The Facial High

The Facial High

Ayuna
Benefits
  • Hydrating
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Brightening
  • Pore-Tightening
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Supports Microbiome
  • Barrier-Strengthening
The Ayuna Facial High is an enhanced strength prebiotic toner with advanced microbiota technology to balance the skin microbiome. Its powder-based, plasma-rich formula purifies, minimises pores, and controls oil production, leaving the skin intensely hydrated and unified in complexion.
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The Ayuna Facial High is an enhanced strength prebiotic toner with advanced microbiota technology to balance the skin microbiome. Its powder-based, plasma-rich formula purifies, minimises pores, and controls oil production, leaving the skin intensely hydrated and unified in complexion.
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£95
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More Info

  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + Ingredients
Who it is for
Green tick
For you if
  • Oily Tendency
  • Congested
  • Enlarged Pores
  • Uneven Tone
  • Uneven Texture
  • Weakened
Red Cross
Not For you if

Seeking Exfoliation

Sensitive

Thin Skin

How to Apply
Shake well before use. Apply morning and/or evening on clean skin. Gently massage with the tips of the fingers or a cotton pad on face, neck and décolleté. Apply from centre of face outward, beginning with the face and ending on décolleté. Ensure to avoid other exfoliating products whether they be chemical or physical.
Smell & Texture

Smells Like: It has a raspberry vinegar scent.

Texture: It comes in a powder-liquid form with a water-like texture.

Ingredients

Water (Aqua), Vinegar (Acetum), Glutamic Acid, Succinic Acid, Propanediol, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, Glyceryl Caprylate, Morinda Citrifolia Callus Culture Lysate, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Fruit Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment*, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract*, Gluconolactone, Lactobacillus*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Tocopherol, Beta-Sitosterol, Squalene, Fragrance (Parfum)**, Citric Acid. *Natural and Probiotic Preservatives

*Natural and Probiotic Preservatives

**Natural Essential Oil Based Fragrance (Gurjum Balsam, Holy Wood, Myrrh, Chamomile, Rosemary)

The Benefits

Microbiome Balancing

Microbiome Balancing involves maintaining a healthy balance of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that live on your skin. Your skin's microbiome is crucial for protecting against pathogens, regulating pH, maintaining a healthy barrier, and ensuring optimal hydration. A balanced microbiome leads to clearer, healthier skin that’s more resilient to irritation and inflammation. Probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics are key ingredients that support a healthy microbiome. Probiotics introduce beneficial bacteria, prebiotics fuel the growth of good bacteria and help balance pH, and postbiotics enhance hydration and strengthen the skin barrier. This combination helps your skin stay healthy and vibrant.

Hydrating

Hydration is all about the water content in your skin that keeps it supple and healthy. Humectants, ingredients with water-binding properties, deliver this hydration by attracting water molecules from the atmosphere. For the best results, apply hydrating serums right after a shower. Humectants not only replenish your skin's hydration but also enhance its water retention, creating a long-lasting hydration reservoir. Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

Complexion-Evening (Anti-Blotchiness)

Evening skin tone is all about reducing blotchiness and achieving a more uniform complexion. Skincare products designed for this purpose use a blend of active ingredients, including soothing agents, anti-pigmentation compounds, antioxidants, and skin-restoring elements. These ingredients work together to diminish redness, inflammation, and pigment irregularities caused by inflammation, while also strengthening and protecting your skin against environmental irritants and future damage. This promotes healing and resilience, leaving your skin more balanced, radiant, and beautiful.

Brightening

Brightening your skin means restoring its natural glow. One of the best ways to do this is through exfoliation. By exfoliating, you promote faster skin cell turnover, replacing old, damaged cells with fresh, radiant ones. This keeps your skin looking vibrant and healthy.

