The End-of-Summer Skincare Reset: A 7-Day Detox Routine
The Skinsmith | 18th August 2025
Refresh. Rebalance. Renew Your Skin - Naturally.
After months of sun, sweat, sunscreen, and maybe a few late summer nights, your skin could probably do with a healthy reboot. That’s where the End-of-Summer Skincare Reset comes in: a simple, 7-day detox routine using nutrient-rich, plant-based products from Éminence Organics to help bring your glow back in time for autumn.
This one-week plan targets dullness, dehydration, clogged pores, and post-sun pigmentation and all without overwhelming your skin this summer
The End-of-Summer Skincare Reset: A 7-Day Detox Routine
🌿 Day 1: Deep Cleanse + Gentle Exfoliation
Goal: Remove impurities and surface buildup to help reset your skin with more effective results.
The 3-Step Routine:
🔹 Stone Crop Gel Wash – Cleanse your skin first with this refreshing daily cleanser to purify and balance your skin. With soothing and healing stone crop it is perfect to help reboot your summer skin.
🔹 Kombucha Microbiome Foaming Cleanser – With pre, pro and postbiotics this silky cleanser will infuse your skin with hydration and re-balance your skins microbiome.
🔹 Strawberry Rhubarb Dermafoliant – Mix a few shakes with water to make a scrubby paste and apply to skin in circular movements to gently polish and brighten your complexion.
The Quick Step Routine:
🔹 Barbados Cherry Enzyme Cleansing Powder – A unique cleansing powder with vitamin and antioxidant rich cherries and gentle botanical enzymes to gently remove surface impurities and dead skin cells. This 2-in-1 step is perfect for those with less time!
Pro Tip: Exfoliation boosts product absorption, enabling products to be more effective and revives summer-dull skin removing the top dead layer of skin cells.
💧 Day 2: Hydration Boost
Goal: Replenish moisture and hydration plus calm irritation caused by heat and sun exposure.
Try:
🔹 Birch Water Purifying Essence – Hydrates and strengthens the skin barrier, helping to protect and support your skin barrier function. Reduces redness and irritation but also tones and plumps the skin too…
🔹 Strawberry Rhubarb Hyaluronic Serum – Delivers deep hydration with multi-weight botanical hyaluronic acid. That means it locks in moisture, hydrates at the surface and also in the deeper layers of the skin for a hydrated, plumped, brighter complexion.
Follow with:
🔹 Stone Crop Whip Moisturizer – Soothing and rich, yet breathable…. But so much more and the ideal option for a reboot. Stone Crop helps to even out areas of uneven skin tone, reduces irritation, inflammation and redness, boosts skin natural repair processes, improves moisture and hydration in the skin, sooths sensitivity and promotes healing. To name a few of its wonderful properties…oh and it smells amazing!
🌸 Day 3: Detox + Clarify
Goal: Draw out impurities and reduce congestion, for a refreshed, renewed vibrancy for your skin
To Energise Your Skin Try:
🔹 Turmeric Energizing Treatment – Ideal for oily, congested areas, this is a real gem or a treatment masque as it contains energising Citrine gemstone! Mix the powder into a foamy mousse and apply with gentle circular movements and leave on for a minimum of 10 minutes. You will feel a lovely warming in your skin as the zeolite and turmeric detoxify and reboot your skin.
🔹 Clear Skin Willow Bark Booster-Serum – Follow your masque treatment with a booster serum to help target blemishes, heal up any breakouts, keep your skin clearer and balance excess oil production.
Tip: you can leave Turmeric Energizing Treatment on your skin for up to 30 minutes. To recharge the warming sensation, re-dampen the masque with water.
🌞 Day 4: Brighten and Protect
Goal: Fade the appearance of sunspots and prep your skin for an autumn with year-round sun protection.
Try:
🔹 Bright Skin Licorice Root Booster-Serum – Natural Hydroquinone Alternative from African potato and tara tree along with licorice and punarnava help to lighten uneven skin tone and sunspots for a brighter, healthier looking result.
🔹 Lilikoi Daily Defense Moisturizer SPF 40 – This is a multi-tasking SPF moisturiser as it not only shields your skin against UVA and UVB, it also protects your skin from blue light, and pollution. It is brimming with antioxidants and vitamins wrapped up in a non-nano, non-greasy mineral SPF.
🛁 Day 5: At-Home Spa Night
Goal: Relax and treat your skin to deeper nourishment and hydration all while you sleep.
Try:
🔹 Yam & Pumpkin Enzyme Peel 5% – Gently resurfaces and improves texture with gentle botanical enzymes and lactic acid. Collagen production is boosted, skin is refined and hyperpigmentation is reduced.
Brighten With -
🔹 Strawberry Rhubarb Masque – Jammed with antioxidants and vitamins this gorgeous masque helps plump, revitalise and firm the skin with naturally brightening and yummy strawberries.
Or Hydrate With -
🔹 Snow Mushroom & Reishi Masque – Ultra-hydrating and toning this masque helps to contour the skin, clear the complexion and hydrate the deeper layers for a more youthful appearance.
Finish With:
🔹 Facial Recovery Oil – This “liquid gold” strengthens and balances with clary sage and ylang ylang. A light-weight facial oil, perfect for healing, soothing and balancing any skin type.
Pro Tip: To save time and improve results, add a drop of facial oil to your masque and then leave your masque on and go to bed. (creamy Eminence masques work best for this!) Rinse it off in the morning and see how amazing your skin looks! (concerned about your linens, use an old pillowcase just in case
🌿 Day 6: Repair & Restore
Goal: Strengthen your skins natural protective barrier and reduce inflammation and dullness.
Try:
🔹 Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Serum – Loaded with antioxidants to help repair and protect your skin from free radicals and Vitamin C+E for healing, plumping and soothing results.
🔹Kombucha Microbiome Leave-on Masque -Help support and maintain a healthy skin microbiome with pre, pro and postbiotics in this leave-on masque. Apply instead of a moisturiser for a luminous, glowing complexion.
Or Try:
🔹 Calm Skin Chamomile Moisturizer – Ideal for sensitive, post-sun kissed skin. With arnica to help reduce redness, chamomile to reduce inflammation and calendula for healing this is a great all rounder for your skin reboot.
Optional: Use Stone Crop Hydrating Mist throughout the day to keep skin fresh, hydrated and dewy.
🌟 Day 7: Glow Day
Goal: Reveal radiant, balanced, end-of-summer skin with gorgeous mangosteens, brimming with antioxidants and vitamins.
Try:
🔹 Mangosteen Daily Resurfacing Concentrate – Smooths with gentle hydrating lactic acid and antioxidant-rich mangosteen. This “selfie-filter” in a bottle blurs imperfections, minimises pores and leaves skin radiant.
🔹 Mangosteen Gel Moisturizer – A lightweight gel-cream moisturiser leaves skin hydrated without feeling greasy! Skin will look energised and refreshed, pores are refined, and your complexion will be left glowing.
Bonus: Use a gua sha stone or try facial massage and facial yoga to boost circulation, firm muscles and reduce puffiness.
🌼 Final Thoughts
Your skin naturally takes on more stress during the summer months. A 7-day reset with Éminence Organics gives it the nourishment and restoration it needs — using clean, plant-powered ingredients that deliver visible results.
✨ Glow into fall feeling fresh, calm, and completely renewed.
Need help customizing your own skincare detox?
Stop by our shop in Sherborne or visit our website for more advice on building a routine that fits your skin goals (and your schedule).
You can also learn more by speaking to a member of our experienced and friendly team today on 01305 300950 or by emailing [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.