Types of Face Masks: Why are Face Mask Necessary?

petchaa
myskincare
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3 min readApr 13, 2024

Many people are probably wondering if face masks are a waste of time and have complicated steps. Just nourishing your skin isn’t enough? How is it better than nourishment? Let’s look at the advantages of using face masks together.

Do you know that? Just one facial mask can be equivalent to nourishing your skin for a whole month. Because it can be considered a treatment and deeply nourishes the skin at the same time. It’s like a quick shortcut to beautiful skin that helps make our skincare treatments work more efficiently. Now let’s take a look at the benefits of facial masks.

Benefits of Face Masks

#It helps adjust skin color to be smooth and consistent.

Facial masking helps stimulate people’s skin to receive more oxygen. It helps remove excess pigment. Improves the skin tone and inhibits the occurrence of dark spots.

#Wash away toxins and dirt from your face.

Facial masking cleanses the skin at the pore level. Most of these masks have the ability to suck out dirt or chemical residue from the pores. It will open the pores wider to allow various impurities to come out. Moreover, it helps reduce inflammation, skin irritation, acne problems, and large pores.

#It helps tighten pores.

Masking your face on a regular basis will help clean the pores more thoroughly. This is because the fat and various impurities that are clogged in the pores have been removed. It also helps remove dead skin cells, which cause the facial skin to look dull.

#Improve skin texture

It makes the skin gradually brighter and smoother. In addition, dark spots, red spots, and acne scars are also noticeably reduced.

#Support firmer and tighter skin.

Facial masking is one of the ways to deeply nourish the skin. That effectively helps slow down the deterioration of skin cells. It makes the skin stronger, looks healthy, is firm, and looks youthful, as well as helping to reduce wrinkles very well.

#Long-lasting makeup

It helps makeup last longer because when the skin is nourished until it is healthy and more moisturized, the skin will not peel or dry but will look healthy and glowing.

Types of Face Masks

Cream Mask

The mask cream acts to gently and effectively push the skin cream into deeper skin cells. Using a facial mask cream that is left overnight (sleeping mask) must be washed off thoroughly. Because the cream mask has a high concentration. If not completely washed out, it could clog pores.

Gel Mask

“Mark Gel” has a gel texture that is light and suitable for all skin types, especially sensitive skin. It helps the skin to be moisturized and accelerates skin regeneration and conditioning. Also, reducing dark spots and solving damaged skin problems like dry or flaky skin reduces acne.

Powder Mask

“Mark powder” is in the form of a powder that must be mixed with clean water to dissolve the powder. Then gently massage it onto your face. Leave it on for about 5–10 minutes, and then rinse it off. Most of them are powders extracted from natural herbs that help remove dead skin cells and make the skin more radiant.

Peel Mask

“Peeling mask” has the appearance of a clear gel. By applying it and leaving it in a thin layer until it dries. After that, slowly peel off, like peeling off a mask. This method can remove blackheads. Thoroughly cleans dirt remaining in the pores. It also helps remove dead skin cells very well.

Sheet Mask

“Mark Sheet” is a ready-made mask sheet that is coated with serum and various skin care extracts. It is very popular, focusing on creating moisture for the skin. Make the skin more smooth and firm.

Mud Mask

“Mud mask” is a mask that uses mud as the main ingredient. They mostly use high-quality clones, such as mud from volcanic ash or muddy sediment that is rich in minerals including magnesium, iron, calcium, silica, and potassium, which can remove dirt and absorb excess oil remaining on the face.

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