Ceramide Powder

Details of Ceramide:

Name: Ceramide 

CAS No.: 104404-17-3

Molecular formula: C36H71NO3

Molecular Weight: 565.96

Definition: 

The sphingosine of the N-acyl derivatives of fatty acids by a member of the carboxyl group of the amino sphingosine formed by amide bond condensation.

Physiological role of Ceramide:

1. Ceramide is an intermediate metabolite of sphingolipids, particularly in the biological synthesis of an important position. There is only a small amount of platelet outside. Savings with genetic lipid disorders (lipidosis) is one of the Fabry disease patients in the cerebellum, kidney, saving a great deal of ceramide. 

2. Ceramide is effective moisturizing agent, a cell's ability to launch and promote cell metabolism, prompted a regular keratin regeneration. 

Application of Ceramide:

1. Cosmetics 

Ceramide is the most recent years developed a new generation of moisturizing agent is a lipid soluble substance, it constitutes the physical structure of the stratum corneum of skin similar to quickly penetrate the skin, and cuticle of the water, forming a kind of network structure, to seal in moisture. Increase with age and into old age, exist in human skin will gradually reduce ceramide, dry skin and rough skin, skin type and other abnormal symptoms appear is due to a decrease in the amount of ceramide. So to prevent such skin abnormalities, added ceramide is an ideal way. 

2. Functional Foods 

Taking ceramide, absorbed in the small intestine and transferred to the blood, and then transported to the body, so that the skin cells to obtain a good recovery and regeneration, but also allows the body's own neural acid biosynthesis.