Despite a long history of use as a beauty vitamin from within, and despite the knowledge that some B vitamins support collagen formation, the external application of B vitamins is a surprisingly recent phenomenon. Researchers began tinkering with topical B vitamins in the 1960s and showed that some of the vitamin family members have anti-inflammatory properties...

I could tell winter was coming just by the way my skin was feeling. The humid summer evenings seemed to turn to arid winter days that left my skin dry and parched. The cool winter winds coupled with central heating is a double whammy, sucking the moisture from your skin. This often leaves your skin dry, itchy and flaky. If not protected from the drying...