Glossary
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Ceramides
Ceramides are lipids (fats) that occur naturally in skin –they play an important role in protecting our skin against environmental threats and helping it look younger. They are beneficial for stressed, sensitive, scaly, rough, dry, aged, and sun-damaged skin. The goopy stuff between our skin cells is called extracellular matrix that consists mainly of lipids. And ceramides are about 50% of those lipids (the other important ones are cholesterol with 25% and fatty acids with 15%). Ceramides play an essential role in the structure of superficial epidermal layers. Ceramide 1, or more recently called Ceramide EOP, was the first one...