Patent ID: 7276230

Claim:
A topical sunscreen composition comprising: at least one sunscreen active; a cosmetically acceptable vehicle; and a compound of the following general formula (I): wherein each X 1 , X 2 and X 3 are independently selected from the group consisting of cyclic and acyclic, saturated and unsaturated, substituted and unsubstituted, alkyls, aryls, amides, amines, hydroxyls, alkoxyls, halogens, hydrogens, carboxyls, nitriles, nitros, sulfonyls, anionic and cationic groups, X 4 is selected from the group consisting of NH, NR, O and S, Y is selected from the group consisting of NH, NR, O and S, R is a C 1 to C 30 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted, and Z is a C 16 to C 50 straight or branched chain, substituted or unsubstituted, conjugated or non-conjugated hydrocarbon.