Recipes for home made face masks!

Home made recipes for face masks that aren't only fun the make, they don't cost a fortune and benefit your skin too! win-win

Heyy:) Iv decided to do this blog post about face masks purely because its been requested quite a lot and just because their generally fun to do! Winter and the general effects of the environment can be very harsh on the skin causing to become very dry/oily /problematic.To get a decent face mask it can be very pricey and I don't trust cheapy ones as they have lots of nasty chemicals in that can be sometimes break you out even more and others I find just don't work! So why spurge on a £50 face mask when you can get all vitamins, minerals, essential acids and oils can be found in your kitchen?! 

I'm going to share with you my favourite face masks for the four main skin type groups....Hope this works for you too, enjoy! :)

• Oily skin: If your skin tends to be greasy and acne prone this means you have a production of the sebaceous gland. 
• Mature skin/ Anti ageing: This is when your skin produces less collegin therefore making your skin look looser and dull. If your 25+ your skin is classed as mature! (I know..ridic:/ ) 
• Sensitive skin: If you have sensitive skin and find that everything you use you have a reaction to or you have high pigmentation in the face. 
• Dry skin Treatment: If you suffer from flaky skin and  lack of natural oils. When the temperature changes, our skin becomes dry and vulnerable. Mask recipes may prevent and treat this problem. This is not the same as dehydrated skin as this has a lack of water content!!

( ALWAYS DO A PATCH TEST BEFORE TRYING ANY OF RECIPES BELOW )

Oily Skin- Honey & Cinnamon skin clearing mask 

Oily skin is caused by an excessive production of sebum, which clogs the pores in the skin.
This problem can cause the one the things that EVERYONE hates...ACNE! This is causes by clogged pores with bacteria inside.

So we want to clear up the pores and keep the sebum away, here's a face mask which I hope helps!

Ingredients 

• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoons cinnamon

Method

• Put both the honey and cinnamon into a bow and mix together
• Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds to warm up 
• Let it cool it then spread all over your face 
• Leave for 10-20 minutes and RELAX!

....Yes..its really that easy!

I absolutely larrrrvvveee this one because it feels like im smothering chocolate all over your face and you can eat it too! its so yummy aha and it really does make my skin less oily! Honey and cinnamon have anti-bacterial and anti- inflammatory properties therefore getting rid of any bacteria lurking in your pores which means less spots! yaaaay! I particularly don't have sensitive skin and don't react to many things so I am quite lucky in that sense but if you do have sensitive skin then I highly advice you to do a patch test on your skin 24 hours before as my friends had a bad reaction to this.

Mature/Anti ageing 

Unfortunately, nobody can escape the effects of ageing, but here's some facts to try help you understand a bit more about this skin type and how you can help it.

The ageing process, which happens to all of our body, is shown clearly on the first two layers of our skin which is known as the epidermis and dermis. A number of factors are involved when are skin skin ages from sun damage and hormonal effects which causes our skin the sagg and dry out..wah. But there's hope! To slow down the effects of ageing we need to feed our skin with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and the secret ingredient...Amino acids! But anyway enough of the facts.. here's another recipe!

Anti ageing serum:

Ingredients

• 20g Nori seaweed (can be found in good health food shops)
• Teaspoon olive oil

Method

• Soak the dry seaweed in water until soft
• Add olive oil
• Leave for 20mins
• Relax - After removal the effects can be seen straight away! Amazing!

Amino acids help build and maintain collagen which is lost as we age. They also give our a skin a radiance boost and makes it feel firmer. 

Moisturising is also veryyyyy important because mature skin tends to be more dryer so moisturise often and also use one with a SPF in it. 

SOS moisturising mask: Intensive 

Ingredients 

• Half of an avocado
• Half of a mango    

Method

• Mix both together
• Put on face and leave for 20 minutes
• Relax  

Sensitive skin  

Having sensitive skin can be a challenge to say the least because sensitivity can be caused by a number of things. Their are four sub-types of this problem: sensitive skin, rosacea, burning and stinging skin and dermatitis. Once you have found out what causes you to have sensitive skin, avoid the ingredients that cause this. 

Honey, milk and green tea face mask 

Ingredients 

• 2 tablespoons of runny honey 
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• 1 tablespoon of green tea

Method

• Mix together 
• apply on face 
• leave for 10 minutes
• take off luke warm water and moisturise afterwards 

Everyone who I have recommended this to all say that It works because of its gentle cleansing proprietaries. The milk has a calming effect on the skin, they also contain lactic acid which gently remove dead skin cells. Like I said before honey gets rid of any unwanted bacteria on the face therefore is an extremely beneficial ingredient. Green tea is packed full of antioxidants which will get rid of any impurities and also engage skin cell renewal.  

        

Dry skin 

Dry and irritated skin is usually caused by a deficiency of vitamin A in your nutrition, with the stimulation of the dry weather, often caused by air conditioning.
To help this it is essential that you have a constant supply of this vitamin which is found in fruits such as guava, bananas and avocado. In larger amounts you can find it in orange vegetables such as carrots.

Other reasons for dry skin can be free radicals, which accumulate in our body and weaken our skin. They easily enter our body because of the environmental pollution, bad habits such as excessive alcohol drinking and UV sunlight radiation. Here a final mask to help with dry skin :)

Avocado mask treatment 

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon avocado 
• 1 slice of orange 
• half a banana 

Method

• Mix all ingredients together 
• Apply on face leave for 20 minutes
• RELAX!!!!

So, that concludes my post for today. I really do hope that this has helped you and has given you a bit of guidance when it comes to skin care. I will be doing a more in depth post about each skin types and reviewing some more products. Hopefully you'll have some fun trying out some of these recipes :) 

Really hope you enjoyed reading this blog- let me know what you think and if they work for you!

Thanks for reading!

Love Harveer x