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L’Oréal Patents Hybrid Mineral and Organic Sunscreen

Formula is described as a daily-use thick cream moisturizer.

US Patent No. 11,980,678 B2; (Jennifer Lynn Paulucci, Maximillian Baria, Jaimie Mecca, Patricia Brieva, Rose Maxwell); L’Oréal, Paris, patented an organic-mineral hybrid sunscreen composition comprising an oil-in-water emulsion. The O-I-W emulsion is comprised of an oil phase comprising at least one mineral UV filter comprising zinc oxide and a blend of organic UV filters comprising ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, ethylhexyl salicylate, octocrylene, and homosalate; a water phase comprising water, at least one water-miscible solvent and at least one polymer; and at least one filler.

The composition has an SPF of at least about 30 and a critical wavelength of at least 370 nm.

The composition excludes one or more ingredients selected from the group consisting of menthyl anthranilate, parabens, and combinations thereof. It is free of surfactants other than cationic surfactants comprising quaternary ammonium compounds or quaternary ammonium salts with fatty alcohols.

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