Is Ceramide 2 natural?

This ingredient is made commercially by more than one route, and ISO 16128 scores the feedstock actually used. Without a supplier certificate of origin the value cannot be claimed.

Premium biomimetic ceramides use a yeast-fermentation-derived sphingoid base acylated with a natural fatty acid. Lower-cost mass-market ceramides are usually built by total chemical synthesis from petrochemical starting materials.

A lipid that mimics fats naturally found in skin, used to condition skin and hair. It can be made from fermentation-derived building blocks or by chemical synthesis, so its origin varies by supplier.

CosIng definition: Ceramide 2 (Retired) is the N-acylated sphingolipid having the erythro structure that conforms generally to the formula, where m has a value ranging from 14 to 28 and n has a value ranging from 10 to 16. The INCI Name, Ceramide 2, originally developed in 1997, was designated with a retired status in 2014. For an interim period of time, trade name assignments formerly published with the INCI Name Ceramide 2 will be retained in the retired monograph, and also published with the new name assignment as either Ceramide NS or Ceramide NG.