Sunscreen Active Ingredient Testing

Microbac Laboratories, Inc. is a full service FDA-registered cGMP laboratory experienced in performing the full range of sunscreen chemical assay and microbiological tests needed by your industry.  Today, as the cosmetic industry continues to expand, the FDA has recently proposed a new labeling system, rating a product’s effectiveness against UVA light. This would require all “sunscreen” products to have an SPF rating for UVA as well as UVB rays.  Whatever the requirements may be, we can test for the FDA-approved active sunscreen product ingredients listed below:

Organic Active Ingredients
Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) up to 15 percent
Avobenzone up to 3 percent
Cinoxate (2-Ethoxyethyl p-methoxycinnamate) up to 3 percent
Dioxybenzone up to 3 percent
Ecamsule (terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acid)
Homosalate up to 15 percent
Menthyl anthranilate up to 5 percent
Octocrylene up to 10 percent
Octyl methoxycinnamate (octinoxate) 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
Trolamine salicylate up to 12 percent

Inorganic Active Ingredients
Titanium dioxide up to 25 percent
Zinc oxide up to 25 percent