Vitamin C 2%, Vitamin E 0.5%, Cyclopentasiloxane, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Octyl Methoxycinnamate, Octyl Salicylate, Octocrylene, Oxybenzone, Butyl Methoxybenzoylmethane, Tocopheryl Acetate & Perfume. - Sheerspot MistSheerspot-Mist

How Sheerspot-Mist works

Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are mineral filters: they sit on the skin and scatter and absorb ultraviolet light before it reaches the cells beneath. Octinoxate, octocrylene and the other organic filters absorb UV and release it as heat. Broad-spectrum protection needs both UVB cover, which prevents burning, and UVA cover, which prevents the deeper damage that causes pigmentation and ageing. Sunscreen is also the single most effective thing anyone using a brightening product can do, because untreated ultraviolet exposure undoes it. Vitamin C works on pigmentation in two ways at once. It interferes with tyrosinase, the enzyme that begins melanin production, so less new pigment is made; and it is a powerful antioxidant, neutralising the free radicals ultraviolet light generates in skin. It is also required for collagen synthesis -- the enzymes that cross-link collagen cannot function without it, which is why vitamin C appears in anti-ageing formulations as well as brightening ones. Plain ascorbic acid oxidises quickly, which is why stabilised derivatives such as 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid are used. Putting them in one formulation means the routine stays short, which is the main reason people keep to it.