This polar lipid will enhance skin moisturization and skin protection, ultimately helping to repair sensitive and dry skin. Use ceramides if you want to prevent skin roughness and increase skin hydration.

Many products provide Ceramides but at very low concentration because of the high price of ceramides. You can use this active to provide your skin with significant amounts of Ceramides that will make a difference to your skin. Ceramides are a family of lipid molecules; a ceramide is composed of sphingosine and a fatty acid.

Ceramides are found in high concentrations within the cell membrane of cells, but they have more than a structural role. They are signaling molecules involved in the regulation of cellular differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis.

The skin acts as a protector against water loss and physical, chemical and biological attack. To perform its protective task, the skin must have a resistant barrier. This barrier is provided by the 'horny layer' stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the epidermis. The stratum corneum consists of anuclear flattened cells, the corneocytes, imbedded in a lipid mixture consisting mainly of a lamellar structure of ceramides, cholesterol, and fatty acid. An insufficient formation or loss of skin lipids can result in an increased water loss and increased penetration of harmful compounds from the environment, both of which often cause skin dryness and skin sensitivity. Ceramide inhibits cancer cell growth.

Each tube (1 gram) is enough for about 4 fl oz of cream or lotion at approximately 1% concentration. Use in your favorite cream or add to our Canvas Base Cream, European Cream, or our Sea Kelp Ultramarine.

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• Author: Ruth
  Our dermatologist suggested my husband use Cerave Cream for his dry skin and for me to use the same cream underneath my prescription retinoids. I bought the base cream and added Ceramide to it. I feel we are using a much better cream at a lesser cost. My husband and I are very pleased.
  
  Thank you Skinactives. Ruth