Pore Tightening & Minimising

Pore minimising involves reducing the appearance of enlarged pores. Enlarged pores often result from excess oil production and accumulated impurities, which stretch them over time. ageing also plays a role, as reduced skin elasticity makes pores more visible. Pore-minimising formulas tackle these issues by regulating oil production and boosting collagen and elastin to enhance skin elasticity. This helps pores return to their natural, less noticeable shape, giving your skin a smoother, more refined look.

Skin-Barrier Supporting

Restoring your skin barrier involves replenishing the key elements found in the top layer of your skin (stratum corneum), resulting in a stronger and healthier barrier. These essential elements include lipids (ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and Natural Moisturising Factors (amino acids, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Various factors such as incorrect skincare use, seasonal changes, and aesthetic treatments can damage your skin barrier. When this happens, your skin loses excess water through Trans Epidermal Water Loss (T.E.W.L) and becomes less able to defend against environmental stresses, leading to dryness, sensitivity, and irritation.

A healthy skin barrier is crucial for maintaining overall skin health, as it helps prevent moisture loss, protects against environmental damage, and reduces the risk of skin conditions like eczema and acne. Replenishing these essential elements ensures your skin stays hydrated, resilient, and protected.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant Protection shields your skin and preserves its youthful glow. It refers to a defence system that protects against harmful molecules and keeps your complexion healthy and radiant. Free radicals, those incredibly reactive molecules, come from everyday sources like sunlight, diet, smoking, and pollution. They attack healthy cells, accelerating skin ageing, causing wrinkles, loss of firmness, pigmentation, and dullness.

Incorporating antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, into your skincare routine creates a protective shield on your skin. These powerful ingredients neutralise free radicals, preventing them from causing damage. The result is skin that stays youthful, firm, and luminous.

Anti-Inflammatory

Anti-Inflammatory skincare soothes, heal, and balance your skin, the targeted actives are designed to reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your body's natural response to injury or irritation, but continuous inflammation can lead to troublesome skin conditions like acne, rosacea, or eczema. Our anti-inflammatory skincare solutions work to soothe and calm your skin, reducing redness, swelling, and discomfort to provide much-needed relief. By strengthening your skin's barrier, these products help protect against further irritation and damage. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory actives support your skin's natural healing processes, leading to a more balanced and resilient complexion.

  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Complexion-Evening (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Brightening
  • - + Pore Tightening & Minimising
  • - + Skin-Barrier Supporting
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory

Active Ingredients

Plant-Based Squalane

Plant-based Squalane is a skin-identical lipid with a high affinity for the skin. Naturally found in human sebum, it enhances the skin's barrier function and promotes efficient water retention. Lightweight and non-comedogenic, squalane is suitable for all skin types.

Glutamic Acid

Glutamic Acid, a naturally occurring amino acid, it acts as a potent humectant, attracting and retaining water molecules to maintain optimal hydration levels. By boosting hydration in the skin, Glutamic Acid helps to maintain efficient cell turnover, smooth the skin's texture and plump up wrinkles, leaving the complexion soft, supple and rejuvenated.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a powerful oil-soluble antioxidant renowned for its excellent skin-protecting and replenishing properties. It helps prevent premature ageing by safeguarding skin cell membranes from damageing free radicals. Its nourishing qualities strengthen the skin barrier, enhancing resilience against environmental aggressors and improving water retention by reducing trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL). Additionally, Vitamin E has soothing effect thanks to it anti-inflammatory properties.

Fermented Lactobacillus & Cocos Nuci-fera

Fermented Lactobacillus & Cocos Nucifera Extract is derived from the fermentation of Lactobacillus Bacteria and Coconut Juice. This process releases natural sugars that serve as probiotics on the skin, enhancing the balance of the skin microbiome. It promotes the growth of beneficial microorganisms while safeguarding against harmful bacteria. In addition to supporting the microbiome, it functions as a natural preservative and skin softener.

