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Ceramides

ceramides benefits in skin care

Dermatologist explains what you need to know about ceramides and skin care.

Ceramides are important for healthy skin. Your skin makes ceramides and you can boost this ceramide content in your skin when you use skin care products that contain them.

How ceramides benefit skin.

The epidermis and ceramide benefits in skin care

Ceramides are part of the mortar that holds you dead skin cell layer together. This layer, called the stratum corneum, is your ‘waterproofing’ barrier. It sits on top of the living layer of cells in the granular, stratum spinosum and basal layers of the epidermis. Your stratum corneum is important for keeping your skin supple, protecting it from moisture loss, irritation, dryness and chapping.

The dead skin cell stratum corneum structure of your skin is made of keratin protein ‘bricks’ imbedded in a mortar of lipids that include ceramides.

50% of your skin's lipid 'mortar' is made of up of ceramides - ceramides are important for keeping your skin supple and your skin barrier healthy. - Dermatologist Dr. Bailey

These precious ceramide lipids can become damaged and lost with age and harsh skin exposures, leading to skin fragility, dryness and inflammation.

Benefits of adding ceramides in your skin care.

Topical application of these skin-identical lipids has the potential to restore lost skin lipids essential for skin barrier health. This, in turn, helps to increase skin hydration, reduce skin moisture loss, and prevent skin inflammation.

Add products to your skin care routine that contain ceramides and you will help to restore these important lipids that can be damaged and lost over time.

Dr. Bailey Skin Care Top Ceramide Containing Skin Care Products

best face moisturizer cream with ceramides

My top choice for adding ceramides to skin care is with my Daily Face Cream for Dry to Normal Skin. Use this as your daily face cream to HYDRATE skin and replenish lost ceramides.

Also find ceramides in my Sheer Strength Pure Physical Tinted Matte Sunscreen.

best sunscreen with ceramides

References

Meckfessel Matthew H, Brandt Staci, The structure, function, and importance of ceramides in skin and their use as therapeutic agents in skin-care products, JAAD 2014 Vol 71, Issue 1, 177-184 

Vavrova K, et. al., Ceramides in the skin barrier, European Pharmaceutical Journal, 2017 64 (2); 28-35 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/afpuc/64/2/article-p28.xml

Imokawa G. Stratum corneum lipids serve as a bound-water modulator. J Invest Dermatol. 1991 Jun;96(6):845-51.

Cho HJ. Quantitative study of stratum corneum ceramides contents in patients with sensitive skin. J Dermatol. 2011 Oct 31.