Skin Care Knowledge Base (FAQs)

No matter what season, skin care should include exfoliating, hydrating, repairing, and protecting year-round.

Exfoliate

We tend to think that in summer skin should be exfoliated more than in winter because it produces less oil. However, exfoliation in winter is equally important because of the long hours spent in dry air (outdoors or indoors). Some might think a heavy cream would hydrate, but without regular exfoliation, it will result in heavy layers of dead skin.

Shunri recommends using AHA + Rapid Exfoliator and AHA + Deep Gel Cleanser year-round. Use AHA + Deep Gel Cleanser twice a day, followed by a pH-balancing toner. AHA + Rapid Exfoliator will gently remove dead cells from your skin’s surface and hydrate it year-round.

Hydrate

All skin types/conditions require hydration to protect them from moisture loss all year, but especially in winter. Shunri does not use heavy, greasy moisturizers that stay on top of skin without penetrating into deeper layers. Instead, her products contain hyaluronic acid, which pulls water from the environment and provides a hydrating blanket of moisture to the skin without feeling greasy. Hyaluronic acid is a molecule that works like a sponge to bind moisture to the skin all day long.

– Products containing hyaluronic acid are beneficial for oily skin; the more water you deliver into your skin, the less oil the skin will produce.
– If your skin type is between normal to oily, use B3, B5 + Peptides Hydra Gel as your daily moisturizer serum and add SE + Apple Skin Stem Cells in winter.
– For those with normal to dry skin types, Shunri recommends using SE + Apple Skin Stem Cell as a daily moisturizer serum while adding Botanical-C + Peptides Gel Lotion in winter for maximum hydration and prevention from photodamage at the same time.

Repair and Protect

Regardless of the season, hyperpigmentation or dark spots can get darker, and redness can get worse. Protecting the skin from sunlight and repairing damage already done due to sun exposure is necessary. Most of us don’t realize that winter light can be just as damaging to our skin cells and promote hyperpigmentation and dark spots as much as in summer.

Even when the sky is cloudy, very strong UVA radiation penetrates deep into the skin, damaging the cells. Even if you cannot see any damage immediately, dark spots and wrinkles that appear years later result from such photodamage. UVA rays are constantly present, no matter the season or weather. They are so powerful that they also penetrate some clothing and even glass.

On the other hand, UVB rays are the ones you can feel just after sun exposure – like sunburn. Unlike UVA rays, these rays don’t always have the same strength but are responsible for causing most skin cancers. They’re stronger in summer months, and have the ability to reflect from the water or snow surface, therefore Shunri recommends using SPF protection all year round, even when the weather is cloudy.

Add SPF40 Light Moisturizer or Radiant Translucent SPF40 to your daily skincare routine year-round to protect the skin from environmental light and enjoy your youthful look longer.

Absolutely yes!
Toners have become a confusing category of skincare products. Because of misconceptions, many fashion magazines and cosmetics sales people advise against using a toner, or simply dismiss toners as an optional step. A well-formulated toner can provide truly amazing benefits to the skin and are essential for achieving a healthy, radiant glow. You’ll find that applying a toner can be the perfect addition to your skin-care routine!

Toners are recommended as a way to restore skin’s pH balance after using any kind of cleanser. This is because cleansers raise the skin’s natural pH to a level that isn’t good for your skin. After cleansing, the skin is out of pH balance, an alkaline condition much like a dry sponge. If we apply serum or moisturizer to skin without the right pH level, it’s like appling dish soap on top of a dry sponge. Dry sponge will not be absorbent and will stay in a dry condition and the dish soap will change, over time, from liquid to hard and just sit on top of the dry sponge. If you add water (correct the pH of the skin) to the dry sponge, the soap can penetrate easily. The skin after cleansing is the same concept and without bringing the correct pH level back to your skin with toner, you will just waste your serum or moisturizer. It will sit on top of your skin with nowhere to go and build up heavy layers that will lead to break-outs or irritation.

Remember that not every toner is the right toner. Toners with alcohol and astringent ingredients should always be avoided because they cause free-radical damage and irritation, these lessen your skin’s ability to repair itself and produce healthy collagen. Like with little bit of the water the dry sponge cannot have enough bubbles and irritate your skin with all the harsh chemicals. With the right water pH then there’s no need to use much soap, right?

Shunly Skincare’s FUSION FORMULA® pH toner is designed to create a healthy pH level, from 5.0pH – 7.0pH, this allows serum or moisturizer to penetrate to the epidermis layer.

With clean skin, the correct pH level from using pH≈SE+ Nutri Toner or pH≈CoQ10+ A-Oxy Toner, Shunly Skincare products will begin to restore and repair your skins’ surface and it will be ready for a healthy dose of what it needs to look younger.

