Today octocrylene is one of the most common molecules included in commercially available sunscreens. It provides broadband photoprotection for the skin from incident UV-A and UV-B radiation of the solar spectrum. In order to understand how octocrylene fulfils its role as a sunscreening agent, femtosecond pump-probe transient electronic UV-visible absorption spectroscopy is utilised to investigate the ultrafastnonradiative relaxation mechanism of octocrylene in cyclohexane or methanol after UV-B photoexcitation. The data presented clearly shows that UV-B photoexcited octocrylene exhibits ultrafast-nonradiative relaxation mechanisms to repopulate its initial ground state within a few picoseconds, which, at the very least, photophysically justifies its wide spread inclusion in commercial sunscreens.