Abstract: Described herein is a protection factor evaluation system for determining a protection factor of a skin protection agent with a radiation source with exactly one LED, a detector unit with exactly one photodiode, a control unit and an evaluation unit. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for determining a sun protection factor of a skin protection agent with the method steps of emitting radiation from precisely one LED of a radiation source, detecting remitted radiation with precisely one photodiode of a detector unit and evaluating the protection factor in an evaluation wavelength range, wherein the protection factor of the protection agent is evaluated from the radiation and a transmission spectrum, and wherein the data of the transmission spectrum for determining the protection factor are in silico and/or in vitro data.

Abstract: The invention describes a method for determining sun protection factors of sunscreen agents with a spectroscopic measurement comprising the following steps: first activation of several radiation sources of a radiation source device having at least two radiation sources, first emission of radiation from the at least two radiation sources, detection of the radiation diffusely reflected by a measuring body, determination of the sensor sensitivity ST of a detector, determining the target exposure time tZ and/or the target light power lZ for the at least two radiation sources, second driving of a plurality of radiation sources of the radiation source device having at least two radiation sources, second emission of radiation from the at least two radiation sources with a target exposure time tZ and/or the target light power lZ of the first and the second radiation source of the radiation source device.