Skincare: Masks

I try to use a facemask once every week or two, so I thought I would share my face mask collection. I have a few different kinds that I use in rotation based on what I feel my skin needs at the time. 

First up is the Pangea Organics Facial Mask. It has Japanese match tea, acai, and goji berry in it and claims to be for all skin types. It also pretty much claims to solve all of your skincare woes. I like to think of this mask as a balancing mask and I use it when my skin is relatively good, but needs a little brightening. It is a green tinged brown mask with little particles in it and makes you look like some kind of swamp creature when wearing it, but I like the results. It helps to clear pores and exfoliates (when removing), yet doesn’t strip my face at all. 

Next is the CVS Purifying Mint Masque. This is the CVS knockoff of the Queen Helene Mint Masque. I use this down the center of my face when I feel like my pores are moderately clogged and my skin is not too dry at the moment. It helps clear out my pores, but definitely strips the skin a little. I like it, but I don’t think it is amazing.

The Bliss Steep Clean 15-minute Facial is probably my least favorite of my masks and the most expensive, so I can’t say I would recommend it. It claims to exfoliate your skin and clean out your pores, but I have never noticed a difference and a lot of times feel like my skin is greasier after using this. I still go back to it every once in a while thinking maybe it will work, but I am always disappointed. 

The last three I got as a set from Origins around Christmas time last year. The one on the left is Drink Up. It is a moisturizing mask that you leave on for ten minutes and then either rinse off or tissue off. I don’t use this very often even though I have dry skin. It works well, but I prefer to use an actual moisturizer when my skin is feeling dry. The mask in the center is the Clear Improvement mask. It is a charcoal mask that draws the impurities out of your face without drying it. This is my favorite mask of the ones I own. Last is the Out of Trouble mask. This mask is extremely drying, but it gets the job done when your skin is freaking out with oil, blackheads, and breakouts. I sometimes use this all over, but more often than not I just use it on problem areas. It uses zinc oxide, sulfur, and salicylic acid to tackle those trouble spots quickly. 

Those are the masks I use to keep my skin in line. I hope this post helped introduce you to some new products that might work for you (or keep you from buying something that doesn’t sound right for your skin).