There’s a new anti-aging cream on the market which may work better than all the others. By which we mean: slightly better than nothing at all.
According to Catherine Saint Louis of the Times, StriVectin is releasing a new cream that costs $135 and promises “More science. Less wrinkles.” The “science” refers to a special form of niacin called NIA-114 that developers claim is better than the active ingredient in creams like Retin-A because it isn’t as irritating. The first peer-reviewed study comparing creams with NIA-114 to those without is still to come, but StriVectin researcher Myron Jacobson says the ingredient “will be the dominant skin-care molecule for the next 20 years.”