FDA Approved Sunscreen Ingredients
US Federal Drugs Administration (FDA) has approved the following 17 active sunscreen ingredients for use in over-the-counter sunscreen products:
- Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in concentration up to 15 percent (in grams of the total mass of a sunscreen product)
- Avobenzone up to 3 percent
- Cinoxate up to 3 percent
- Dioxybenzone up to 3 percent
- Ecamsule (terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acid) up to 10 percent, approved by FDA on July 24, 2006, is commercially available as Anthelios SX in US, and Mexoryl SX in EU and AU
- Homosalate up to 15 percent
- Menthyl anthranilate up to 5 percent
- Octocrylene up to 10 percent
- Octyl methoxycinnamate up to 7.5 percent
- Octyl salicylate up to 5 percent
- Oxybenzone up to 6 percent
- Padimate O up to 8 percent
- Phenylbenzimidazole sulfonic acid up to 4 percent
- Sulisobenzone up to 10 percent
- Titanium dioxide up to 25 percent
- Trolamine salicylate up to 12 percent
- Zinc oxide up to 25 percent.
