Make Your Own Natural Facemasks

Store bought facemasks can be quite expensive and they very often have a lot of chemicals in them that could irritate sensitive skins, here are some masks that you can make with all natural ingredients.

A run down of the ingredients and their functions:

Cucumber: soothes skin and temporarily tightens pores.

Chickpea flour: Nourishing and firming.

Banana: Soothes and moisturises

Honey: Both moisturising and exfoliating

Egg white: Temporarily tightens skin and pores

Egg yolk: moisturising.

Natural yoghurt: Soothes and also acts as a mixer as some ingredients should not be put directly onto the face

Mature skin.

Mature skin needs to be treated with a great deal of care because it can often be prone to dryness and highly sensitive.

Chickpea flour firming mask.

You will need:

1 teaspoon chickpea flour

2 teaspoons water

1 teaspoon of honey.

Mix the ingredients together, apply to the face and leave for 15 minutes then rinse thoroughly.

Mature sensitive or dry skin.

Banana and honey mask.

You will need:

½ a banana

1tablespoon of honey

2 tablespoons of natural yoghurt.

Mix the ingredients together to form a paste, apply to the face and leave on for 20 minutes. Remove the mask with a damp towel and rinse your face thoroughly.

Combination skin.

Cucumber face mask.

You will need:

1 cucumber

This is the easiest of all of the masks to make, simply blend around 6 inches of cucumber to a pulp. Apply to the face and leave for 20 minutes, rinse thoroughly.

Sunburned skin:

You will need:

1 potato.

Grate the potato and apply the pulp to your face, the potassium contained in the raw potato will help to ease any sunburn.

Dry skin.

Egg yolk mask.

Simply apply the yolk of an egg all over your face, leave for 10 minutes then rinse thoroughly.

Oily skin.

Egg white mask.Apply egg white all over your face, leave for 10 minutes then rinse thoroughly.