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Panthenol (Pro-vitamin B5)

Panthenol · Dexpanthenol · Pantothenic Acid · Calcium PantothenateSoothing

Vitamin B5 — adds moisture and helps irritated skin repair its barrier faster.

What it does

Your skin turns it into vitamin B5. It eased redness caused by a detergent, but not sunburn redness in a sunscreen test.

The evidence, graded

expert consensusFine together. Panthenol has real evidence for calming irritated skin, but that trial's irritant was a detergent, not a skincare active. No source here applied it with a retinoid or an acid, so using it to ease one is untested rather than proven.Proksch 2002 · Journal of Dermatological Treatment ↗

Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.

Also known as

vitamin b5

Pairs worth knowing

Retinol · works together ↗Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) · works together ↗Ceramides · works together ↗Hyaluronic Acid · works together ↗

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