10% Niacinamide Booster
Reviewed by SerumTruth Editorial · Updated July 2026
A well-built niacinamide booster with sensible brightening support, but it is a single headline active at a mid-tier price. It works, and you pay for the polish rather than for more proven actives than a budget 10% niacinamide.
- Evidence21 / 30
Strength of the research behind the key actives
- Niacinamide: moderate evidence
- Score is the average of the key actives’ evidence grades.
- Potency25 / 25
Dosed at studied levels, not fairy-dusted
- Niacinamide (10%): dosed at a clinical, high-end level for its category
- Potency tracks how strongly the actives are dosed, led by the strongest, not how many there are.
- Delivery & stability14 / 20
Delivery tech + packaging that protects fragile actives
- Delivery: standard
- Packaging: tinted glass
- No fragile actives here, so packaging barely moves the score.
- Formulation6 / 10
Disclosure, active breadth, and ingredient generation
- 1 of 1 actives disclose a concentration
- 1 key active (breadth credit caps at 3)
- No current-generation or synergy bonus
- Value8 / 15
What a month of use costs vs. the category
- About $40 per month to use
- $44 for 20 ml, used about twice a day (about 0.3 ml each time), so a bottle lasts about 1.1 months
- Band: $6/month or less earns full marks, $60/month or more hits the floor.
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What’s inside
| Active | Disclosed | Dose |
|---|---|---|
| Niacinamide | 10% | Clinical |
10% niacinamide, disclosed, backed by acetyl glucosamine and a stable vitamin C derivative (ascorbyl glucoside) plus licorice for the appearance of an even tone, in a small frosted dropper bottle. It is a concentrated booster meant to be mixed into a moisturiser or layered thin, so the 20ml bottle lasts longer than it looks. Nothing here is especially fragile.
How it’s delivered
Air- and light-sensitive actives (vitamin C, copper peptides) lose potency fast in the wrong packaging, so delivery and the bottle are scored, not just what’s on the label.
The actives, explained
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