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10% Niacinamide Serum

10% Niacinamide Serum

The Workhorse Your Routine Has Been Missing. A clarifying serum for visible pores, uneven tone, and the dullness that builds up after 60.

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Niacinamide is one of the most studied ingredients in skincare — and one of the few that does multiple jobs at a clinically meaningful concentration. This serum delivers 10% in a fragrance-free, deeply hydrating base built for the way mature skin behaves now.

Product Description

Most serums promise everything and deliver one thing.

Niacinamide is one of the most studied ingredients in skincare — and one of the few that does multiple jobs at a clinically meaningful concentration. This serum delivers 10% in a fragrance-free, deeply hydrating base built for the way mature skin behaves now.

This one is the opposite of most. Niacinamide — vitamin B3 — has been studied for decades. The research is unusually clear on what it does at the right concentration: it visibly refines pores, evens tone, supports the skin barrier, and softens the dullness that comes from years of sun, hormonal change, and slowed cell turnover.

What makes this formula work for mature skin isn't the niacinamide alone. It's the supporting cast. Sodium hyaluronate replenishes moisture in skin that produces less of its own after menopause. Chamomile calms reactivity in skin that's grown more sensitive over time. A fermented bamboo extract supports the skin's natural barrier — quietly, without the sting of harsher actives.

There's no fragrance. No alcohol. No retinol layered in to do extra work this serum doesn't need.

It's a workhorse, not a headline. And that's exactly what it was built to be.

The Femme Botanicals Standard

Fragrance-free. No added perfume, no essential oils used as scent. Mature skin is more sensitive to fragrance than younger skin — this serum was built without it.

Honest concentration. 10% niacinamide is the level studied for visible results. We don't pad the label with a number we can't deliver.

Supportive, not punishing. No retinol, no acids, no actives that ask your skin to recover overnight. This serum works with the way your barrier behaves now.

Built for layering. Niacinamide is one of the most compatible actives in skincare. This formula is designed to slot into the routine you already trust — not replace it.

Ingredients

Niacinamide (10%)

The most extensively studied form of vitamin B3 in skincare. At a 10% concentration, it works on four things at once: it visibly minimizes the look of pores, evens out hyperpigmentation by interrupting the transfer of pigment to the surface, strengthens the skin barrier, and supports the production of ceramides — the lipids your skin makes less of after 60. This is the active that earns its place in a mature routine.

Sodium Hyaluronate

The smaller-molecule form of hyaluronic acid — meaning it absorbs into the skin more readily rather than sitting on the surface. Post-menopausal skin produces significantly less of its own moisture, and the loss isn't just dryness. It's a loss of plumpness, resilience, and the soft-touch quality of well-hydrated skin. Sodium hyaluronate replenishes what your skin has stopped making on its own.

Chamomile Extract

Mature skin tends to grow more reactive over time — to weather, to actives, sometimes to products that worked for decades and suddenly don't. Chamomile is a long-trusted botanical for calming that reactivity. It doesn't numb the skin or mask irritation. It quietly supports a more even, comfortable feel.

Full Ingredients:

Aqua, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Propanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Lactobacillus/Arundinaria Gigantea Ferment Filtrate, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Allantoin, Propylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide

How to Use

After cleansing, apply 3–4 drops to clean, dry skin in the morning, evening, or both. Follow with your moisturizer.

Layers cleanly with the Dark Spot Serum, the Vitamin C & Mushroom Serum, and the Skin Firming Cream. Niacinamide is one of the most compatible actives in skincare — there are no layering rules to memorize.

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THE FEMME BOTANICALS STANDARD

Fragrance-free. No added perfume, no essential oils used as scent. Mature skin is more sensitive to fragrance than younger skin — this serum was built without it.

Honest concentration. 10% niacinamide is the level studied for visible results. We don't pad the label with a number we can't deliver.

Supportive, not punishing. No retinol, no acids, no actives that ask your skin to recover overnight. This serum works with the way your barrier behaves now.

Built for layering. Niacinamide is one of the most compatible actives in skincare. This formula is designed to slot into the routine you already trust — not replace it.

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What Makes Us Different

OUR FOCUS IS ON WOMEN — OUR COMMITMENT IS TO HER SKIN

Mature skin deserves more than products designed for everyone. Femme Botanicals was built specifically for women who know the difference — between ingredients that perform and ones that merely promise. We deliver what mature skin actually needs: deeper nourishment, renewed resilience, and results you can see and feel.

This isn't skincare adapted for you. It was made for you from the start.

Benefits of Botanicals

Our formulas thoughtfully combine botanical nourishment with advanced skin science to support skin that has evolved beautifully over time.

  • Hyaluronic Acid (Multi-Weight System) A moisture-binding molecule naturally found in the skin. Helps replenish hydration at multiple levels, supporting plumper, more resilient-looking skin.
  • Collagen Support Complex While topical collagen hydrates and softens, our approach focuses on supporting the skin’s own collagen pathways for long-term vitality.
  • Retinol (or Advanced Retinoid Complex) Supports visible smoothness and encourages healthy cellular turnover — helping refine texture while respecting mature skin when properly formulated.
  • Peptides are short chains of amino acids that signal the skin to support firmness and elasticity. Biocompatible and gentle, peptides help reinforce the skin’s natural structure.
  • Ceramides Essential lipids naturally present in the skin barrier. Help strengthen, protect, and reduce moisture loss — especially important as skin becomes thinner and drier.
  • Vitamin C (Stabilized Form)
    Provides antioxidant protection while supporting brighter, more even-looking skin tone — without aggressive irritation. 

Together, these ingredients reflect our philosophy: botanical-forward, science-backed, and formulated to support — not fight — the natural aging process.

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QUESTIONS

Yes. Niacinamide appears third in our ingredient list, just after water and glycerin — the position that supports a 10% concentration. We don't dilute the active to make a label claim sound bigger than the formula delivers.

Yes. The old internet rumor that niacinamide and vitamin C cancel each other out has been thoroughly debunked — it came from a single study using unstable, high-concentration L-ascorbic acid that no modern serum uses. They layer together without issue.

Yes — and they work well together. Niacinamide and the actives in the Dark Spot Serum (hexylresorcinol, kojic acid, azelaic acid) target hyperpigmentation through different pathways. Layering both is often more effective than either alone.

Niacinamide is one of the gentlest active ingredients in skincare. Most women tolerate 10% well, even with reactive skin. If you're starting fresh with niacinamide, you can use it once a day for the first two weeks and build up.

Pore appearance and skin smoothness typically improve within two to four weeks of consistent use. Tone and clarity improvements take longer — usually six to eight weeks of twice-daily application.

Yes. Niacinamide is photostable (it doesn't break down in sunlight) and well-tolerated twice daily.