How to Hydrate Skin With Ceramides

The importance of hydrated skin is easy to understand; just remember the last time you felt your skin was dry. Supporting skin hydration on a daily basis is especially important, because hydration keeps our skin firm, and skin can lose some of its firmness with age.^[1]

Thankfully, there are a couple convenient ways to support your skin hydration, including our Skin Hydration + Ceramides Gummies, which use a clinically studied ingredient containing ceramides^◆ that supports skin hydration in 15 days and helps with skin firmness and smoothness as you age.^‡†

Let’s break down why skin hydration is important for healthy skin, what exactly ceramides are, what they do, and how to incorporate them into your skincare regime.

Why Skin Hydration is Essential for Healthy Skin

Skin hydration and healthy skin: while it might seem obvious that they’re linked, let’s dig into exactly why and how.

It’s common for people to develop drier or more dehydrated skin with age for a number of reasons, including the natural aging process (skin has less natural ceramide content as we age), along with lifestyle factors like such as drinking too little water, spending too much time in the sun or a dry environment, or smoking. Sometimes, certain soaps and hot water can also exacerbate the skin.^[2] That experience leads to many looking for techniques on how to hydrate skin .

Keeping up proper hydration by drinking water in adequate amounts supports skin hydration.^[3] To support your skin health, try using cool water, milder soaps, and humidifiers to ease the dehydrated skin that is common with age.

Look to include food for skin health in your diet as another avenue of support. This includes nutrient dense foods that include vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and biotin. Foods rich in skin nutrients include leafy greens and citrus fruits, along with nuts and seeds.^†

If you’re looking for a way to support your skin hydration from the inside in a convenient supplement form, you may be interested in ceramides.^†

What Are Ceramides?

Ceramides may be best known in topical beauty products, so if you haven’t seen them in supplement form before, you’re in good company. Thankfully, they’re easy to understand. Ceramides are a type of lipid, or fat, that play an essential role in our skin hydration by creating a moisture barrier in the top layer of our skin. This skin barrier functions as a way to help preserve skin hydration, keeping water inside the skin.^[4]

Imagine your skin cells as a glass of water in the sun: if the water is directly exposed to the sun, it’s likely to evaporate into the atmosphere, but if it's covered by a barrier, the evaporation is slowed, retaining the moisture within the container. By supporting your body’s ceramide content, you can support your skin hydration level from within.^[5] Let’s now look into some of the benefits ceramides can provide.

Key Benefits of Ceramides

The primary benefit of ceramides is their role in supporting skin hydration. The ceramides in our Skin Hydration + Ceramides Gummies are a clinically studied ingredient that, in 15 days, supports skin hydration for adults with dry skin. Including ceramides in your daily routine can help support your skin health from the inside.^†

But that isn't the only benefit you may notice from ceramide supplementation. Ceramides also support skin firmness over time for adults with dry skin. It’s not uncommon for skin to become less firm with age, particularly when your skin's moisture levels drop. Our skin cells operate kind of like a water balloon; when they’re hydrated and filled with water, they are less flimsy. Ceramides help lock in moisture, which supports skin firmness.^[5] The Ceramides ingredient in our gummies is clinically studied to support skin smoothness and firmness as you age.^†

How to Incorporate Ceramides into Your Routine

Nature Made's Skin Hydration + Ceramides Gummies are convenient way to support beauty from within with two daily tasty peach flavored gummies. Each daily dose provides a clinically studied wheat seed extract ingredient containing ceramides to support skin hydration in 15 days and help with skin smoothness and firmness as you age.^†

One important note: our ceramides ingredient is from a wheat seed extract. The wheat in this extract has been processed to allow this food to meet the Food and Drug Administration's requirements for gluten-free food. Our ceramides supplement also provides 100 mg of vitamin C and 2500 mcg of biotin, which are both important skin health nutrients that support healthy aging.^†

Ceramide supplements, as with most other supplements, are best when taken consistently. One of the best ways to take a supplement consistently is to pair it with a daily meal. Taking your ceramide supplement at the same time, with the same meal, every day does a lot of the legwork required to build a routine, as you are just attaching it to an already existing one.

Ceramides are far from the only skin care products that support your beauty from within. Nature Made offers a variety of hair, skin and nails supplements to help support your natural beauty from within. Our Hair-Skin-Nails Gummies provide a convenient source of biotin to support healthy hair, skin, and nails, along with vitamin C for antioxidant support.^†

Vitamin C is also a key component for supporting collagen production in skin. Collagen is a connective tissue that provides structure and support to our skin, and it's the most abundant protein in the body. If you're looking for ways to supplement your body's supply of vitamin C, our Vitamin C Collection offers a wide variety of supplements in different forms and dosages to suit your needs and preferences.^†

It’s best to discuss ceramides and other supplements with a doctor or trusted healthcare professional before adding them to your routine. They can help by providing personalized guidance tailored to your unique needs and health goals.

Unlocking Beauty from Within

You can support your beauty from within by taking steps to hydrate your skin, both by drinking adequate water and considering supplementation. You can help support skin hydration, firmness, smoothness, with clinically studied ceramides.^◆ By including a ceramide supplement in your skincare routine, promoting skin hydration can be convenient, and our Skin Hydration + Ceramides Gummies makes it enjoyable too.^†

It’s important to remember that consistency is key; you will see the best ceramides benefits by supplementing consistently over time for skin hydration support. Support your skin hydration from within—shop our skin hydration supplement today! Nature Made is the #1 Pharmacist Recommended Vitamin & Supplement Brand.*

References:

1. Park S. Biochemical, structural and physical changes in aging human skin, and their relationship. Biogerontology. 2022;23(3):275-288. doi:10.1007/s10522-022-09959-w
2. National Institute on Aging. Skin Care and Aging. Skin Care and Aging. Published 2025. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/skin-care/skin-care-and-aging
3. Popkin BM, D'Anci KE, Rosenberg IH. Water, hydration, and health. Nutr Rev. 2010;68(8):439-458. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2010.00304.x
4. Yong TL, Zaman R, Rehman N, Tan CK. Ceramides and Skin Health: New Insights. Exp Dermatol. 2025;34(2):e70042. doi:10.1111/exd.70042
5. What Do Ceramides Do for Your Skin? Cleveland Clinic. Published July 19, 2023. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/ceramides

‡For adults with dry skin

◆Clinically Studied Wheat Seed Extract

* Based on a survey of pharmacists who recommend branded vitamins and supplements