The Sanctuary, Shanghai

Feel Safe at The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary was first founded by Su Lim and Lisa Young, both whom are passionate about skincare treatments and solutions. Su Lim is a nature-loving skincare specialist with over 25 years of experience in skin care and spa management. Su Lim is also a strong believer in ensuring that everyone should walk out of The Sanctuary feeling beautiful with healthy and make-up free skin. Lisa Young is an Ivy-League trained medical clinician, having graduated from UC-Berkeley with a research degree in Biochemistry and from Yale School of Medicine with a Masters in Medicine. Her extensive medical background saw her travelling and researching for the best medical methods to develop high quality and premium products for the customers.

At The Sanctuary, they believe in providing customers with genuine skincare services, using high standard hygiene and quality organic products. They are passionate about helping you with your skin problems and maintaining that healthy skin in the long run.

At The Sanctuary, they always strive to provide customers with the best facial and skincare experience. Every new customer will receive a thorough facial consultation, whereby an experienced consultant will formulate a facial regimen that is tailored to each individual client’s skin type. They offer a range of customized all-handwork facial treatments and organic therapeutic-grade products to ensure that your skin problems are solved in a safe and natural way.

Two particular products from The Sanctuary caught my attention:

Strawberry Fields

Their smart gel cleanser is the perfect solution to effective cleansing without drying out the skin. This deep cleansing gel will dissolve oil and dirt while leaving your skin pleasantly moisturized with a tinge of strawberry scent thereafter. Its secret ingredients include wheat proteins and strawberry oil. Strawberry oil, together with a chemical known as decyl glucoside, makes fat molecules dissolve in water, hence allowing it to be easily rinsed away. Due to its gentle nature, strawberry oil is generally used in all baby products as theyll. This product is highly recommended if you have acne prone skin.

The Day Shift

If you have an oily T-zone that is prone to breakouts and clogged pores, together with dry, red and sensitive cheeks, this unique cream, with effects lasting all day and all night, can help to heal your skin, bringing it back to its original shape. Awarded as our “Employee of the Year”, this cream helps to flush out the dirt and bacteria from your pores, while hydrating the skin as the same time. It locks in the moisture in your face, minimising pimples and breakouts. Another plus point is that it reduces fine lines and wrinkles to create a smoother and younger-looking skin.

Its secret ingredient? Hyaluronic Acid, in short, HA. HA is known as “the key to the fountain of youth”. Currently, no other biological substance can retain as much water as HA. It works its magic by sitting on the surface of the skin, drawing in moisture from the air and constantly releasing moisture to the skin. With its potent moisture retaining properties, this cream works its magic not only on acne skin, but also for skin that over-produces oil but lack the moisture.

With quality all natural organic products, a clean environment and a gentle facial that effectively extracts impurities form my pores, this is not just the best facial in Shanghai, this is the best facial I had EVER!