The eye area plays a significant role in judging one’s age. Wrinkles, dark circles, and puffiness around the eyes all portray an older appearance. Treating the eye region, especially dark circles and swelling under the eyes, can make a tremendous difference inperceiving one’s years.

Shunly Skincare’s FUSION FORMULA® L-AA+ Instant Eye Gel delivers vitamin C to brighten eyes, improve discoloration and precisely target the first signs of aging beneath and around eyes.

Skin is sensitive to all changes, including our daily diet, weather, and temperature of the air. Changing skin care products may result in sensitivity and risk an acne breakout or some other reaction.

It’s safest to have a baseline skin care routine for year-round that you know it works well and doesn’t cause irritation or breakout. While keeping your baseline routine you can introduce one new products at a time. This way you can tell which products work or which might be causing a problem.

We’ve developed a baseline routine – Shunly Skincare’s 3 SkinCareActs™ – Prevent, Protect, Correct that encompass cleansing, toning, hydrating, and repairing skin issues. You might have to make some adjustments to toning and hydrating depending on the season, or add antioxidant to the baseline to improve skin’s elasticity. Our skin ages every year, adding Shunly Skincare’s FUSION FORMULA® antioxidant serum to the baseline routine will keep skin healthy and youthful looking in the long run.

Absolutely! Your should protect your skin from the minute you walk out of your house to the car, while you drive, stop for coffee, walk from your car to the office, get your lunch, back to the car and drive home, and any time the sun shining.

UVA rays are constantly present, no matter what season or the weather. They are so powerful that they can penetrate some clothing and even glass. You are constantly exposed to UVB rays during routine activities of every day life.

It is absolutely necessary to protect your skin from sunlight and repair damage from sun exposure all year.

No. There are no parabens in the entire Shunly Skincare line.

No testing has, or ever will be conducted on animals.

Your eyes, face and neck are your focal point and the area we most associate with personal identity. While repeated exposure to UV radiation results in premature aging of these areas, which encompasses a number of signs that reflect structural changes in the dermis, it is recommended to use the Shunly Skincare FUSION FORMULA® SPF over the face and neck area to slow down process of photo-aging. Shunly Skincare FUSION FORMULA® SPF is recommended for all skin types, including sensitive skin. It is gentle enough to protect the delicate eye area and the skin after aesthetic/clinical procedures.

We recommend cleansing your face in two steps for best results, whether you wear make-up or not. With make-up, dust, pollution and natural oil produced by your skin during the day, the first cleansing only removes that layer, the second cleansing will purify your skin. Follow this step-by-step for a perfectly cleansed face:

1. Start by washing your face with lukewarm water. You can use Shunly Skincare 3-in-1 Makeup Remover to remove make-up and any other residue, then rinse off.
2. Wash your hands with anti-bacterial soap to remove oil residue.
3. Apply a moderate amount of preferred Shunly Skincare cleanser, then build a lather with a small amount of water. Rinse your face thoroughly with lukewarm water.
4. Follow with a Shunly Skincare toner.

Pro Tip: Wash your hair before cleansing your face to avoid chemicals in shampoo causing facial breakouts or irritation.

The main function of human skin is to protect the body against infection, environmental stress and other external factors. However, skin’s ability to work normally is affected by its pH level. Therefore all Shunly Skincare toners are designed to bring back the optimal pH level to the skin.

The best way to use Shunly Skincare toner is to spray it all over the face, neck and decollete. Don’t use cotton pads to distribute the toner, simply allow skin to fully benefit from spraying the liquid. Use fingers to tap the toner until fully absorbed, then follow with Shunly Skincare antioxidant treatment (PREVENTION) in morning and serum (CORRECTION) in evening.

Shunly Skincare toners are recommended for all skin types to maintain healthy pH levels and to prepare skin for serum application. As a bonus, using toner will enhance absorption of other treatments.

Pro Tip: Double-up the use of Shunly Skincare toner in winter for extra hydration. Just wait until the first layer of toner is absorbed then re-apply.

Shunly offers several treatment creams that are a concentration of actives to ensure visible skin benefits. In order to see their fullest potential, follow these tips:

1. Use a penny-sized dab of treatment cream.
2. Use one fingertip to dot product over the face, neck and decolletage.
3. Use 4 fingertips to spread product evenly on the skin.

Serums contain a high concentration of powerful antioxidant actives to help reduce and eliminate sun damage. As a result of using them on a daily basis, your skin will appear younger, smoother and more beautiful in a natural way. It’s similar to taking vitamin supplements to help our immune system fight off infection or illness naturally. These powerful antioxidant vitamin serums boost skin’s ability to fight aging processes.

Shunly Skincare’s FUSION FORMULA® serums should be used on skin that is prepared and has the right pH level, therefore before treatment application, remember to cleanse and tone skin so the serum can interact better.