Ceramides
The lipids that make up roughly half of the skin barrier's structure. Applied topically — especially alongside cholesterol and fatty acids in physiological ratios — they replace what cleansing and age deplete, cutting water loss and reactivity. They are the backbone of barrier-repair formulas.
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Ceramides by the numbers.
We've catalogued 448 products that use ceramides, most often in moisturizers (181 products) but also across serums and body cares. Formulations carrying it score 79/100 on average (well above the catalog norm); the strongest is CeraVe Moisturizing Cream at 92/100.
Of those, 239 products score 80 or higher in our analysis. It co-occurs most with Niacinamide (207 shared formulas) and Hyaluronic Acid (175 shared formulas). The median price of a ceramides product here is $26.
