🧴 Cosmetics and Skin Care

1. Moisturizing and Barrier Repair: As a core ingredient, used in moisturizers and repair serums to replenish the skin’s stratum corneum lipids and repair the damaged barrier. This is the most mainstream and mature application, usually formulated with cholesterol and fatty acids in specific proportions.

2. Anti-aging and Anti-wrinkle: Used in anti-aging face creams and eye creams to improve wrinkles by enhancing skin cohesion, reducing moisture loss, and protecting against UV damage. Human trials have shown an effect on improving crow’s feet.

3. Soothing and Anti-allergic: Used in skincare products targeting sensitive skin, atopic dermatitis, and other problem skin conditions to help thicken the stratum corneum and reduce redness and irritation.

💊 Pharmaceutical Industry

Skin and Mucous Membrane Repair Preparations:

Ointments or medical repair dressings used to treat atopic dermatitis, eczema, and other skin barrier damage conditions. Emphasizing physiological repair, they are highly compatible with skin structure and have low irritation.

🔬 Medical Research Fields

1. Anti-tumor Research: As a lipid signaling molecule, it is being studied for potential therapeutic applications in inhibiting tumor cells by inducing apoptosis.

2. Cardiovascular and Inflammation Research: Its association with vascular endothelial cell function and the regulation of inflammatory responses is being investigated at the cellular level.