The biggest bonus, obviously, is that a layer that’s sunken in won’t get wiped or washed away anywhere near as easily. This delivery system is slightly different: it seems to deliver actives, then seal them in.Īnother bonus: because this isn’t a barrier, it also doesn’t seem to interfere with sweating, and it doesn’t make you feel as hot. This is very unusual for a penetration enhancer that lets things go deeper into your skin, because most of the time, these will actually decrease your barrier function (they open the skin up so actives can get through, but that means irritants can also enter more easily). One really interesting thing about this patented delivery system is that it can actually increase your skin’s barrier function. This patent is actually used for other things as well, like treatments for atopic dermatitis. This means that the UV-absorbing substances are shallow enough that they can still protect the lower living cells, while not being rubbed off too easily.Įvy uses a similar concept – a special patent that involves a mix of glycerin, dimethicone and fatty acids like lauric acid and stearic acid. You might have heard of liposomal sunscreens – liposomes are micelle-like packages that can sink into the stratum corneum and release the sunscreen ingredients there. To try to deal with this longevity issue, some sunscreens use different technologies to get the sunscreening ingredients a little bit deeper into the skin’s top dead layers (the stratum corneum). So over time the protection decreases, which is why you’re meant to reapply your sunscreen every two hours or so. But a product that’s mostly on top of a moving flexible substance like skin will shift around and get rubbed off. Some of them also sink a little bit into the top layers of skin. Most sunscreen products rely on the sorts of formulation tricks that barrier creams use – trying to make the sunscreen stay in a layer on top of skin, and making that layer as continuous and even for as long as possible. And based on the data I’ve looked at… I think it could actually be true! (I bet some of you never thought I would actually say that.) Their most impressive claim is that their sunscreen lasts through a lot: 6-8 hours on your skin, water, sweat, towel rubbing.Įvy’s claims have actually been on my radar for a while, because they solve some serious issues with sunscreens, and it would be amazing if they were true. They’re really popular in Sweden, and in Europe generally (although sadly not available in Australia). I could be wrong! If you disagree, let me know in the comments (and please don’t sue me).Ģ Mixing Dermablend Flawless Creator Drops into Sunscreen Evy Technology’s 6 Hour SunscreenĮvy Technology are a Swedish sunscreen brand with a range of mousse sunscreen products. So I think it’s important to talk to the company, and try to understand where they’re coming from.Īgain, a disclaimer: these are my opinions. Sometimes it’s just too new to be there, sometimes they just want to protect their intellectual property, and sometimes there are complicated legal reasons for not publishing publicly. And there are also a lot of innovations that just don’t show up in the peer-reviewed literature – a lot of the time there’s just no incentive for a company to do the research to a standard that will be accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. There are lots of issues, which is why a lot of people don’t apply enough, or they don’t apply it properly, or they might not even wear sunscreen at all. I try to keep an open mind about innovations, even if they sound pretty unusual, because a lot of the time, sunscreen is… not that great. Then I try to match that with what we know about sunscreen. Like I mentioned last time, I try to talk to the company to work out what their reasoning is behind the claim (Why exactly are they making the claim? What evidence do they have?). The YouTube video is here, keep scrolling for the text version… Dermablend Flawless Creator pigment drops can be mixed into sunscreens without compromising the protection levels.Evy Technology has a range of high-tech foam sunscreens that are meant to last for far longer than standard sunscreen claims.This time I’m talking about two more products that people have been asking me about: Related post: Do They Work? Colorescience SPF Powder, Skinnies “Pea-Sized Amount” (with video) Last time I talked about the Colorescience powder sunscreen and the Skinnies “pea-sized amount” claim. Being the “sunscreen nerd” person, I get a lot of questions about unusual sunscreen products and whether or not their claims work out.
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