Skin Conditioning and Protection Agents in Sunscreen Formulation

Every person who wants protection from the rays of the sun knows the importance of choosing the proper ingredients for the sunscreen formulation. These ingredients could be herbal or synthetic but they must give effective protection for the skin. Harmful UV rays penetrate the skin surface, and destroy vital components of the skin. This causes deterioration of skin health.

Signs of Skin Damage

When skin damage occurs, we lose the beauty of the skin. The main signs of skin damage are these:
●    Rough skin texture.
●    Dilated pores.
●    Blotchy skin color.
●    Skin laxity.
●    Telangiectasia.
●    Sallowness.
●    Brown spots.
●    Wrinkles.

Youthfulness and elasticity of the skin get replaced by fine lines, crows feet, and discolored skin. Repeated ultraviolet exposure will cause this kind of damage. Use of creams and lotions having Sunscreen Formulation give protection to the skin.     One should take care to choose the skin creams that have natural ingredients because synthetic ones will do more harm than good.

Types of UV Ray Blockers

We see two kinds of blockers - physical and chemical. The physical blockers scatter or reflect the UV rays. It is also possible that they absorb the rays to a small extent. Aromatic compounds form the bulk of the chemical blockers. They conjugate it with a carbonyl group in the Sunscreen Formulation.

Ingredients Used in Sunscreen

During the sunscreen product formulation, they make use of many ingredients including Glycerin, Aqua, Sodium Benzoate, glucose stabilized vitamin C, milk protein, lactose, and soybean seed extract among others. They function as UV filters, repairing agents, revitalizing agents, protective agents, moisturizing agents, and anti-stress agents.

Check the SPF of the Sunscreen Lotion

The sunscreen product formulation acts as an ultraviolet ray sponge and absorbs the harmful rays. An SPF of at least 15 will give you enough protection from the sun. A cream with an SPF of 2 will give 50% protection from the sun’s rays.

Foam Booster Ingredients to Improve Beauty Products

As with a surfactant, a foam booster helps make foam in shower and bath products. Shower gel, bubble soap, and shampoos have foam booster ingredients. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between two substances such as oil and water. This improves the foaming capacity of the soap. Using bath products having surfactants helps remove the dirt from the surface of hair. Gases present in its natural state like carbon dioxide or resulting from a chemical reaction such as from bleach are examples of blowing agents.

Use of Foaming Agents

Blowing agents and foam boosters are essential ingredients in soaps and shampoos. Adding foam booster ingredients to ordinary liquid soap will change it to a special one. Common foaming agents in use include Ammonium Laureth Sulfate and Sodium Laureth Sulfate. To get the best result, they often add secondary surfactants such as betaines to the primary anionic surfactants.

Protection from the Sun’s Rays

The action of the sunscreen lotion is simple. It has a delivery agent for the active sunscreen ingredients that absorb the harmful UV rays from the sun. This helps protect the skin from harm. The method is simple enough but the formulation of sunscreen lotion is quite complex. We need it to control sensitive performance parameters and pack it all in one package. Chemical fillers are the most common ingredient in sunscreen lotions. Mineral sunscreens usually have titanium dioxide or zinc oxide.

The Action of Zinc Oxide

These inorganic substances deflect the sun’s rays to provide protection. Some may have organic compounds that absorb the UV rays and decrease the intensity.

You can see the sun protection factor on the label of the sunscreen lotion that tells you how long the formulation of sunscreen lotion will protect you. These are white, opaque ointments optimized to give good protection from the sun. You can get them in the form of gels, sprays, and oils other than lotions.