5 easy homemade face masks to make

With such a wide range of cosmetic and beauty products, sometimes it can be an impossible mission to find the formula that best suits our needs.

Night creams, day creams, facial tonics, serums, eye contours, and countless more items. All from different ranges, prices, and brands, with active ingredients we had never heard of, and the latest innovations from cutting-edge research in the world of cosmetics.

Amid such a jumble of products, face masks, a type of ointment with high concentration of active ingredients and a great power to offer benefits in record time, it is crowned as one of the treatments par excellence to achieve beautiful skin from home.

The best part is that it is not necessary to spend a fortune on a facial mask to enjoy its properties: we can create our own homemade one with simple and easy-to-find base ingredients.

Do you want to know more about how to make homemade masks? We tell you everything in this article!

What is a face mask for?

Each facial mask can serve to achieve a specific goal: moisturizing the skin, exfoliating, removing impurities and oils, leaving the skin smoother, eliminating wrinkles, adding radiance, preparing the skin before makeup…

The main differences are found in the ingredients we use for their preparation. Depending on our facial needs, we will choose one composition or another.

Although there are mixed masks that can meet different needs, generally, we could classify them into the following groups:

• Moisturizing masks.
• Purifying and oil-reducing masks (to prevent the appearance of acne).
• Soothing masks for sensitive skin.

• Flash effect masks (with anti-aging active ingredients, reducing expression lines and providing extra radiance).

5 easy-to-make homemade facial masks

Now that we know exactly what a facial mask is and what they are used for, we are going to suggest 5 recipes you can prepare at home with basic and easy-to-find ingredients.

Strawberry mask for young skin

If you need a mask to help keep your dark circles at bay and as early prevention against expression lines, you're in luck. This delicious fruit is an excellent ingredient to prepare a homemade mask for young skin.

Strawberries are a source of vitamin E and antioxidants. They will help us maintain our healthy, impurity-free, and radiant skin. Also, by providing us with countless antioxidants, they also protect skin cells from free radicals.

As if that weren't enough, they are an excellent remedy to reduce puffiness and dark circles around the eyes, thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties. Just place two slices of strawberry on the eyes for 10 minutes.

We suggest a mask with base of crushed strawberries and honey. Apply it for 15 minutes twice a week and you will be amazed by the results.

Multifunctional oat mask

Oats, besides being a superfood tremendously beneficial for our health, it is also a very powerful ingredient to make a good facial mask.

Depending on the ingredient we add to the oats in the mixture, we will achieve different results. In this way, we can make the following combinations:

• Oats + milk: will provide us with moisturizing benefits.
• Oats + tablespoon of honey: is excellent for reducing the concentration of oil on our facial surface.
• Oats + lemon + egg: is a natural remedy to reduce shine on the face.
• Oats + sugar + orange: applied once a week, it is an ideal mask to exfoliate the face.

Discover more about the properties of oats and their benefits in this article.

Antibacterial yogurt mask

Surely yogurt is one of those products that never run out in your fridge. If so, you already have the main ingredient to prepare a homemade mask with antibacterial and moisturizing properties.

In this regard, we suggest two variants:

• Yogurt mask with lemon: with 3 tablespoons of sugar-free yogurt and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. All well mixed in a bowl without lumps. We leave it on for 20 minutes (important not to get in contact with the eyes) and we will have a tonic effect practically instant.
• Yogurt mask with coffee: if besides the antibacterial properties, we also want to take advantage to exfoliate the skin, coffee can be a great addition to our homemade facial mask.

Discover here other properties of coffee very interesting for your health.

Mask to reduce skin spots

If our main problem is spots caused by sun exposure and acne marks, we can also make a facial mask specially designed to combat these visual effects on our face.

For this, we will only need 3 tablespoons of red wine and 3 tablespoons of honey. We should mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and let it cool in the refrigerator.

The application time is between 15 minutes and 20 minutes, and because its ingredients are gentle on the skin, you can apply it more than once a week (even 3 or 4 times if you see your face tolerates it well).

Besides removing facial spots, it is also a exfoliating and antioxidant mask. Also, it helps to eliminate wrinkles and dead cells.

Besides this, you can combine your facial routine with a anti-spot cream that we recommend in this post. They are the best on the market!

Avocado and oil mask for dry skin

Finally, we are going to suggest a homemade mask ideal for dry skin that needs an extra boost of hydration.

This ointment is ideal to apply before going to sleep, since the properties of its two main ingredients can act more thoroughly during the night.

For its preparation, you will only need an avocado and two tablespoons of olive oil extra virgin. The avocado pulp is mashed with a fork and the oil is added little by little while mixing everything. The result should be a mask with a creamy texture.

The acting time is 15 minutes. Afterwards, we will remove the residue with warm water. To enhance its properties, we recommend applying the moisturizing cream night before going to sleep.