Acne-Prone Skin
Clarify. Balance. Refine.
A targeted skin ritual designed for acne-prone skin experiencing persistent congestion and recurring breakouts. By supporting healthy skin function through consistent cleansing, balanced exfoliation, barrier support and controlled skin renewal, the protocol helps promote clearer, calmer skin over time.
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Best For
✔ Persistent breakouts
✔ Whiteheads & blackheads
✔ Congested pores
✔ Acne-prone skin
✔ Post-breakout congestion
Acne develops through a combination of excess sebum production, clogged pores, inflammation and changes in normal skin renewal, creating an environment where breakouts can persist. This protocol supports these biological processes with a consistent daily ritual that helps clarify pores, calm inflammation and promote healthier skin function over time.
your ritual goal
Clearer, calmer skin with fewer visible breakouts, reduced congestion and a healthier skin barrier.
✨ Ritual Benefits
✔ Helps reduce congestion and recurring breakouts
✔ Supports clearer pores
✔ Calms visible redness associated with blemishes
✔ Promotes healthy skin renewal
✔ Supports barrier recovery
Key Ingredients for Breakout Support
Salicylic Acid → penetrates pores to help reduce congestion and blemishes
Niacinamide → helps calm redness and support balanced sebum production
Glycolic + Lactic Acid → promote controlled skin renewal to help minimise pore blockage
Willow Bark → supports clearer-looking skin
Panthenol + Glycerin → help maintain barrier function while using active ingredients
Evening
Evening is when skin naturally shifts into repair mode, making it the ideal time to support healthy skin renewal and help reduce the build-up that contributes to recurring breakouts.
Standard Evenings
1. Cleanse
Purify Cleanser
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2. Renew
Clarify Tonic helps support healthy skin renewal while gently exfoliating to keep pores clear, reduce congestion and help minimise the conditions that contribute to breakouts.
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3. Treat
B-Strong Serum
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4. Hydrate
Purify Moisturiser
Weekly Active Treatments
One or two evenings each week, replace your evening tonic with a deeper renewal treatment..
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If your breakouts are mainly:
Inflamed pimples
✓ Dual Action Peel
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Mostly blackheads, whiteheads and persistent congestion
✓ Reveal Face Polish
These treatments support healthy skin renewal while helping reduce congestion and promote clearer-looking skin.
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Avoid using your evening tonic on the same night as a weekly exfoliating treatment.
Dual Action Peel
Weekly Skin Renewal
When congestion and uneven texture persist
Fruit enzymes and gentle exfoliating acids encourage healthy skin renewal while helping improve skin texture and maintain clearer-looking pores.
✓ Encourages healthy skin renewal
✓ Helps refine congested skin
✓ Promotes smoother-looking texture
Reveal Polish
Gentle Texture Refinement
When skin feels rough or congested
A gentle polishing treatment that buffs away accumulated surface cells to help refine uneven texture and support a smoother, clearer-looking complexion.
✓ Refines rough skin texture
✓ Smooths the skin's surface
✓ Supports a healthier-looking complexion
Reveal Tonic
Gentle Enzyme Renewal
If Clarify Tonic feels too active
A gentle enzyme tonic that supports healthy skin renewal while helping maintain skin comfort. An ideal option for acne-prone skin that is also sensitive, reactive or becoming dry from active treatments.
✓ Encourages gentle skin renewal
✓ Helps refine rough, congested skin
✓ Supports skin comfort and barrier function
Weekly Mask
Choose the treatment that best matches how your skin feels that week.
Purify Clay Mask
Weekly Oil Balance
When skin feels oily or congested
A purifying clay treatment that absorbs excess oil, helps refine the appearance of pores and leaves skin feeling fresh, balanced and comfortable.
✓ Absorbs excess oil without over-drying
✓ Refines the appearance of pores
✓ Leaves skin balanced and refreshed
Soothing Hydrogel Mask
Barrier Recovery
When skin feels dry, irritated or overworked
Provides cooling hydration to help replenish moisture, comfort the skin barrier and support recovery during active treatment.
✓ Restores lightweight hydration
✓ Helps calm irritation and discomfort
✓ Supports a healthier skin barrier
Personalise you Ritual
As your skin's needs change, personalise your ritual with targeted products that provide additional barrier support, nourishment or antioxidant protection while maintaining clearer, healthier-looking skin.
Calm Moisturiser
Barrier Support Moisturiser
When skin feels irritated or compromised
Replace Purify Moisturiser with Calm Moisturiser to provide additional hydration and barrier support while maintaining comfort during active acne treatment.
✓ Helps calm sensitive skin
✓ Supports the skin barrier
✓ Maintains hydration without feeling heavy
B-Gentle Serum
Comfort & Barrier Support
When skin needs extra support
If active treatments leave your skin feeling sensitive or reactive, replace B-Strong with B-Gentle to provide additional niacinamide-powered barrier support while maintaining skin comfort.
✓ Helps calm visible redness
✓ Supports barrier recovery
✓ Maintains healthy skin function
Vibran-C Serum
Morning Antioxidant Defence
For mature acne-prone skin
Replace B-Strong with Vibran-C each morning to provide antioxidant protection while supporting brighter, firmer and healthier-looking skin alongside your acne routine.
✓ Defends against environmental stress
✓ Supports brighter, healthier-looking skin
✓ Complements healthy skin renewal
Advanced Skin Renewal
As your skin becomes comfortable with your Clarify & Balance Ritual, you may choose to introduce A-New Serum on separate evenings to support healthy overnight skin renewal.
Retinal may be particularly beneficial if you experience:
Persistent congestion
Post-breakout marks
Uneven skin texture
Adult breakouts
Early visible signs of skin ageing
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Alternate your evening treatments.
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Night One
Standard Night
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Cleanse
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Clarify Tonic
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B-Strong Serum
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Purify Moisturiser
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Night Two
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Cleanse
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A-New Serum
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Purify Moisturiser
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Night Three
Recovery Night
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Cleanse
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B-Strong or B-gentle
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Moisturiser
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Continue alternating throughout the week.
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Do not use A-New on the same evening as:
- Clarify Tonic
- Reveal Face Polish
- Dual Action Peel
Replace a Clarify Tonic Night for your exfoliant night
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Introduce gradually, beginning two to three evenings each week before increasing as tolerated.
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Continue using B-Strong on evenings when A-New is not used.
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As your skin adapts, alternate Clarify Tonic and A-New on separate evenings.
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Include one or two recovery evenings each week using only Repair Hydromist, B-Strong Serum and moisturiser. These quieter evenings help support the skin barrier while allowing your skin to adapt to active ingredients.
Why This Protocol Works
Healthy skin develops through consistency rather than intensity.
This protocol supports the biological processes involved in clearer-looking skin by helping maintain balanced oil production, minimise congestion, encourage healthy skin renewal and protect the skin barrier.
Over time, these consistent daily steps work together to support healthier skin function, helping skin appear clearer, smoother and more resilient.
FAQs
Yes—formulas are designed to treat breakouts while maintaining skin comfort.
Use Clarify Tonic 2–3 times weekly to avoid over-irritation.
Apply directly to active breakouts once or twice daily.
Yes—this system supports oil regulation, inflammation control, and healing.
Visible improvements typically begin within 1–3 weeks.
Continue Your Learning
Shanga academy
Understanding Acne → Why am I breaking out?
Niacinamide → Why B-Strong or B-Gentle?
Vitamin A → When should I introduce A-New?
Acids, Enzymes & Polish → How do I exfoliate safely?
Skin Barrier → Why shouldn't I strip my skin?
Morning vs Evening → Why does the routine change between AM and PM?