Sun on your skin feels great – but how does sunscreen actually protect against UV radiation? In this workshop, you'll become a cosmetic chemist and create your own sunscreen. Together, we'll discover how UV filters work and what's behind the ingredients in modern cosmetic products.
Using pipettes, UV lamps, and various raw materials, you'll experiment just like in a real research lab: You'll mix your own cream, observe fascinating fluorescence effects under UV light, and directly test how well different sunscreens work. In doing so, you'll playfully learn about the chemistry behind emulsions, skin protection, and cosmetics.
Finally, you take your homemade sunscreen home with you.
Summer, sun, science – your sunscreen lab
Summer, sun, science – your sunscreen lab
Thu. 02.07.2026
17:00 to 19:00
Recommended age: 10-16
In the Maker Lab, Headquarters A32
Rohrdamm 88
13629 Berlin
Sun on your skin feels great – but how does sunscreen actually protect against UV radiation? In this workshop, you'll become a cosmetic chemist and create your own sunscreen. Together, we'll discover how UV filters work and what's behind the ingredients in modern cosmetic products.
Using pipettes, UV lamps, and various raw materials, you'll experiment just like in a real research lab: You'll mix your own cream, observe fascinating fluorescence effects under UV light, and directly test how well different sunscreens work. In doing so, you'll playfully learn about the chemistry behind emulsions, skin protection, and cosmetics.
Finally, you take your homemade sunscreen home with you.
Please bring two heat-resistant containers or cans for your homemade sunscreen.
For the workshop, we recommend a apron and comfortable clothing, which may also get a little splashed on it.
In this course you will learn
🧴 understand how sunscreen and UV protection work
🧪 Make your own sunscreen and discover the chemistry of emulsions.
🔦 Experiment with UV light and fluorescence
🧬 Better understand and evaluate the ingredients of cosmetic products
Accompanying you in the course
Rafael and Nicole
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