Barrier Impaired & Dry Skin
Hydrate. Restore. Strengthen.
A restorative skin ritual designed to replenish essential moisture, strengthen the skin's protective barrier and restore comfort to dry, dehydrated or compromised skin for a softer, healthier-looking complexion over time.
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Best For
✔ Dry or dehydrated skin
✔ Tight, uncomfortable or flaky skin
✔ Rough or uneven skin texture
✔ A weakened or compromised skin barrier
✔ Skin recovering from environmental stress, seasonal dryness or active skincare treatments
Healthy-looking skin depends on a well-functioning skin barrier that helps keep moisture in and environmental stressors out. When this protective barrier becomes weakened, water is lost more easily, leaving skin feeling dry, tight, rough and less resilient.
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Rather than simply adding moisture to the surface, this protocol supports the biological processes that help replenish hydration, reinforce the skin barrier and restore lasting comfort, softness and resilience over time.
Healthy skin doesn't simply need more moisture—it needs the ability to retain it.
your ritual goal
Softer, healthier-looking skin with lasting hydration, improved comfort and a stronger skin barrier.
✨ Ritual Benefits
✔ Supports barrier repair
✔ Improves hydration retention
✔ Reduces irritation and discomfort
✔ Strengthens skin resilience
✔ Supports long-term skin health
🌿 INGREDIENTS
Niacinamide → reduces redness + strengthens barrier
Ectoin → protects and repairs stressed skin
Beta-Glucan → soothes + supports healing
Centella Asiatica → calms and restores
Panthenol (Vitamin B5) → hydrates + repairs
Aloe Vera → cooling, calming hydration
Evening
Evening is when skin naturally shifts into repair mode, making it the ideal time to replenish hydration, strengthen the skin barrier and support the skin's natural overnight recovery processes.
Standard Evenings
1. Cleanse
Calm Cleanser
Gently removes sunscreen, makeup and daily impurities without disrupting the skin's protective barrier.
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2. Prepare
Repair Hydromist
Replenishes hydration while delivering barrier-supporting ingredients that help prepare the skin for overnight recovery.
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3. Treat
B-Gentle Serum
Helps strengthen the skin barrier, improve hydration and calm skin that feels dry, sensitive or environmentally stressed.
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4. Hydrate
Calm Moisturiser
A nourishing daily moisturiser that helps replenish hydration, support the skin barrier and maintain lasting comfort while your skin naturally repairs overnight.
Gentle Skin Renewal
Once your skin feels consistently comfortable and your barrier is healthy, you can gradually introduce Reveal Tonic.
Begin with one evening each week, increasing to two or three evenings each week as tolerated.
Reveal Tonic gently encourages healthy skin renewal while helping improve rough texture, reduce surface flaking and promote a softer, smoother complexion.
Always follow with Repair Hydromist, B-Gentle Serum and Calm Moisturiser.
Refinement Options
Once your skin feels consistently comfortable and your barrier is healthy, you can gradually introduce gentle skin renewal.
Ongoing Renewal
✓ Reveal Tonic
Once your skin feels comfortable and resilient, begin with one evening each week, increasing to two or three evenings each week as tolerated.
Reveal Tonic gently supports healthy skin renewal while helping maintain smooth, comfortable skin.
Monthly Intensive Renewal
One or two times each month, replace a Reveal Tonic evening with:
✓ Dual Action Peel
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✓ Reveal Face Polish
to provide a more intensive skin-refining treatment.
Reveal Tonic
Gentle Enzyme Renewal
Once your skin feels consistently comfortable
A gentle enzyme tonic that supports healthy skin renewal by lifting away accumulated surface cells while helping maintain skin comfort and hydration.
✓ Encourages gentle skin renewal
✓ Smooths dry, rough texture
✓ Helps maintain a healthy skin barrier
Reveal Polish
Gentle Weekly Polish
1–2 evenings each month
A gentle polishing treatment that removes dry surface flakes and smooths rough texture without over-exfoliating barrier-impaired skin.
✓ Buffs away dry, flaky skin
✓ Refines rough texture
✓ Reveals softer, smoother skin
Dual Action Peel
Hydrating Skin Renewal
When your skin feels ready for deeper renewal
Fruit enzymes and gentle exfoliating acids support healthy skin renewal while helping improve texture, restore softness and maintain skin comfort.
✓ Supports healthy skin renewal
✓ Smooths rough, uneven texture
✓ Promotes a softer, healthier-looking complexion
Personalise your Ritual
As your skin's needs change, personalise your ritual with targeted treatments that provide additional hydration, nourishment and advanced skin renewal while maintaining a healthy skin barrier.
N.B Do not use A-New on the same night as your Refinement Night
Soothing Hydrogel Mask
Barrier Recovery Mask
When skin feels dry, tight or irritated
Provides an intensive boost of cooling hydration to replenish moisture, comfort stressed skin and support a stronger, healthier skin barrier.
✓ Deeply hydrates dry skin
✓ Helps calm and comfort irritation
✓ Supports barrier recovery
Radiance Elixir
Barrier Nourishing Facial Oil
When skin feels dry or depleted
A lightweight botanical facial oil that helps replenish essential lipids, improve moisture retention and restore lasting softness and healthy-looking radiance.
✓ Nourishes the skin barrier
✓ Helps lock in hydration
✓ Restores softness and natural glow
Restore Cream.
Intensive Barrier Moisturiser
When skin feels very dry or barrier-impaired
A rich restorative moisturiser formulated to replenish moisture, reinforce the skin barrier and provide lasting comfort for dry, compromised skin.
✓ Intensively nourishes dry skin
✓ Strengthens the skin barrier
✓ Helps relieve tightness and discomfort
A-New Serum
Progressive Overnight Renewal
Once your skin barrier is healthy and comfortable
Retinal supports healthy overnight skin renewal while helping improve texture, smooth the appearance of fine lines and maintain healthier-looking skin over time.
✓ Supports healthy skin renewal
✓ Improves skin texture over time
✓ Helps maintain smoother, healthier-looking skin
FAQs
Many people notice improved comfort and hydration within the first one to two weeks. Rebuilding a healthy skin barrier takes longer, so improvements in softness, resilience and moisture retention typically develop over several weeks of consistent daily care.
Yes, but only once your skin feels comfortable and your barrier is healthy. Begin with Reveal Tonic one evening each week, gradually increasing as tolerated. Dual Action Peel or Reveal Face Polish can be used as occasional intensive renewal treatments, but avoid using multiple exfoliating products on the same evening.
Yes, provided your skin barrier feels healthy and resilient. Introduce A-New Serum gradually on one or two evenings each week, replacing B-Gentle Serum on those nights. Always follow with Restore Cream and avoid using A-New alongside exfoliating treatments.
Absolutely. Restore Cream helps replenish hydration and strengthen the skin barrier, while Radiance Elixir provides additional botanical lipids that help seal in moisture and support a healthy-looking glow. Apply Radiance Elixir over Restore Cream whenever your skin feels particularly dry or depleted.
Simplify your routine for several days. Use Calm Cleanser, Repair Hydromist, B-Gentle Serum and Restore Cream, pausing exfoliating treatments and A-New Serum until your skin feels comfortable again. Once your barrier has recovered, gradually reintroduce active products one at a time.
Continue your Learning.
Shanga Academy
Understanding Your Skin Barrier
Hydration vs Moisturising
Dry Skin
Dehydrated skin
Ceramides
Bifida Ferment Lysate
Ectoin
Colloidal Oatmeal