Herbal face masks are one of the funnest ways to blend beauty and medicine. By combining different herbal preparations with varying mediums like clay or oil, you can make a mask that caters to your exact skin needs! In this article, I’ll show you how to make a few different masks for some common skin concerns but feel free to mix and match ingredients!
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Rose and Gold Herbal Face Mask for Lines and Wrinkles
Gold and Rose are two deliciously luxurious and effective ingredients for treating fine lines and wrinkles!
Rose petals and rosehip seed oil are packed with antioxidants, vitamin A and C, and natural moisturizers. Rose petals are antibacterial and will sooth inflamed skin. Rose hip oil is hydrating, exfoliating and collagen boosting!
Gold is anti-inflammatory, rich in antioxidants and contains ions that can stimulate and improve the health of your skin cells. Gold also reflects light and when applied topically, leaves your skin looking extra luminous and radiant.
Honey is full of antioxidants, moisturizers and collagen boosters.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup rose petals
- 1 tablespoon rose hip seed oil
- 1 tablespoon raw organic honey
- 3 sheets gold
Instructions:
- Take a 1/4 cup of dried rose petals and crush or powder in a mortar and pestle or coffee grinder
- Combine Rose hip seed oil with honey and gold sheets.
- Stir the rose powder into the liquid ingredients by the table spoon until a paste is formed.
- Cleanse and exfoliate well before applying the herbal face mask to your face, neck and décolletage.
- Keep the mask on for about 20 minutes before washing off with warm water.
Charcoal and Tea Tree Clay Mask for Acne
Every single ingredient in this mask is an acne fighting super hero! Charcoal can absorb one thousand times its own mass and that is why it’s the main ingredient in Black Amish Drawing Salves!
Bentonite clay has negatively charged molecules and because many toxins and impurities are positively charged, the toxins bond to the clay and are washed away when you remove the mask!
Tea tree essential oil is anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial. It also has the ability to fade past acne marks!
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons bentonite clay
- 1 teaspoon activated charcoal
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 10 drops tea tree essential oil
Instructions:
- Combine the bentonite clay and activated charcoal.
- Add the apple cider vinegar until you have a thick mud consistency.
- Let the mixture bubble a little and then add the 10 drops of tea tree oil.
- Cleanse and exfoliate well before applying the herbal face mask and avoid the eye area.
- Once the mask has dried completely, remove the mask by rinsing it with warm water.
Spirulina and Matcha Antioxidant Herbal Face Mask for Sun damage
Each ingredient in this Spirulina and matcha mask contains powerful antioxidants as well as nutrients and moisturizers.
Spirulina is one of those incredible superfoods that you should be ingesting and smearing all over your body as often as possible. Spirulina contains: Folate, B12, vitamin E, vitamin A, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus, tyrosine, selenium, amino acids, fatty acids, beta-carotene, protein and a vast array of minerals…. Wow.
Spirulina is an incredible antioxidant and contains various compounds that can reverse sun damage and hyper pigmentation.
Matcha has ten times the antioxidants that other green teas have and is high in the antioxidant EGCG. EGCG is known to reduce the damage to DNA caused by UV rays and to calm redness and irritation. The high amount of chlorophyll found in matcha can also reduce the signs of photo aging and protect your skin from sun damage.
Honey is full of antioxidants, moisturizers and collagen boosters.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon matcha powder
1 teaspoon raw organic honey
Water
Instructions:
- Brew a strong, thick tea with matcha powder and warm water.
- Combine one tablespoon of the tea with the honey and combine.
- Add the tea and honey to the spirulina powder until you have a mud consistency.
- Cleanse and exfoliate well before applying the herbal face mask to your face, neck and décolletage.
- Keep the mask on for about 20 minutes before washing off with warm water.
- Drink your left over matcha tea and add some Spirulina to it for a boost!
Lavender Niacinamide Ultra Moisturizing for Dry Skin
Niacinamide, or B-3, is a popular nutrient in skin care. It has an array of benefits when taken internally but also can heal, rebuild and moisturize your skin when applied topically. Niacinamide can also help grow your lipid barrier, helping to keep in your skins moisture and protect against oxidative stress like pollution or sunlight.
Glycerine is a powerful humectant that draws moisture to itself. When applied topically, glycerine draws moisture from the air and deposits it directly into your skin.
Lavender essential oil is an amazing moisturizer, anti-inflammatory and cleanser making it a very gentle and non-comedogenic (pore clogging) moisturizer.
Oils are amazing moisturizers for the skin but can sometimes lead to breakouts because of their heaviness and tendency to clog pores. Jojoba oil however, is so similar to our skins own sebum that it is much less likely build up on our skin and is non-comedogenic! This also means our skin is much more likely to absorb its moisturizing goodness deeper into our skin layers.
Ingredients:
1/8 teaspoon Niacinamide powder
1 tablespoon Glycerine
1 tablespoon Jojoba oil
Muslin or cling wrap
Instructions:
- Mix the niacinamide powder into the glycerine until dissolved
- Cleanse and exfoliate the skin
- Apply the serum all over the face, neck and décolletage and massage applied areas
- Combine the Jojoba oil and lavender oil
- Rub the oil mixture in your palms and pat all over your face, neck and chest to seal in all the moisture
- Cover the treated areas with cloth or cling wrap to allow your skin to full absorb the mask
- Wash off with a gentle cleanser or, for extra moisturization, leave on over night
Calendula, Comfrey and Chamomile Soothing Herbal Face Mask for Healing Wounds
Calendula, comfrey and chamomile are some of the most popular and versatile herbs in herbalism for very good reasons. Their uses internally and topically are way too vast to go into in this post so I will just touch on some of their amazing topical benefits.
Calendula contains a hefty dose of triterpenes, flavonoids, saponins, essential fatty acids, and antioxidants making this flower the perfect anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, sun damage reversing, lipid barrier increasing, infection evading, wound healing super flower!
Comfrey is one of the very best herbs for healing the skin because its chalked full of a constituent called allantoin. Allantoin is the ultimate skin rebuilder and is found in many cosmetics today because of this amazing ability. Allantoin moisturizes the skin, separates dead skin cells from healthy cells, stimulates new skin cells to form and stimulates collagen (the glue) to bind all the healthy and new cells together. Because of its amazing ability to speed up skin healing, never use comfrey on a deep cut or puncture wound.
Chamomile has been used as a wound healer for thousands of years and is backed by some incredible modern day studies. Here is a study comparing the efficacy of chamomile oil and a topical steroid. In this study, chamomile oil proved to be more effective at healing the skin than the synthetic steroid.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Calendula flowers
1 teaspoon Comfrey root
1 tablespoon vitamin E oil
10 drops Chamomile essential oil
Instructions:
- Gently cleanse the areas you would like to treat.
- Grind the dried calendula and comfrey into a fine powder.
- Mix the vitamin E oil and the ten drops of chamomile oil together.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients until you achieve a smooth, mud like consistency.
- Apply the herbal face mask to the areas needing treatment for 20 minutes.
- Rinse off the mask with warm water.
I hope you enjoyed learning about these wonderful uses for herbs in skin care and I hope you try out one of these awesome masks and let me know how you liked it! If you would like to learn about how to enjoy the benefits of taking herbs internally, take a look at my post on How To Make a Tincture.
