Candida lipolytica yeast was grown batchwise on glucose medium. Cerebrosides were isolated from the sphingolipid fraction of total lipids using column chromatography and separated into two compounds by high-performance thin-layer chromatography. Glucose was detected as the sole sugar constituent in cerebrosides. The fatty acid composition of cerebrosides was characterised by a predominance of saturated fatty acids and by a high proportion of fatty acids with 16 carbon atoms. The dominant fatty acid was h16:0. The principal long-chain base components of both cerebroside species were trihydroxy bases, 18- and 20-phytosphinosine. The unique characteristic of cerebrosides was the presence of a high proportion of sphingosine (one-fourth of the total long-chain bases), which is a common characteristic of mammalian sphingolipids and rarely occurs in yeast cerebrosides. The ceramide moiety profile of cerebrosides is similar to that of epidermal ceramides, which implies a possibility for their application in care cosmetics.