Ceramide sources – Luonnollinen, Synthetic, Fermentation

Ceramide has three sources: natural extract(animal-based, plant-based), synthetic biology, and microbial fermentation.

Here let’s have a look at what sources are.

Ceramide Sources

1. Animal extract Ceramide powder(abandoned)

In 1884, German physician Thudichum discovered the presence of sphingomyelin in the human brain. After that, people found rich ceramide sources in animal brains, such as cow brains, and then animal extract ceramide burns.

Kuitenkin, Animal extraction is not easy to control the purity and guarantee the safety. It cannot prevent pathogenic factors, allergens, and other harmful impurities that mix in during the extraction process. Since the outbreak of “mad cow disease” in 1986, animal extract ceramide products have disappeared from the market and been replaced by plant extract ceramides.

2. Plant extract Ceramide powder

Naturally extracted ceramides mainly come from plants such as Oryza rice bran, corn, wheat, and konjac. The best Ceramide source is oryza rice, studies compare different plant-based ceramide for skin health effects, and rice ceramide shows the best result.

3. Synthetic Ceramide powder

Synthetic ceramide has a structure similar to natural ceramide. Kuitenkin, due to some structural differences, after entering the stratum corneum human beings ceramide does not accept it. Therefore, the skin cannot fully absorb or utilize the synthetic ceramides, and the repair and moisturizing effects are not ideal. Ceramide E and arachidamide MEA are both ceramide-like sources.

4. Microbial fermentation

Microbial fermentation is a common method for preparing ceramide in recent years, that method uses Saccharomyces, fermenting it under a certain environment to obtain phytosphingosine. Add fatty acids to synthesize ceramide substances. For ceramide sources, the fermentation method can obtain a high content over 95%, but another problem is safety issue.

The fermentation method, like the pickled food, needs to go through a long storage and fermentation process. During this period, a lot of mold will grow, which may cause safety issues.

Summary

Above all, believe you have a basic understanding of Ceramide sources.

Most of the common ones on the market are artificially synthesized. Although the effect is not ideal, but its production cost is low, and capacity is high. So the synthesis of Ceramide occupies a large market share.

Strictly speaking, although ceramides have different sources, the best for skin is oryza rice bran ceramide, and only natural extract plant ceramides have the real effects of ceramides.

There are too many sources in the market, so choose the better one, it will benefit your skin health. Otherwise, it will have safety issues which bring side effects.

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