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If you were to name your skin care goals, having healthy-looking skin that feels soft and smooth is at the top of the list for most. As it turns out, the skin care products—from body lotion and eye cream to lip balm—that help achieve this goal tend to have one thing in common: ceramides. Though this skin-nourishing ingredient is a popular one, you might not know much about it and how it actually works to benefit your skin. We’re here to fill you in! Read on as we cover questions such as:
Ceramides are a type of lipids that is found naturally in your body and makes up about 50% of the outer layer of your skin, the epidermis. They act as a critical building block for your skin. “Ceramides essentially act like glue to hold your skin cells together,” says board-certified dermatologist and LovelySkin CEO Dr. Joel Schlessinger. “They contribute to healthy skin barrier function by maintaining proper hydration.”
Having the proper level of ceramides in your skin helps your skin feel and look healthy, smooth and hydrated. “Your body actually makes fewer natural ceramides as you age, and that ceramide loss can show in the form of dry, irritated skin,” Dr. Schlessinger says. Your skin can also suffer ceramide loss from exposure to too much hot water, cold weather or dry air. “Scrubbing or over-exfoliating can also deplete ceramide levels in your skin,” Dr. Schlessinger says.
Luckily, synthetically made ceramides in skin care products can help replenish those lost natural ceramides in your skin. The skin care benefits of ceramides include increasing moisture, replenishing your skin barrier and helping skin look and feel healthier and firmer. “Ceramide skin care also can benefit people with eczema or psoriasis,” Dr. Schlessinger says.
Thanks to their well-known skin benefits, ceramides can be found in all sorts of skin care products, from face cleansers to lip balms to body lotions. Here are a few dermatologist-approved choices to help you experience ceramides and all their skin benefits.
If the skin on your face is lacking ceramides, it might show in the form of flakiness or dry, rough patches. Packed with glycolipids and phospholipids, which are ceramide derivatives, this reparative face serum helps replenish your skin’s moisture barrier, smooth scaly skin and reduce the appearance of fine lines.
This anti-aging facial moisturizer features a formula that mimics your skin’s natural lipid composition with 2% ceramides, 4% natural cholesterol and 2% fatty acids. Together with vitamin E and essential oils, these ingredients work together to help improve your skin’s elasticity and help decrease the aging effects of free radical damage. In a lipidomic study, this formula resulted in a 57% increase in ceramides.
This ceramide-packed skin care duo delivers serious benefits by targeting fine lines, wrinkles and uneven texture. Both the DEJ Face Cream and DEFK Eye Cream contain ceramides combined with peptides, vitamin C and antioxidant-rich goji berry extract to improve skin tone, texture and appearance. Both products are also entirely fragrance-free as well.
Facial cleansing is the cornerstone of any skin care regimen and using a product that cleanses effectively without stripping your skin of its natural moisture is really important. This foaming facial wash uses a patented TFC8 system to deliver active ingredients into your skin as you cleanse. Ceramides help support a healthy moisture barrier while niacinamide helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and vitamin C supports collagen production.
The skin on your body can benefit from the nourishing powers of ceramides too with this innovative body cream. It relies on ceramides and lipids to restore your skin’s moisture barrier while a blend of proprietary molecules (Dermatan Sulfate Analog, Heparan Sulfate Analog and Chondroitin Sulfate Analog) helps improve skin firmness by promoting skin repair from within. In a clinical study, all users saw improvement in skin dryness with eight weeks of use and 67% of users showed an improvement in crepey skin after twelve weeks.
A potent ceramide complex makes this hand cream just the right pick to rescue dry skin that’s been stripped of moisture from frequent handwashing. With a quick-absorbing, non-greasy texture, this formula also contains vitamin E and daisy flower extract to help soften skin and reduce the appearance of dark spots over time. The 1.69-ounce tube is just the right size to carry in your handbag or backpack. You can also tuck it in a drawer near the kitchen or bathroom sink, so it's handy when your skin needs a pick-me-up.
This nourishing balm has all the soothing active ingredients of an anti-aging skin care serum but for your lips. Ceramides, peptides and shea butter combine with soothing oils (sea buckthorn, sunflower seed and avocado) to help repair chapped lips and restore plumpness, all with a colorless, non-sticky finish.
Are you curious about other beneficial skin care ingredients? You can learn more about niacinamide and its impressive benefits for skin on the LovelySkin Blog.
Aaron serves as Editor at LovelySkin. Since graduating from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2016 with degrees in Creative Writing and English, he has immersed himself in the beauty industry. When he’s not writing about the latest beauty trends, he spends time cuddling his dogs, scouring antique stores, playing tennis and hiking.
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