Compositions including an oil phase emulsified in a continuous water phase, the oil phase including a sunscreen agent that includes a UV- absorbing polyester in an amount effective to provide the composition with an SPF of about 10 or greater and which is the polymerization reaction product of monomers including a UV-absorbing triazole, a diester, a diol and a tetrol polyol an anionic oil-in-water emulsifier, and a nonionic oil-in-water emulsifier having an alcohol functional group, where the weight ratio of the anionic emulsifier to the nonionic emulsifier is about 1,5 or less and where the composition is substantially free of a non-polymeric UV-absorbing sunscreen agent and will have an SPF of less than 2 in the absence of the UV-absorbing polyester.
