UVA I-protection effectiveness of bioactive compound and organic UV filters: an in vitro assessment

This research work aimed at determining the UVA effectiveness (UVA I/UV ratio), by diffuse transmittance analysis, of sunscreens developed with a bioactive substance, the rutin, associating or not with organic UVB-UVA filters incorporated at a phosphate-base O/W emulsion. Sunscreens provided conflic...

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Main Authors: André Rolim Baby, Tatiana Santana Balogh, Carla Aparecida Pedriali, Telma Mary Kaneko, Maria Valéria Robles Velasco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2009-01-01
Series:Química Nova
Subjects:
UVA
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422009000500039
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Summary:This research work aimed at determining the UVA effectiveness (UVA I/UV ratio), by diffuse transmittance analysis, of sunscreens developed with a bioactive substance, the rutin, associating or not with organic UVB-UVA filters incorporated at a phosphate-base O/W emulsion. Sunscreens provided conflicting and unpredictable results concerning the anti-UVA protection, specially, at the UVA I region. Possible interactions among the organic UV filters and the polyphenolic bioactive substance may have accounted with improvement or reduction of UV protection by a complex and not yet elucidated mechanism, probably regarding wavelength delocalization to superior or inferior values, by resonant molecule stabilization or destabilization.
ISSN:0100-4042
1678-7064