Sunscreen is designed to protect your skin from the sun’s damaging rays, and forms an important part of a complete sun protection strategy. UV filters, mainly used in sunscreen products and some other cosmetics and personal care products, play an important role in maintaining good health and are regularly subjected to specific verifications by scientific committees to ensure their safety and efficacy.

Octocrylene, an organic UV filter, degrades into benzophenone, a compound suspected of being carcinogenic and endocrine disrupting. Thus, benzophenone can be found in minor traces in products containing octocrylene (especially in cases where the expiration date has been exceeded).

The challenge is then for companies to control octocrylene throughout the lifecycle of the product and to ensure that benzophenone quantities always stay below toxicity thresholds in order to guarantee total harmlessness to human health.

Eurofins laboratories, ISO 17025 certified, perform a full range of analyses to check the compliance and safety of your products, including quantification of 22 UV filters, specific test protocol determining benzophenone, efficacy of UV filters, stability testing, and more.

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