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.
Screworms?
Bemotrizinol (BEMT), also known as Tinosorb S or Parsol Shield, is an oil-soluble, broad-spectrum chemical UV filter that absorbs both UVA and UVB rays. It is widely celebrated in Europe and Asia for its high photostability (it does not readily break down in sunlight) and excellent safety profile
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!
This is the same country that encourages tanning beds for children.
Are you talking about Korea or the US? I wouldn’t be shocked if the answer is both.
This is still really good news for skin care and sun protection in the US.
US. RFK wants kids to look like old wallets by 16.
At least now we will have more access to better sun protection!
I remember tanning beds being super popular with my peers when I was a teen. The popularity seems to be rising again along with the skinny jeans and heroin chic look.
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.
Definitely on the covering skin, or be like me and hide from the sun like a cave dweller.
My understanding is the 25+ years of data (admittedly assuming I remember correctly) in Europe shows it is safe. Maybe the new chemical at least, can’t remember on the UVmune compounds. However, I trust EU testing far more than anything coming out of the US.
I didn’t realize there were so many anti-sunscreen folk on Lemmy lol
I know right? Did not expect
Are they endocrine disruptors though?
That is bad by the way.
they dont contain BPA.
Bemotrizinol is not an endocrine disruptor. Why are you pushing this everywhere instead of looking into this yourself?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s impossible to draw “a clear line in the sand” on whether certain sunscreen ingredients are completely healthy for people or not, Addae says. But she adds that evidence has emerged that has given researchers some insight into how sunscreen filters generally interact with our bodies. Chemically, BEMT has larger chromophores—light-absorbing molecules—than other organic filters, which makes them less of a concern for adverse biological interactions, Addae says. In pharmacology and dermatology, researchers use the “500 dalton rule” in which molecules with a molecular weight of more than 500 daltons are usually too large and bulky to pass through the skin.
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.
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.
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.
Sunscreen now wirh Protien!
Bullshit. Sounds like another endocrine disruptor.
This ingredient has been used in sunscreens for decades outside of the US.
Between various countries’ regulatory approval and real-world use, bemotrizinol has some of the most robust safety and efficacy testing among sunscreen filters. Following the ingredient’s development in the late 1990s by the now defunct Switzerland-based company Ciba Specialty Chemicals, the European Union adopted it into sunscreens in 2000. Canada and several countries in Asia followed suit soon after.
“A ton of safety data have had to be accrued in a lot of different populations,” Wyles says. Companies developing sunscreen filters need lots of funding to get the data needed for approval in the U.S., she adds.
Not only is bemotrizinol now the first filter to obtain the FDA’s stamp of approval since 1999, it’s also the first and only organic filter to receive the FDA’s safety and effectiveness standard, known as generally recognized as safe and effective (GRASE), for over-the-counter drugs or ingredients that don’t require full regulatory approval. The GRASE designation “is huge,” Addae says.
“I think that will kind of debunk the consumer’s perception that inorganic filters are generally recognized as safe and effective and organic filters tend to not be,” she says. “This shows that there can be organic filters that are that are determined GRASE.”
The FDA is not a reliable source. And they pay researchers to work backwards from it’s safe to it’s use. How do you not question this by now?
Maybe you are partially right, none of what you cited is even remotely proving that, only that you trust the wrong people, frankly.
I’m not trusting the FDA, I’m trusting other countries methods of approving this particular ingredient.
The FDA is decades late on approving this ingredient.
I don’t trust any governments, rather nonprofits and orgs like consumer reports. We will see.
You think there isn’t data out there from other orgs?
I will believe it when I hear it from them.
Be content to sit in the dark then.
No one is going to deliver this info to you on a silver platter, especially if you’re unwilling to search for the info yourself.
As a true US-ian. Fascinating to observe. Here’s a gift from here in the Arctic: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=PguJ-lm4uLg
“babe, stop, that’s enough sunscreen for the day.”
Is it related to RFK Jr.’s raccoon fixation?
RFK JR prefers full blast of UV radiation from a tanning salon. hence his pleather face.
That’s just the peen.
I honestly assumed it was ivermectin.
my thought to.
to what
to big_bosseses ivermectin thing. when I saw this I was thinking. yeah its likely ivermectin. facisiously of course but honestly the amount of things I think in a facisious type of way that end up true with this administration seems to be unending.
