The biggest skin-care trends of 2026 go back to basics
UC expert discusses potential new sunscreen ingredient approval
The University of Cincinnati's Kelly Dobos was featured in an Allure article discussing the biggest skin-care trends of 2026.
Dobos said one trend to watch is the potential Food and Drug Administration approval of a new UV filter that can be used in sunscreen formulations. There are approximately eight commonly used filters out of the 16 that are approved for American formulation, but the European Union and Japan work with more than 30 approved filters, Dobos said.
The filter that may be approved this year, Bemotrizinol (BEMT), would be new to the United States but has been in use abroad for around 20 years.
BEMT “stays stable longer and gives better broad-spectrum protection than any sunscreen filter currently approved in the US,” said Dobos, a cosmetic chemist and adjunct instructor in UC's Cosmetic Science Program in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
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