble vitamin that works beautifully with the skin’s natural barrier. It’s loved for its ability to strengthen, smooth, and balance the skin, which makes it suitable for nearly every skin type, from oily to dry, sensitive to acne-prone.

Why It’s a Silki Favourite

At Silki, we love niacinamide for its results that show and feel real. Here’s why it’s one of our go-to actives:

• Reduces redness and inflammation: If your skin easily flushes, stings, or feels sensitive, niacinamide helps calm it down by reducing inflammation at a cellular level. It’s ideal for soothing post-breakout redness and irritation from environmental stress.

• Balances oil production: Niacinamide helps balance sebum without over-drying the skin. The result? Fewer breakouts, a smoother texture, and a refined, healthy glow.

• Strengthens your skin barrier: Your skin barrier is like the wall that keeps hydration in and irritants out. Niacinamide boosts ceramide production (the lipids that make up that wall) helping your skin stay resilient, supple, and hydrated.

• Refines texture and pores: By improving elasticity and barrier function, niacinamide can make pores appear smaller and skin feel smoother, giving you that soft, Silki-like finish.

• Supports bright, even skin tone: It interferes with the transfer of pigment to skin cells, which means dark spots, acne marks, and uneven tone gradually fade. Your complexion looks clearer and more luminous with consistent use.

• Boosts overall radiance: When your barrier is strong, inflammation is low, and tone is balanced, your skin naturally glows. Niacinamide helps your skin function at its healthiest, and that always shows.

The Bottom Line

Niacinamide isn’t just a skincare trend, it’s a science-backed essential that helps your skin look and feel its healthiest. Whether it’s the star of the show in our Nia-Correct Serum, or the quiet supporter enhancing results in our Super Fade Serum, Brightening Toner and Skin Perfecting Tonic, niacinamide helps your skin stay calm, clear, and glowing from within.

At Silki, we’ve crafted each formula to bring out the best in your skin, because a strong, balanced barrier is always the foundation of a Silki glow.

At Silki, you’ll find niacinamide in the following products:

• Skin Perfecting Exfoliating Tonic
  Niacinamide in Silki’s Skin Perfecting Tonic works together with its exfoliating and soothing ingredients to refine skin texture and clarity. The Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA) unclogs pores and removes dead skin cells, allowing niacinamide to penetrate more effectively. Niacinamide then helps to strengthen the skin barrier, reduce redness, and even out tone, balancing the exfoliating action of BHA
  Use sunscreen, wear protective clothing, and limit sun exposure while using this product and for a week afterwards.

• Brightening Toner
  Niacinamide compliments BHA (salicylic acid), which exfoliates and clears pores, allowing niacinamide and other actives to penetrate better. Together with other brightening agents, niacinamide enhances the reduction of dark spots for a more radiant complexion. The inclusion of soothing humectants (like aloe) balances the exfoliating action of BHA and prevents irritation, keeping skin hydrated and calm.

• Nia-Correct Serum
  Formulated with niacinamide, this serum focuses on enhancing skin barrier function, reducing moisture loss and improving hydration levels. It also helps minimise enlarged pores, evens out skin tone and boosts radiance.

• Super Fade Serum
  While niacinamide isn’t the main active ingredient here, it plays a crucial supporting role. Super Fade Serum is formulated with 2% Kojic Acid, 5% Vitamin C, 3% Niacinamide, 2% Alpha Arbutin, Hyaluronic Acid, and Licorice Root Extract. It’s a targeted blend that reduces pigmentation, dark spots, and uneven tone while keeping the skin hydrated and soothed.

How to apply:

After cleansing, apply a few drops of your chosen serum to slightly damp skin.

• After cleansing, apply your chosen niacinamide serum or toner to slightly damp skin:

  • Skin Perfecting Tonic: Use at night, 2–3 times per week.

  • Brightening Toner: Use daily, morning or night, before serums.

  • Nia-Correct Serum: Can be used morning and night for hydration, barrier support, and calm skin.

  • Super Fade Serum: Best incorporated at night to target pigmentation, while continuing Nia-Correct Serum in the morning.
    Always follow with moisturiser and SPF during the day.