THE FUTURE OF SUN CARE IS THE FUTURE OF BEAUTY.™
From a must-do to a must-have, we have reimagined the consumer experience of SPF-infused beauty.
Our Active Stress Defense™ technology suite reinvents zinc oxide, optimizing it to improve its efficacy and aesthetics while boasting best-in-class skin health claims and retaining the purity to meet global requirements. It’s beauty like you’ve never claimed, and SPF like you’ve never felt.
The Active Stress Defense™ technology suite
Solésence Original Active Stress Defense™
The free radical quenching power of patented Solésence Original Active Stress Defense™ elevates zinc oxide, enabling an improved shield against UVA, UVB, pollution, and blue light while boosting antioxidants and delivering aesthetics that bring mineral SPF away from the beach bag and into the makeup bag. Non-nano.
Solésence Kleair™
Patented Solésence Kleair™ (pronounced “kl-EER”), winner of the 2022 Cosmetics & Toiletries Allē Awards in Sun and Light Protection, reinvents zinc oxide, improving both its performance and aesthetics, to unlock new formats and ensure that Active Stress Defense™ delivers a gorgeous aesthetic suitable for every beautiful face on earth. Non-nano and silicone-free.
Solésence Blüm™
Available in select formulas, Blüm™ reduces the free radicals from HEV (blue) light by 3X. Working through the antioxidative power of plant-based flavonoid rutin, Blüm™ gives a synergistic boost to blue light protection UV performance, and free radical fighting in the skin.
Learn more about the Active Stress Defense™ suite featuring human-centered design and science-backed development and claims.
Sheer, elegant mineral coverage
Best-in-class UVA and UVB protection
Enhanced antioxidant and hero ingredient power
Sheer, elegant mineral coverage
Human-centered design starts with consumer excitement around product use, so we lead with this in mind to make sure your product delivers a best-in-class aesthetic. Our Active Stress Defense™ technology suite allows us to achieve a signature look and feel aligned with top-shelf beauty that is otherwise unavailable across mineral sun care. The extremely high transparency of Solésence Kleair™ ensures that zinc oxide looks beautiful on all skin tones, so that non-nano mineral sunscreen works for everybody.
Best-in-class UVA and UVB protection
Aging (49%) vies with cancer (47%) as suncare users’ top two skin health concerns, according to Mintel, and for good reason: two people die of skin cancer every hour in the US alone, five or more sunburns doubles your risk for melanoma, and 90% of skin aging is caused by the sun. Skin cancer is both common and largely preventable.
Our mineral formulas target both consumers’ health and aesthetic concerns relative to sun damage: our products are all broad-spectrum and absorb up to 98%+ of UV radiation, with a UVA-PF that is 25-100% more than standard mineral sunscreens. Solésence Kleair™ delivers superior UV attenuation, leading to the achievement of superior SPF and UVA protection. Learn more about SPF testing.
Oxidative stress prevention
Free radical formation can lead to oxidative stress, causing wrinkles, sagging, and hyperpigmentation. Solesence Original Active Stress Defense™ and Solésence Kleair™ technologies outperform standard mineral sunscreens in both their ability to prevent, intercept and quench free radicals before they enter the skin, as well as their ability to shield antioxidants.
Solesence Original Active Stress Defense™ and Solésence Kleair™ work in three ways to intercept and quench free radicals: in formula, on the skin, and in the skin. We also invest in identifying and selecting ingredients that meet strict requirements relative to free radical and ROS formation, and before work begins in our R&D lab, each ingredient must pass a screening for both toxicity and radical generation. The resulting efficacy stops greater than 95% of free radicals in their tracks before they can do any damage.
Enhanced antioxidant and hero ingredient power
We know efficacy is top of mind for consumers. When antioxidants such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and Green Tea Extract are added to a formula, Solésence Original Active Stress Defense™ and Solésence Kleair™ work through free radical quenching to enhance antioxidative power by up to 5X more than standard mineral sunscreens. Further to this, Solésence Original Active Stress Defense™ and Solésence Kleair™ facilitate the enhanced stability and efficacy of key ingredients in your formulas, including vitamin A (retinol), by protecting ingredients that are sensitive to being deactivated by UV light – supercharging your hero ingredients. Learn more about retinoids and SPF.
Pollution protection
Air pollution induces free radicals and depletes the skin’s antioxidants, causing environmentally-induced oxidative stress – much like UV does. Solésence Original Active Stress Defense™ and Solésence Kleair™ quench these free radicals, helping to prevent hyperpigmentation and age spots, effectively creating an active shield against pollution-induced skin damage.
Blue light protection
Original Active Stress Defense™ and Kleair™ facilitate the enhanced stability and efficacy of key ingredients in your formulas, including vitamin A (retinol), anti-oxidant complexes, and sunscreen actives for potent products that pack a punch. That means even your hero ingredients can get supercharged. Learn more about retinoids and SPF.
End-to-end Sustainability
We know that sustainability continues to grow in importance to consumers and to your brand. In 2024, we earned a Bronze EcoVadis badge for our sustainability and ESG achievements in 2023. Additionally, we address sustainability three ways: through our technology development, through our vertical integration, and through our zinc oxide process.
Our newest technology, Solésence Kleair™, is a non-nano zinc oxide treated with a sustainably-minded, second-generation Solésence Active Stress Defense™ technology consisting of silica with stabilizing agents selected from Ecocert and COSMOS ingredients. Kleair™ is also self-quenching, making it safer for coral reefs than sunscreen actives that emit free radicals, and all our formulas are compliant with Hawaii’s recent regulations.
Due to the specialty expertise and regulation required by sunscreen actives, these ingredients are typically shipped from suppliers to manufacturers, resulting in additional waste and emissions. We are vertically integrated: both our technologies and products are manufactured in-house.
Our proprietary zinc oxide process is water-free, helping to preserve resources, and our process has no effluent. We also upcycle the very minor waste stream of our zinc oxide process — resulting in virtually no waste.