What Are Ceramides?
7 Excellent Facts You Need to Know About Ceramides
The Complete Guide to the Ingredient That Holds Your Skin Barrier Together
Key Takeaways
✔ Ceramides are lipids that make up roughly half of your skin barrier’s structure, they are what actually holds your skin cells together.
✔ Ageing, sun exposure, over-exfoliation and environmental stress can strip away more than 30% of your barrier’s natural lipid content over time.
✔ A compromised barrier shows up as sensitivity, redness, dehydration, flaking and a general loss of resilience.
✔ The most effective ceramide formulations replace lipids in the same 3:1:1 ceramide-to-cholesterol-to-fatty-acid ratio the skin naturally uses, not a random blend.
✔ Ceramides work best as...