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Patent Picks—Reactivating Sunscreens; Etched UV Protection; Jaboticaba/Cashew Skin Care; Water-soluble Sunscreens

Patent Picks are taken from publicly available sources and cover recent patents issued or applied for in the cosmetic and personal care industries and relevant peripheral markets. This edition features sun protection and skin repair technologies.

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Unexpected Paths to Sunscreens

Teleportation was once science fiction. Today's it's somewhat of a reality, if you consider how Facebook Live, Facetime, Skype, etc., transport our likenesses through time and space. I sense this indirect path may be the future to sunscreens.

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Modulation of zinc levels and tissue properties: Essentia Biosystems discloses the modulation of zinc levels to improve tissue properties. Methods of altering the properties of tissues were explored by modifying the amount of zinc, which may be in the form of zinc ions, through the use of topical compositions containing one or more zinc-containing components such as salts and/or other zinc compounds or in complexes, particularly zinc acetate. By altering the zinc levels, researchers found they were able to increase or decrease fatty tissue, increase or decrease epidermal thickness, increase elastin content, and prevent or treat gum regression or atrophy.

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Patent Pick: Aerogels Advance Sunscreens

While white, zinc oxide-nosed lifeguards in the movies made some young hearts skip a beat, today's consumers don't go for that look. L’Oréal's new aerogel particle composition may solve this pasty dilemma.

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Latin Americans Need Better Sunscreens

Consumers need extra photoprotection in Latin America. Why? Marcelo de Paula Corrêa explains.

Sunscreens and Other Products

Takagi et al report on the barrier reinforcing function of synthetic compounds called quasi-ceramides.

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IFSCC 2016 Exhibition Features First Ever Innotech-Connect Zone

During the IFSCC exhibition, poster presenters, exhibitors and others were given a stage time to speak to an audience about their work, as well as participate in a Q&A session. In addition, podium presenters mingled with attendees.

L'Oreal's winners represent fields of research focused on pollution, psoriasis and more.

From Pollution to Psoriasis: Meet L'Oréal USA's 2016 Women in Science Fellowship Winners

Program awards $60,000 grants to female scientists to advance their postdoctoral research.

Researchers Investigate Photocontact Allergy in Sunscreens

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have investigated what happens when sun care products break down in the presence of UV radiation to better understand photocontact allergy with this process.

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Detecting Coral Stress in Response to Sunscreens

Metabolomics is at the heart of recent work published in Nature Scientific Reports, wherein an increase in a known steroid in coral was noted in the presence of three common sunscreen ingredients.

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Sunscreen Dynamics and the ‘Reef Safe’ Dance

Protection against damaging pollution, toxins and electromagnetic waves of all lengths is at the forefront of consumers’ minds; not to mention regulators’. But what happens when a topical solution to one of these forces is at odds with another?

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Sunscreen Symposium Day One Enlightens Attendees

Cosmetic scientists from around the world descended on Walt Disney World for the two-day 2015 Sunscreen Symposium featuring skin safety, boosting sunscreen efficacy, testing, formulations and more.

Enhancing Sunscreen Efficacy for Realistic Application

The ability of a sunscreen to protect the skin from erythema is expressed on product labels as the sunburn protection factor (SPF)—i.e., the ratio of the minimum erythema dose (MED) with sunscreen to the MED without protection. Yet in reality, consumers do not apply the same mass/cm2 as is utilized in SPF testing, so maximal protection is not achieved.

Sunscreen Efficacy Validation and Other Topics

Care pH on epidermal permeability: Hachem et al. have studied the effect of pH on epidermal permeability and skin barrier homeostasis.

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Sunscreens May Release Metals, Nutrients Into Seawater

Sunscreen ingredients' impact on marine ecosystems is in the spotlight. Research in Environmental Science & Technology examines if and how sunscreens release various compounds into seawater, and their potential effects.

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Patent Pick: L'Oréal Matches Sunscreens to Skin Tone

Inclusive beauty and customized color cosmetics are combined to create skin tone-matching sunscreens in a recent L'Oréal patent application.

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[video] Weekly Key Search Terms: Alcohol and Sunscreen

In this editorial reconnect, the editors of Cosmetics & Toiletries sit down to recap this week's key search terms, including: alcohol, sunscreen and zinc oxide—plus this week's top article, which is an archived piece that explains the influence of carboxylic acids on hair. Watch now.

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Stirring Debate: Methylene Blue for Reef-safe Sunscreens?

Methylene blue was previously covered for its potential as an alternative "reef safe" sunscreen. This stirred some debate among readers, as the following excerpts from their comments reveal. See what you think.

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