DIY face mask: the right recipe for your skin
Do-it-yourself face masks are an excellent, economical and environmentally friendly solution to treat your oily, dry or combination skin. They are simple to prepare and, most of the time, they require ingredients already present in your kitchen or in any case easy to find. They can also represent an "excellent alternative" to the purchase of specific anti-wrinkle masks, if made with the help of natural products targeted and effective for this purpose.
To understand which of the following masks is right for you, you must first identify your skin type. Oily skin, which requires specific masks against pimples, presents itself with lucidity, excess sebum, blackheads and more or less evident acne. It can be caused by hormonal problems, puberty itself or stress or a wrong diet. The most suitable recipes for this type of skin must be detoxifying, astringent and purifying, in order to reduce oiliness and narrow pores.
Dry skin, on the other hand, presents itself with that annoying sensation of "skin tightening", roughness, redness and particular sensitivity or itching. It can be worsened by environmental factors or, again, by dietary reasons and poor hydration. In these cases, the face mask will have a specific mission: to provide hydration. What you see below, for example, is a super-moisturizing and emollient homemade face mask recipe based on yogurt and rosemary, especially suitable for dry and particularly sensitive skin:
The face with combination skin, on the other hand, is perhaps the most complicated because it has features of both characteristics, and will need to moisturize some areas and purify others at the same time.
Another problem common to many women, especially from the age of thirty "onwards, is that of wrinkles, which are due to the loss of elasticity, the decrease in collagen and elastin, the reduction of subcutaneous adipose tissue, but also to bad habits such as exposure. prolonged UV rays and smoke.
1. Face masks for oily skin: the best against pimples, enlarged pores and excess sebum
Purifying clay mask
Excellent for detoxifying impure skin, it is very effective in its green variant, which is the basis of the recipe we recommend.
To prepare it, just get a container or a bowl of plastic, wood or ceramic (no metal!) And mix the green clay with water in it, so that it blends, creating a pasty mixture. Distribute this mixture all over the face, avoiding the eye contour and the lip contour, and let it act for about ten minutes, rinse with warm water.
Buy the 2.5kg pack of green clay on Amazon for € 13.04
Pear mask
The second recipe we suggest if you have oily skin is the pear-based one. This fruit, in fact, has known astringent properties that will help you narrow your pores and reduce the shiny effect.
Prepare it by putting a pear (peeled) and chopped into pieces with the juice of a lemon in a blender, until you get a homogeneous mixture. Apply the mask to your face after thoroughly cleansing it and let it work for a quarter of an hour. Rinse with cold water.
- banana
- honey
- yogurt
Black mask with vegetable charcoal
In particular, for those with blackheads, vegetable charcoal is excellent, an ingredient with a thousand beauty uses, especially for women with oily and impure skin. This is our recipe for an easy to make and super effective black mask.
Pour 3 teaspoons of charcoal and 2 teaspoons of distilled water into a bowl. Mix everything and after obtaining a homogeneous mixture, also add a tablespoon of honey. Keep stirring until the mixture reaches the right consistency, and add two drops of an essential oil of your choice to the finish. You can opt for that with chamomile, anti-inflammatory and with soothing power, with lavender, a natural calming with healing properties or with rosemary, with detox and astringent virtues. Apply the mixture obtained on your face and leave it on for 10-15 minutes. After these steps, rinse your face effectively but gently, using not too hot water, then pat it with a cotton cloth to remove any residue.
2. Three recipes of effective face masks for dry skin
Banana and honey mask
This fruit helps to moisturize the skin, as does honey with its softening and emollient power, and at the same time makes the skin softer and more luminous.
To prepare this mask, all you need to do is blend a ripe banana, a spoonful of honey and a spoonful of yogurt. Once you have obtained a homogeneous mixture, apply it on the skin and let it act for about a quarter of an hour. Rinse with cold water.
Moisturizing mask with egg and olive oil
Another "do-it-yourself" mask that is excellent for a face with dry skin is the one based on egg, oil and honey. The egg, in fact, has the ability to deeply nourish the skin, while honey and oil moisturize it in depth.
Prepare it like this: mix an egg yolk with a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and whisk the egg white until stiff. Then combine the two compounds and add a teaspoon of acacia honey (buy on Amazon for € 8). Spread everything on your face and leave it on for about twenty minutes before rinsing with warm water.
Yogurt and cucumber mask
This mix is a real panacea for dry and reddened skin. Cucumber is in fact known for its soothing and moisturizing virtues, which, combined with the nourishing ones of yogurt, will calm and adequately enrich these suffering skins.
To prepare this super soft mask with decongestant power, simply blend the cucumber and add to a jar of low-fat yogurt. You can leave it on for up to half an hour if your skin is particularly dry and needs a lot of nourishment.
3. Natural masks for the face with combination skin!
Ice tea and grape mask
If you have combination skin, the natural homemade mask for you is the one with green tea and cold grapes, two ingredients that will help you at the same time to obtain a refreshing and soothing effect that can moisturize, but also disinfect the T-zone. , where excess sebum generally occurs.
To prepare this mask, take the contents of two green tea bags, some green clay, 10 cold grapes (just put them in the fridge for some time) and an infusion of chamomile. Add the clay and tea to the blended berries and use the cold chamomile tea to blend. Once you get a homogeneous mixture, spread it on your face and keep it on for about twenty minutes, then rinse.
Lavender mask
Prepare it by pounding lavender flowers with rice flour in a mortar.
Dilute the powder obtained with two tablespoons of aloe vera gel and a teaspoon of honey.
Leave on for about a quarter of an hour, then rinse with warm water: this natural face mask will have the power to make it feel immediately in balance, acting on both dryness and the shiny effect due to sebum.
4. Anti-wrinkle masks: 2 recipes ideal for combating wrinkles
Avocado and olive oil mask
If the problem of your face is wrinkles, or you simply want to prevent them, you can try this mask with avocado and olive oil. Avocado, in fact, contains essential fatty acids that protect the skin from the free radicals they cause. aging. It also has great nourishing power, thanks to the high content of folic acid and vitamins that are excellent for skin health.
You can make your own wrinkle mask by mashing the pulp of half an avocado in a bowl and adding three teaspoons of olive oil. Mix everything and squeeze until you get a homogeneous mixture, then apply on the face by massaging with circular movements and leave on for about twenty minutes. Rinse with warm water.
Cucumber mask
And let's finish our roundup of natural DIY face masks with a timeless classic of organic masks: cucumber! This ingredient is a real cure-all for the skin, especially if it is oily, but with the addition of oil and honey it also acquires an anti-wrinkle power.
Blend half a cucumber with the addition of two teaspoons of honey, one of extra virgin olive oil, four teaspoons of yogurt and you're done! Spread on your face and hold on for half an hour.
