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Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine helps your skin create more ceramides. This ingredient has been shown to boost skin hydration and improve the skin barrier.
Your skin has an outermost layer called the stratum corneum. This is known as your skin barrier.
Your skin barrier consists of cholesterol (25%), free fatty acids (15%), and ceramides (50-60%). A healthy skin barrier is the key to hydrated and plump skin. Your skin is able to retain more moisture with a nourished barrier.
Although small, the skin barrier prevents bacteria and other bad things from going into our bodies. A damaged skin barrier can lead to itchy and dry skin, acne, or bacterial/viral/fungal skin infections.
Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine tells your skin to create more ceramides. This helps fortify your skin barrier. Having a strong skin barrier leads to hydrated and healthy skin. More good news? You don't need a high amount of this ingredient to see benefits.
Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine is created from a chemical reaction using an amino alcohol (dihydrosphingosine) and a fatty acid palmitic acid (2- 11 bromohexadecanoic acid).
Other ingredients that tell your skin to create more ceramide:
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Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine is a rare cosmetic ingredient, with about 0.1% of the products in our database containing it.
What it does:
Where it's used
Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine is most often found as ingredient number 22 within an ingredient list.
These are the categories of products that use Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine the most:
References
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Hydroxypalmitoyl-sphinganine
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03029#:~:text=This%20barrier%20function%20is%20ascribed,free%20fatty%20acids%20(FFAs).
- https://www.cir-safety.org/sites/default/files/cerami032015rep.pdf
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3627015/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190962214010226
Products with Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine
CosIng Data
- CosIng ID: 56819
- INCI Name: HYDROXYPALMITOYL SPHINGANINE
- All Functions: Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning