Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the world.
The Food and Drug Administration says the ingredient, bemotrizinol, met the agency’s standards for protecting from dangerous ultraviolet rays while causing little irritation or absorption into the skin. The ingredient is safe for adults and children 6 months and older, the agency stated in a release.
Bemotrizinol will initially be sold in the U.S. by the Dutch manufacturer DSM Nutritional Products under the brand name Parsol Shield, which is expected to launch later in the year. After an 18-month exclusivity period, the ingredient will be available for use by other manufacturers.
Yeah, Korean skincare is lightyears ahead of the US and this is one of the reasons. The FDA has held up sunscreen ingredients for a long time. This is good news!
It’s not good news because no one is regulating shit.
Scammers will claim to be selling this knowing US consumers won’t ask questions if they expect it to be different. Some jackass will just use cooking oil and sell it for $20 a can.
If we got Korean quality sunscreen, yeah, that’d be great.
But if you think that’s what’s happening here…
You can get Asian stuff which already have a trusted reputation.
The most advanced sunscreen on the market is La Roche Posay’s UVmune which have a proprietary ingredient called Mexoryl 400. This blocks ultra long UVA (380 to 400 nm) which penetrates deepest into the skin and makes up 30% of the UV radiation that reaches us. It is the primary culprit behind deep cellular damage, skin sagging, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation spots like melasma.
The UVmune line contains Bemotrizinol but it also has several other UV filters including Mexoryl 400, so it cannot be sold in the US. If you want to get it in the US you have to import it from Europe. Could be worth it if you’re interested in wrinkling a bit slower. It can be purchased at Soin en Nature.
As a dude so I try to keep it simple, though I know most dudes just use body lotion on their face as I once did. I combine this sunscreen with a retinol product and Korean aloe gel and have been happy with the results overall. Undid some of the accelerated aging I experienced during the pandemic.
Also a dude, also a fan of La Roche Posay’s UVmune. I live on the surface of the sun, USA, and I would prefer to not look like an old leather chair by the end of the decade.
This stuff is great and quick to add in a morning routine. Do it gents, the sun is more damaging than you think.
PS it’s pretty cheap on French beauty hub.
You can smear all the chemicals you want, but the real solution is covering skin with summer clothing, hats.
Are the long term effects of these compounds known? Of course not. DHA was tested and safe in sunscreens until it wasn’t.
Creams will not reverse ageing. You know what reverses aging? Nothing.
Methoxypropylamino Cyclohexenylidene Ethoxyethylcyanoacetate
If you want to smear that compound with a reactive cyano group on your skin, good luck.
You know what else has a cyano group? Cyanocobalamin, which you may recognize as vitamin B12.
Lots of pseudoscience and baseless fearmongering online. Please try not to propagate it.
Tretinoin reverses the appearance of aging. It’s efficacy was established by decades of multi-center, double-blind, vehicle-controlled human trials, supplemented by reproducible histological/microscopic evidence. It’s use is supported by the gold standard of and most heavily scrutinized dermatologic evidence in the field of topical skincare.
Are they endocrine disruptors though?
That is bad by the way.
Bemotrizinol is not an endocrine disruptor. Why are you pushing this everywhere instead of looking into this yourself?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12317922/
It sure sounds like one. I will look it up at some point, but I don’t take the government’s word for it, because I wasn’t born yesterday, as you seem to have been here.
You’ve completely lost the point that the FDA isn’t the first governing body to approve this ingredient and their approval of it doesn’t mean I think it’s more safe.
This has been used in other countries for decades. There’s a lot of research on it out there. Stop pushing conspiracy theories for things that help reduce cancer.
Fuck all the way off on dismissing toxics as “conspiracy theories” as if our governments protect us. What fucking world do you live in?
In truth, you lost all credibility with that dumbass comment.
You’re the one demanding others do research for you while simultaneously casting doubt.
The info is out there, I linked you a reputable study, and you’re more content to spread fear than actually learn about it.
I only expressed my own distrust. I don’t give a shit what you do, I don’t trust the government, or corpo mercenary science outfits, because I wasn’t born yesterday.
And I am sharing my opinion. Why do you care so much? How dare someone not take the government at their word? GTFO I would say if one communicated that to me.
With no other side effects than, what? Mimicking your bodies hormones? The name sure sounds like that’s the case knowing what I know about sunscreen from Consumer Reports.
There’s a lot of information about this ingredient out there since it’s been used outside of the US for decades now.
I’d rather risk using sunscreen than risk sun exposure.
Endocrine disuptors are not the only source of suncsreen.
I didn’t say they were.
Regardless of how you feel about the FDA, this is a good step in the right direction. Our sunscreen options aren’t very good comparatively and this will help improve skin protection.
No one is forcing you to use this type of sunscreen.
I am saying we should get some independent analysis of this before accepting it’s safe because governments said it was. But what do I know.
No, you are pushing that this particular ingredient is an endocrine disruptor and that even though it’s been in use for decades, because the FDA approved it, no one should trust it.
I said I want a reliable source before I would concede it’s safe.
Like a child sitting around demanding others do your work for you.
neither is skin cancer and uv radiation.
As if endocrine disruptors are the only types of sunscreen? Your argument is flawed, and I reject it.