Adding face or facial mask usage to your regular skin care routine can be a great benefit and boost to the way you care for your skin.

Actually, facial masks are thin layers that blanket your skin and provide it with the necessary amounts of hydration, removing excess oils on its surface while also helping with the appearance of tiny pores on your skin.

All in all, giving your skin a facial mask treatment once in a while can be really soothing and relaxing for your entire body, more like giving you a spa-like experience in the comfort of your own home.

Benefits of using a facial mask

Depending on the ingredients that they come with, different facial masks provide different types of treatments to your skin.

Quite similar to using a face serum, facial masks also contain ingredients with high concentration levels to hydrate, plump and keep a balanced skin surface.

A few other benefits associated with using facial masks are –

• Face masks help in soften the skin surface and improve its elasticity.
  
  
• Face masks provide moisture and hydration if you have dry or dehydrated skin type.
  
  
• Face masks can be excellent to cleanse your skin pores and clear them from dead skin cell contents, all adding towards their refinement.
  
  
• Face masks also help in enhancing your skin tone and texture by reducing hyper-pigmentation.

Homemade clay face mask recipes

Even though you can always rely on using readymade off the shelf face masks, it is always a good idea to take out some time and make them at home.

Here we bring you three different recipes for making homemade facial masks in a quick and simple manner.

1. Anti-Acne Tea Tree Mask

Ingredients

• Bentonite Clay – One tablespoon
• Pure distilled or boiled water – One to two tablespoon
• Ground Oats – One tablespoon
• Tea Tree Essential Oil – Four drops

Procedure

• Starting tip – Since the recipe contains use of bentonite clay, avoid using any utensil, bowl, pot or container made of metal)
• Take a bowl or container and mix ground oats and bentonite clay in it.
• Add water to the extent that the mixture forms a paste like solution.
• Next add tea tree essential oil and mix further.
• Your face mask is ready.

Uniformly apply it to your skin in a blanket form and leave for 10 to 15 minutes. After this, wash your face with warm water and softly dry with a clean towel.

2. French Green Clay Mask with Essential Oils

Ingredients

• French Green Clay – One and a half              teaspoon
• Kaolin Clay – Half teaspoon
• Aloe Vera Gel – One and a half tablespoon
• Rose Water – One tablespoon
• Rose Essential Oil – Two drops

Procedure

• Take a pot and mix the kaolin clay and French green clay in it.
• Next add the essential oils, rose water and aloe vera gel in it and further mix thoroughly.
• Your facial mask solution is ready.
• Apply now to your skin or refrigerate it and use later.

3. Anti-Acne Honey Mask

Ingredients

• Bentonite Clay – One tablespoon
• Water – One tablespoon
• Raw Honey – One tablespoon (Raw honey can be easily arranged from any organic food shop near you or you can search online incase any honey farm can deliver it to you)

Procedure

• Starting tip – Since the recipe contains use of bentonite clay, avoid using any utensil, bowl, pot or container made of metal)
• Add all of the above three ingredients in a pot or bowl and mix thoroughly until it forms a paste like solution.
• That’s it. Your anti-acne honey mask is ready to use.
• Uniformly apply it to your skin in a blanket form and leave for 10 to 15 minutes. After this, wash your face with warm water and softly dry with a clean towel.