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Editor's Note: Elementary Beauty

As I write this on Pi Day, I’m feeling philosophical. In essence, the quest for physical beauty implicates three main processes: protecting, nurturing/maintaining and adorning our physical being. This issue encompasses several of these and looks to what's next.

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Photostability Leads the Way: Formulating Safer Sunscreens

The need to prevent skin from UV damage is well-understood but the most effective way to achieve this is not. Here, a novel photostabilizer is presented in a test pump sunscreen spray formula as part of a total photoprotection strategy.

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Total Exposure: The Future of Sun Care is Full Light Protection

History has revealed what has become well-known today: the human skin requires sun protection. But are UV filters enough? Here, the authors discuss the negative effects caused by other wavelengths. In addition, they propose a full light defense strategy.

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In Light of Exposure: Understanding Avobenzone Part II, Application

Avobenzone is a widely used organic UV filter. Its dynamic nature and unique properties are responsible for its widespread use and forms. This second in a two-part series considers avobenzone’s behavior with other sunscreens and in formulas; part one reviewed its characteristics and behavior in solvents.

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Patent Pick: L'Oréal Steps Up the Sunscreen Game

Pop Quiz: What does it take to achieve a high SPF, high UV-A rated sunscreen within the U.S. FDA's sunscreen filter constraints? This isn't a game; it's the focus of a new patent application from L'Oréal. Read on to learn more.

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Editor's Note: Discontinuity and Your Inner Innovator

One innovative mash-up has been capturing consumer dollars: multifunctional color cosmetics. Whether fortified with SPF or moisturizing properties, makeup with added benefits is driving color sales. In relation, this month, we've created our own color and sun mash-up.

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Are Your Sunscreens Infra-ready? New In vitro Method Puts Data Behind the Claims

Considering more and more sun care products are claiming infrared (IR) protection, it is important to standardize the parameters by which they are evaluated. Since IR-A and IR-B are the most implicated in skin damage, a test method was developed based on these wavelengths, as described here.

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In Light of Exposure: Understanding Avobenzone Part I, Characterization

Avobenzone is a widely used UV-absorbing organic filter. Its dynamic nature and photophysical and photochemical properties are responsible for its widespread use. This first in a two-part series reviews its inherent characteristics and behavior in solvents; part two will consider its behavior with other sunscreens and in formulas.

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[podcast] Lauder Eyes Infrared Skin Damage

Infrared radiation penetrates deeper than UV and causes skin damage. What can be done to mitigate its effects? In this podcast, Tom Mammone, Ph.D., of The Estée Lauder Companies and Clinique Labs, explains. Listen now!

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Patent Pick: Rubberized Foam Bounces UV Rays Away

LG Household inventors are bouncing around something new: a natural way to incorporate organic UV filters into foam-type formulations. A new patent explains.

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Eat Your Way to Better Sun Protection

If you're an erratic eater or midnight snacker, you could be putting your skin in greater UV danger. A new study suggests abnormal eating patterns upset your body's circadian rhythm and all the skin-protective elements that march to it.

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Patent Pick: Fullerene Sunscreens for Next-gen Protection

Simplify, simplify, simplify. Poetic words on life from Thoreau, and a more recent edict from consumers—for product labels, that is. This notion is echoed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in a new sunscreen patent application.

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SGS To Acquire Harrison Research Laboratories

“This acquisition expands SGS’s consumer & retail service portfolio into the clinical testing sector for cosmetic and personal care products in the USA. It is an excellent complement to our existing laboratory testing capability in New Jersey.”

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New Passion for Passion Fruit: Sun Protection

Thai researchers have juicy news on passion fruit—apparently, extract from its seeds can boost the SPF levels in makeup. A recent paper published in the Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences explains.

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Patent Pick: Precursors Preempt Sun's Strike

Beiersdorf inventors are making offensive moves in the sun protection game. In a new patent application, the company explores how to hustle the avobenzone precursor 4-(tert-butyl)-4'-methoxydibenzoylmethane into action.

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Guiding Sunscreen Traffic Across the Globe

Sunscreens are classified and regulated differently around the world. For instance, the United States considers sunscreens as OTC products, while Canada has a two-part classification system; other places classify sunscreens as cosmetics. Labeling and registering differ worldwide as well. In some cases, labels require certain Drug Facts or safety registration numbers, among others. This article reviews these differences.

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Patent Pick: Shiseido Sets Sights on Sun

Whitening may be a preference for skin care actives, especially in the East, but when it comes to sun protection, it's all about transparency. That's where this Shiseido invention is 'clearly' focused.

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Don’t Get Burned: Link between Melanin-Rich Skin & Sunburn

A recent study shows a correlation between melanin-rich skin and sunburn, raising concern of skin cancer prevention perceptions.

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