Ceramide NP ceramide 3 is an ingredient. It has a powerful moisturizing and water locking, repairing the barrier, anti-aging effect is quite popular in the skincare world. It is said that with this skincare product, you can hydrate and moisturize, increase skin elasticity, say goodbye to hormonal face and so on. A lot of brands and products use it as a main ingredient. So what is the difference between niacinamide and ceramide?
What is Ceramide?
Ceramide is also known as a nerve sphingolipid. It is a type of ceramide lipid that consists of a long-chain base of ceramide and a fatty acid. Ceramide (commonly known as molecular nails) is a lipid. Ceramide 3 in skin care occurs naturally in the skin. It is a very important component of the skin barrier (stratum corneum) with as much as 40-50%. It creates a waterproof barrier on the surface of the skin. Not only does it help the skin lock in moisture, but it also repairs the skin's lipid barrier.
So what exactly is the skin barrier?
The skin is the body's first physical barrier. Nowadays, the skin barrier is often described as a "brick wall structure". Epidermal cells are the bricks inside. The intercellular lipids are the mortar that holds the bricks together. Beyond the brick wall structure, there is a layer of putty - our sebaceous membrane.
• The Skin's Natural Moisturizer - Sebaceous Membrane
Sebaceous membrane is a transparent film present on the surface of mammalian skin, also known as emulsified lipid film, water-lipid film, mainly a mixture of sebum and sweat, covering the surface of our skin, the thickness of only 0.5 microns. Do not look at ceramide NP ceramide 3 so thin, but plays an important role, can be said to be the body by its own synthesis of natural skin cream.
The sebum film is formed by the sebaceous glands secretion of sebum, sweat glands secretion of sweat and keratinocyte disintegration of lipids emulsified on the surface of the skin stratum corneum, of which the sebum content is the most, followed by sweat, lipids are the least.
The composition of sebum is triglycerides (57.5%), wax esters (26.0%), squalene (12.0%), cholesteryl esters (3.0%) and cholesterol (1.5%), etc.
The Netflix squalene ingredient makes an appearance here. It is the free lipid in our sebaceous membranes. Some people who are deficient in squalene can exhibit dry and itchy skin, poor tolerance, and dysbiosis after the ecological stability of the skin surface is disrupted.
Supplementation of squalene can be very good repair of the skin barrier, increase the skin's ability to lock water.
Then the skin barrier damaged just sebaceous membrane damage? Of course not, there is an important role, that is, we are familiar with the stratum corneum ah!
• The Skin's "Defense Wall" - Stratum Corneum
The stratum corneum is the most representative of the barrier structure. The stratum corneum exists in the epidermis of the skin, and a healthy stratum corneum not only reduces the loss of skin moisture, but also protects against harmful substances from the outside world.
There is a barrier on the outside of our skin, the stratum corneum, which is like a wall and is the most loyal protector of the fragile cells inside. Inside this wall are "bricks" - keratinocytes. Inside the wall are the "bricks" - the keratinocytes - and the "mortar and sand" that builds the bricks - the lipids in the interstices of the keratinocytes. Inside the lipids are ceramides, along with its friends cholesterol, fatty acids, and vitamins E and D. The lipids are the most important part of the keratinocyte's defense.
The purpose of this wall is simple. Keep bad things out and good things in. Once it's broken, the inside suffers.
In a nutshell: ceramides are important. Without ceramides, the skin barrier is damaged.
What Happens When Skin Lacks Ceramides?
Many problematic skins have significantly lower ceramide levels than normal skin. Examples include dermatitis (including hormonal face), psoriasis, eczema, and redness, as well as sensitive skin, dry skin, and rough skin. In addition to these, people under normal circumstances as they age, ceramides will also gradually decrease. This results in dryness, wrinkles and these problems, and the skin naturally ages. Generally speaking, girls with fragile horny layers have their ceramide levels much lower than those of healthy muscles.
The reason is very simple, if the skin does not have enough ceramides, ceramide 3 and niacinamide can not resist the external enemy (not let the bad things in) and lock the water (not let the good things out), the skin as a whole will show a variety of abnormal state.
The Main Function Of "Ceramide":
It plays seven important roles in the stratum corneum of the skin:
• Barrier function:
Ceramides fill in the interstices of the skin's keratinocytes, preventing water from getting out of the skin and foreign substances from getting in, and providing a protective barrier.
• Polymerization:
The use of ceramides significantly enhances adhesion between keratinized cells, improves dryness of the skin and reduces skin flaking.
• Moisturizing effect:
Ceramides can maintain skin moisture by forming a mesh structure in the stratum corneum, which can prevent skin moisture loss.
