The skincare ingredient guide.
Know what you put on your skin.
The Skandoir Lab is a skincare ingredient guide from Skandoir, a Chennai skincare house. It explains the molecules in Skandoir serums — PDRN, adenosine, copper peptide, niacinamide, the ceramide trio, ectoin and centella — with their history, the research and its limits, and sources. It is educational, not medical advice.
The molecules, the history and the research behind every Skandoir serum and parfum — written plainly, with sources, including where the evidence is still thin.
Last reviewed: 13 October 2026
What The Skandoir Lab covers
Molecule library
One page per ingredient: what it is, its history, the research, the strength that makes sense, and why Skandoir uses it.
Name stories
Why each Skandoir product is called what it is — the colour, the molecule, the number.
- Nº 01 · Amber Next
- Nº 02 · Blac Next
- Nº 03 · Blue Next
- Nº 04 · Gold Next
- KYPHI Pre-launch
- VELKAR · ERION · NUVAEL · Nº V Pre-launch
Buying guides
Honest guides by ingredient, strength and price per ml, with our method published.
- Skandoir serums compared Live
- How to choose a PDRN serum Next
- Niacinamide serums: what % is enough Later
- Hair serums vs hair oil in Indian weather Later
- Reading an INCI list in 5 minutes Later
Perfume school
Families, notes and history — released through the months before the Skandoir Maison launches in Spring 2027.
- The fragrance families Pre-launch
- EDP, EDT, attar: the difference Pre-launch
- Kyphi and the history of incense Pre-launch
- Wearing perfume in Indian heat Pre-launch
- Perfumes that shaped perfumery Pre-launch
Latest on The Skandoir Lab: 2 molecule articles so far.
Skandoir molecules: published and in preparation.
Copper peptide (GHK-Cu)
Three amino acids holding one copper atom; first isolated from human plasma in 1973. Copper gives Nº 03 its natural blue.
In Nº 03
Adenosine
A building block of DNA and of ATP. Published scalp trials in Japan and Korea used 0.75% in an alcohol-glycol leave-on — the strength and vehicle Skandoir uses.
In Nº 01 · Nº 02 · Read the article
Niacinamide
Vitamin B3 in its skin form, one of the most studied cosmetic molecules. Most of the research used 2–5%; Skandoir chose 4%.
In Nº 04
The ceramide trio
Ceramides, cholesterol and fatty acids — the three lipid families of the skin's outer layer. Nº 04 carries all three, not ceramide alone.
In Nº 04
Ectoin
Discovered in micro-organisms that survive Egyptian salt lakes. Its best-known clinical work used 2%, so both Skandoir face serums carry 2%.
How The Skandoir Lab works
Every fact has a link
Research, regulators and named publications — opened and read, not copied from other blogs.
We say where evidence is thin
If a molecule's skin benefit is unproven, the page says so — even for molecules we sell.
We compare fairly
Guides compare ingredients, strength and price per ml. We never rank or criticise other brands' products.
Cosmetic, not medicine
Clinical studies are explained as history. Skandoir serums are cosmetics and never claim to treat anything.