Beta-Sitosterol

Beta-Sitosterol is a plant-based fatty acid with a composition similar to cholesterol, a natural component of the skin barrier. Due to its barrier-replenishing properties, Beta-Sitosterol effectively combats dehydration and dryness. Rich in anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds, it offers soothing, protective, and anti-ageing benefits. This multi-benefit ingredient helps to protect the skin form environmental aggressors, promoting a healthier, more resilient complexion while reducing sensitivity.

Plasma rich Noni Cell Factors

Plasma Rich Noni Cell Factors are extracts from the Noni plant rich in bioactive compounds and prebiotics. In the skin it work by balancing and protecting the skin's natural microbiome, making skin clearer and healthier. Noni cell factors improves skin texture, diminishes imperfection, and reduces the appearance of enlarged pores, leaving skin visibly smoother, even toned and more radiant.

Raspberry Vinegar

Raspberry Vinegar is a powerful skincare ingredient utilised to enhance ingredient penetration, balance skin pH, and tighten pores. Enriched with antioxidant Vitamin C, it brightens dull skin, protects collagen integrity, and promotes a firm, smooth complexion

Succinic Acid

Succinic Acid is a natural antimicrobial acid found in the body. In skincare, it is known for its oil-regulating and anti-inflammatory properties. Succinic Acid regulates sebum (oil) secretion and tightens pores; making it a fantastic and less irritating alternative to Salicylic Acid (BHA), for acne prone skins, suffering with sensitivity.

  • - + Plant-Based Squalane
  • - + Glutamic Acid
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Fermented Lactobacillus & Cocos Nuci-fera
  • - + Beta-Sitosterol
  • - + Plasma rich Noni Cell Factors
  • - + Raspberry Vinegar
  • - + Succinic Acid

Spotlight

Plasmas Rich In Botanical Cell Factors

These powerful skincare plasmas are derived from the stem cells of Pomegranate, Arabian Cotton, and Green Carrot, each targeting specific skin concerns such as pigmentation, photo-damage, and sensitivity. By harnessing the regenerative power of plant stem cells, these ingredients work synergistically to revitalise and protect the skin. The combined action of Pomegranate, Arabian Cotton, and Green Carrot stem cells delivers a range of benefits, including a more even skin tone, reduced hyperpigmentation, increased luminosity, enhanced natural defence mechanisms, accelerated skin repair, resistance to photo-ageing, and reduced redness. This comprehensive approach helps the skin look and feel repaired, resilient, and radiant. Plant stem cells are rich in bioactive compounds that interact with the skin’s natural biosynthesis processes through specific signalling pathways. Pomegranate stem cells target hyperpigmentation and promote a more uniform skin tone, Arabian Cotton stem cells bolster the skin’s natural defence against environmental stressors and photo-damage, while Green Carrot stem cells focus on soothing sensitivity and enhancing skin repair. Together, these stem cells optimise cellular regeneration, fortify the skin barrier, and improve overall skin health, providing a potent defence against ageing and external aggressors. Regular use of these plant stem cell plasmas leaves the skin feeling smooth, revitalised, and protected.Users often report a noticeable reduction in pigmentation, enhanced radiance, and a significant improvement in skin resilience and overall appearance. This blend of stem cell plasmas offers a holistic skincare solution, addressing multiple skin concerns with precision and care. By integrating these advanced bioactives into your routine, you’ll enjoy a rejuvenated, balanced complexion that looks and feels stronger, more luminous, and beautifully resilient.

Why I love it

  • “I absolutely adore the marriage of pioneering technology with a truly environmentally friendly approach. Beautiful textures, beautiful scents ... beautiful products.”

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

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    £95

    Transform your skin in one simple step.

    The Facial High by Ayuna visually transforms your skin, improving its texture and appearance. This daily purifying lotion balances oil and skin microbiota, minimises the size of your pores and evens your skin tone.

    The Facial High incorporates a trio of amino acids (30%) housed in a colloidal system (powder-in-lotion) that are gradually released to prevent discomfort while maintaining an optimum pH range to effectively renew and smooth your skin texture.

    Your skin will be left poreless, hydrated with a unified complexion and a luminous glow.

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