• Anti-aging effect:
Dry and aging skin by supplementing ceramide, its dry skin condition and fine lines are reduced or disappeared in 1~2 weeks, true wrinkles are significantly reduced, the aging process can be slowed down.
• Anti-allergic effect:
Ceramide skin care products can make the skin stratum corneum thickening, effectively inhibit the invasion of harmful substances triggered by skin allergies, enhance the skin's ability to adapt to the external environment.
• Whitening effect:
Clinical whitening effect shows that ceramide NP ceramide 3 on the face of dryness, redness, make-up infection and other symptoms have an improved effect, but also inhibit the production of melanin, with obvious beauty effect.
• Water retention:
Ceramide is known as the "king of hydration", is 16 times the moisturizing effect of hyaluronic acid, very easy to be absorbed by the skin, and can promote the penetration of other nutrients.
How are ceramides lost?
• Age-related loss:
Like skin moisture, ceramides gradually diminish with age, leading to a variety of dryness, dry lines, dry sensitivities, etc. After the age of 30, ceramide loss accelerates even more. After 30, ceramide loss accelerates, and by the time you're 40, your facial ceramides may be only 37% of what they were when you were 20. In other words, this "Super Star" can't stay with us for a long time.
Do you feel the tension of age?
• Synthetic damage:
Sub-healthy skin results in compromised endogenous ceramide synthesis and disruption of the skin's barrier function.
• Environmental factors:
Dryness, cold and sun exposure can also lead to a decrease in the ability to synthesize ceramides.
• Lifestyle factors:
Excessive use of cleansing products mechanically damages the skin's "walls" and weakens the stratum corneum, resulting in redness.
• Chemical irritation:
Daily application of maintenance containing a large number of chemical ingredients, ceramide is easy to lose by stimulation.
• Emotional stress:
Stay up late, mental stress or seasonal state, the adrenal gland secretes too much corticosteroid, increased oil, ceramide synthesis is blocked.
• Bad Habits:
Frequent hot baths lead to excessive dissolution of the skin's oil content, ceramide will accelerate the loss.
• Oral medications:
Regular use of medications such as retinoids will inhibit epidermal cell proliferation, which will also cause ceramide loss.
How to replenish ceramides?
Because ceramide is found in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, it can be replenished directly through application. Compared to skincare products with only lipid-based ingredients, skincare products with added ceramides will have a better and longer-lasting moisturizing effect. Because ceramide itself is a part of the skin's stratum corneum, ceramide NP ceramide 3 can be injected directly into the inner layers of the skin to help repair the skin barrier, thus enhancing the skin's natural water locking power and curing all kinds of sensitivity problems caused by dry skin.
What are ceramides called in the ingredient list?
Ceramides are categorized into: naturally occurring ceramides (Ceramide, 9 types), phytoceramides (Phytoceramides), ceramide-like ceramides (Psuedoceramides) and synthetic ceramides (synthetic naturally occurring ceramides).
A table is attached to help you identify the ceramides in the ingredient list, so that you don't lose track of them by changing their names.
• The difference between niacinamide and ceramide
The biggest difference between ceramide 3 niacinamide two is whether or not the body can synthesize them on its own. Keep in mind that ceramide is a substance synthesized by our body on its own, while niacinamide is a derivative of vitamin B3. And the two have different roles. Ceramide is mainly used for moisturizing, while niacinamide is used for whitening and moisturizing. So, in essence, they are not and cannot be the same substance. If I have to say that the two have the same thing, I think it is that both are high-end skincare products in the regular guests.
• The role of niacinamide and ceramide
In addition to moisturizing, ceramides also have anti-allergic and anti-aging effects. It is a skin care barrier for the skin. Ceramide and niacinamide cream can thicken the stratum corneum, improve the skin's water holding capacity, so as to reduce wrinkles, increase the elasticity of the skin, delay the role of skin aging.
Niacinamide, on the other hand, in addition to whitening, can accelerate skin metabolism, promote the shedding of melanin-containing keratinocytes, can allow the role of melanin has been produced, so that it is like the epidermal cells to do the transfer. It also promotes the synthesis of epidermal proteins and improves skin texture.
That is because niacinamide has an anti-aging effect, so for some of their own skin younger fairies niacinamide may be a little too much, so also relatively young fairies or to reduce the use of niacinamide.
Can niacinamide and ceramide be used together?
The two ingredients niacinamide with ceramide NP ceramide 3 can be used together? In fact, it is not difficult to see from the role. There is no direct conflict between the two, and they are both more skin-friendly. Used together can have a better skin care effect, so these two ingredients can be used without fear.
Niacinamide is biased towards the regulation of skin color, snow skin effect, more suitable for oily skin, oil within the dry with the use of hydration products.
Ceramides tend to hydrate and repair the skin barrier effect, more suitable for skin damage, skin dehydration crowd use.
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