Ceramide-centric skin care products to add to your daily lineup
Your skin’s gonna love 'em
Ceramides are kind of amazing. Natural-occurring lipids (AKA one of the good fats), they help to reinforce and strengthen the skin’s natural barrier function, preventing moisture loss and improving skin’s overall hydration and moisture retention in the long run.
These handy little dudes make up over 50 per cent of skin’s composition and act like cement, keeping your skin cells firmly packed together like bricks in a wall. And this wall just so happens to also aid in preventing moisture loss and environmental damage. Pretty neat stuff if you ask us.
The great thing about ceramides is that there's a slew of skin care products available that incorporate their skin-loving superpowers. Here’s a few of our favourites...
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Briar is the Beauty Editor at BEAUTYcrew. Her 'down for anything' attitude has resulted in more than a handful of hair transformations, and she doesn't mind being used as a guinea pig for the industry's most unusual products and treatments. Her work has also appeared on Refinery29, Girlfriend and beautyheaven.