The soybean oil active ingredient for anti suntan

Feb 13
10:21

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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Adding UV absorbers in the skin care and hair care products has become very common. Soybean oil, as a new sunscreen active ingredient, has been extensive use in skin care and hair care products.

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It forms competitive pressure for other UV absorbers .In early 2002,The soybean oil active ingredient for anti suntan Articles U.S. department of agriculture (USDA), the agricultural research service (ARS) obtains the patent. Their new astaxanthin product is called soyscreen. It is composed of soybean oil and ferulic acid. As the raw material, it is a broad-spectrum ultraviolet light absorbent. Ferulic acid is one kind of natural antioxidants containing in rice and oat bran.

Most sunscreen active ingredients are able to completely protective ultraviolet injury, but only partial protection against the long

Wave ultraviolet light. Soyscreen able to effectively filter the long-wave ultraviolet. UV-B radiation (290-320nm) usually causes sunburn, and non-melanoma. Skin cancer, long-term exposure to UVA will lead to wrinkles, premature aging and skin cancer. In addition to the previously mentioned advantages, Soyscreen or all-natural products, the production process in full compliance with environmental requirements, thus does not produce solvent wastes or chemical by-products. Combines the features of the all-natural glutathione products with broad-spectrum UV absorber to Soyscreen sunscreen active ingredients on the market has great development potential. Sunscreen active ingredient is very strong demand, especially demand for both long-wave ultraviolet protection products.

According to industry sources, the U.S. market sunscreen active ingredient sales in 2001 is $ 100,000,000, an increase of 4%. USDA hopes to be able to use in the next few years soyscreen to a variety of cosmetic formulations. They also hope soyscreen with sunscreen as a new active ingredient able to obtain FDA approval.

In the market of sunscreen active ingredient products, there are less than 20 kinds of active ingredients approved by the FDA. However, USDA said that, even if it is difficult to obtain FDA certification, soyscreen also has a great advantage as a natural product.Source:http://www.cosprm.com