Mineral sunscreen compositions

Abstract

A sunscreen composition in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion comprising: a) a water phase of about 20% to 60% by weight relative to the total weight of the sunscreen composition; b) one or more mineral UV filtering agents; c) one or more oil thickening agents selected from poly C10-30 alkyl acrylate, hydrogenated jojoba oil and its derivatives and mixtures thereof; wherein the total amount of oil thickening agents is about 0.5% to about 4% by weight relative to the total weight of the sunscreen composition; wherein the amount of hydrogenated jojoba oil and its derivatives is no more than 1.5 times the amount of poly C10-30 alkyl acrylate; wherein the composition has a viscosity of about 0.1 Pa·s to about 5 Pa·s at 25° C. at 10 rad/s; and wherein the inflection point of the largest viscosity transition at 10 rad/s is between 30° C. to 40° C.

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