Face masks are a perfect way to reinforce your at home skin care routine. Using one about once a week really does achieve results. It is important to know which suits your particular skins needs, as ‘for all skin types’ doesn’t always mean it will exactly suit yours. I’ve picked seven masks with specific comments to help you choose the right one.
ROSVEDA-Mature Skin Mask
This is a professional quality, gorgeous mask. The specifically chosen ingredients are expertly sourced using authentic Ayurvedic knowledge. With no petrochemicals, it is unique in that it is clay-based but designed for mature skin and can be customised using special oils to make it more emollient for dry or sensitive types. An impressive product that will be favoured by those who chose products for their holistic properties. Excellent for mature, sluggish, neglected or dull skins.
Available from: beauty therapists only. For stockists call 96 250012. Nicosia 99 548338
Price: £25
DARPHIN-Intral Masque
Soft, creamy and very gentle. This product is perfect for skins that are normal to dry and suffer extreme sensitivity or reactiveness. In other words, skin which is very pink with dilated or broken capillaries that needs calming or thin, fragile, normal and dry fair complexions that need a soothing effect rather than stimulation. These skins cannot tolerate most masks but this one will be a godsend for them.
Available from: Call 25 711016 for your nearest stockist
£26
ERICSON LABORATOIRE-Botu-Like Masque
This mask is highly specialised and is available through professional therapists. It has an amazingly velvety, melt into the skin texture. Very moisturising. It is scientifically formulated to treat deep and surface wrinkles. You’ll feel the effect of this mask even the day after use as it smooths and nourishes wrinkled skins with its enzymatic action and Botulin mimicking effect, which carries on working on the skin even after removal. Will perfectly suit mature, wrinkled skins that are dry or normal. Very rich and luxurious in feel.
Available from: For details/stockists call 22 773736
Price: £40.50
JURLIQUE-Moor Purifying Mask
A gently setting, clay-based mask whose virtues are that it’s 100% organic, will cleanse and purify skin without being too harsh or drying so can confidently be used on oily, pimply or spotty skin even if it has a tendency to sensitivities to other harsh clay masks. The quality and effectiveness of this product are characteristic of the Jurlique brand. Dilute with a couple of drops of water as you apply as it’s concentrated.
Available from: To order call 25 814814. Nicosia 99 548338
Price: £25.50
GUINOT-Masque Essential
A true classic. This inimitable mask has been recommended by therapists for generations. Creamy, non-setting texture. I call this a clever mask because it suits many skin types. For skins which need hydrating, are dull, tired or need a boost. One of the few moisturising masks that can be used even on blocked pores without adding oil or exacerbating slightly oilier types. Good for normal to dry, combination to dry, mature or dull skins and dark eye circles.
Available from: For stockists call 22 879006
Price: £16
APIVITA-Firming Face Mask
A cream/gel consistency with a pleasant fragrance. I found this mask to have quite a reviving effect on skin. It did plump up the skin to give a firmer look and feel. While I thought it was a gook mask I wouldn’t consider it an ‘all skin types’ mask. Would work well on normal and dry, dull and slack skin with poor circulation. Anyone with spotty, oily, pimply or sensitive skin would suit another product. The sachet packaging is a great idea.
Available from: pharmacies
Price: £1.95 for a double sachet
FOREVER-Marine Mask
A clay based, setting mask which goes on smooth and fresh with no overbearing fragrance. Contains lots of natural ingredients with moisturising properties but sets very hard on the face, so in my opinion would suit very oily, young, thicker and non sensitive skin types or as blackhead shrinker for noses!
Available from: 96 740644
Price: £10
