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UVA and UBA Protection Sunscreens

Most sunscreens available in the U.S. provide UBA skin protection which helps protect you from skin cancer but no sunscreens made in the U.S., to date, provide ultraviolet light (UVA) protection which helps prevent your skin from wrinkles caused by overexposure to the sun, at least no sunscreens that have been approved by the U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA) to be sold in the USA.  However, you can find some sunscreens with UVA protection on display but locked behind glass and for sale almost secretly in the U.S. being sold sold at cosmetic counters at very high prices!

The problem is the wrinkle-inhibiting ingredient, Mexoral, has not yet been approved by the FDA even though it has been available in over-the-counter sunscreens sold in Europe and elsewhere for over 10 years now!  No one can seem to find out why the FDA has not yet approved Mexoral for use in sunscreens manufactured in the U.S. or if the FDA is even investigating the ingredient, Mexoral, for use in the U.S.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE:  ABC-TV 20/20  6/17/05

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