Facially Conscious™ | "Get the Skinny on all things Skin!"
Sep 29, 2026 · 28 min · 14 segments
The ladies are together again! For our first episode back, we’re jumping right into sunscreen, starting with BEMT (*bemotrizinol)*, the first new sunscreen ingredient approved in the U.S. in decades…
Vicki RapoportHost
Trina ReneaHost
Julie FallsHost
Okay, so today we're talking about a new FDA-approved sunscreen filter, and it's the first approved in 25 years, which is crazy.
Can you tell us what you know about the ingredient? I can't even say the word, so can you tell us what the word is? Absolutely.
So bematrizinol or B-E-M-T. I'll give you guys a little bit of background on it, and then you can ask me some questions that you have about it and are curious about if I haven't covered it.
If you practice dermatology in the U.S., we have been living in a sunscreen time capsule because Europe's had this sunscreen for over 25 years, 26 years.
But part of the reason why it's such an exciting new development is because it's incredibly photo stable, meaning it's not going to break down and it's going to last longer, which is one of the problems because nobody's reapplying sunscreen.
So it's very, very photo stable itself, but it also photo stabilizes other sunscreens that will most likely be combined with it because it by itself isn't the end all be all of all sunscreens.
It's a big molecule, which should mean and help people understand that doesn't actually penetrate the skin.
It mostly just sits on the top layer of the skin, which again is it's stable and it's sitting there.
It's not penetrating, causing a little bit of systemic absorption, but not too much.
So, you know, it's a kind of big news because, A, it's the first sunscreen in 25 years that's been approved, and it does have this wonderful stability that might give people better sunscreen usage and long-term protection from the UVA and UVB rays that we know causes skin cancer.
Okay, so today we're talking about a new FDA-approved sunscreen filter, and it's the first approved in 25 years, which is crazy.
Can you tell us what you know about the ingredient? I can't even say the word, so can you tell us what the word is? Absolutely.
So bematrizinol or B-E-M-T. I'll give you guys a little bit of background on it, and then you can ask me some questions that you have about it and are curious about if I haven't covered it.
If you practice dermatology in the U.S., we have been living in a sunscreen time capsule because Europe's had this sunscreen for over 25 years, 26 years.
But part of the reason why it's such an exciting new development is because it's incredibly photo stable, meaning it's not going to break down and it's going to last longer, which is one of the problems because nobody's reapplying sunscreen.
So it's very, very photo stable itself, but it also photo stabilizes other sunscreens that will most likely be combined with it because it by itself isn't the end all be all of all sunscreens.
It's a big molecule, which should mean and help people understand that doesn't actually penetrate the skin.
It mostly just sits on the top layer of the skin, which again is it's stable and it's sitting there.
It's not penetrating, causing a little bit of systemic absorption, but not too much.
So, you know, it's a kind of big news because, A, it's the first sunscreen in 25 years that's been approved, and it does have this wonderful stability that might give people better sunscreen usage and long-term protection from the UVA and UVB rays that we know causes skin cancer.
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