Patent ID: 7309481

Claim:
A composition essentially free of lower monohydric alcohols selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, propanol and isoproponal and mixtures thereof that provides protection from ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight and is photostable in natural sunlight consisting essentially of (a) a triplet combination of sunscreens consisting of avobenzone, octocrylene and oxybenzone; (b) optionally, a fourth sunscreen component selected from the group consisting of one or more sunscreens that (i) individually are photostable when exposed to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight; and (ii) do not substantially negatively impact the photostability of the individual sunscreens in the triplet combination; (c) containing no diesters or polyesters of naphthalene dicarboxylic acid; and (d) substantially free of substantial amounts of optimizing agents selected from the group consisting of 1,2-pentanediol, neopentanediol, 1,2-octanediol, ethoxydiglycol, butylene glycol monopropionate, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, PEG-7 methyl ether, octacosanyl glycol, arachidyl glycol, benzyl glycol, 1,2-hexanediol, C 14-18 glycol, C 15-18 glycol, 1,2-dodecanediol, butoxydiglycol, 1,10-decanediol, ethyl hexanediol and mixtures thereof.