In our humble opinion, face masks are up there as one of the ultimate products you can indulge in for a pamper session.
Whether that be a clay, cream or sheet mask, the market has every option your heart desires. But what mask do you pick for your skin type?
To help you on your way, we have rounded up multiple options to cover everyone from combination and dry to acne-prone and sensitive skins, and everything in between. Find your best match below.
Sensitive
Dr. LeWinn's Recoverëderm Australian Marine Algae Rescue Mask
This gentle face mask is formulated to calm, soothe and comfort sensitive skin. Using luxurious bio-cellulose technology, this mask acts like a second skin to adhere perfectly to the face and deliver an instant and continuous moisture surge. It is loaded with a calming serum that is rich in Australian Maritech® Reverse, a marine algae extract which is clinically proven to calm the skin while also promoting skin elasticity. Aloe also hydrates and soothes the skin, while centella asiatica extract helps to enhance skin’s resilience.
Avène's latest mask helps restore the natural beauty of even the most sensitive skin. The antioxidant, natural berry extract, instantly delivers lipids to rebuild and strengthen the skin barrier so it’s able to maintain effective hydration and restore the skin’s natural balance. Formulated with ingredients of plant origin and enhanced with Avène thermal spring water, skin is left deeply moisturised and radiant, with signs of fatigue faded for a healthy, glowing complexion.
This sleeping face mask delivers intense nourishment and hydration to stressed skin. It is formulated with patented forest yeast, which provides 11.9 per cent more effective skin strengthening benefits than madecassoside. The gentle, hypoallergenic formula has passed dermatologist testing and sensitivity panel testing to help soothe skin.
Acne-prone and oily
Sulwhasoo's deep-cleaning, peel-off mask clarifies and minimises the look of pores. As a treatment to create clear and radiant skin, this mask features ground solomon’s seal, honey, and Japanese honeysuckle to leave skin glowing. The mask also provides a relaxing experience for the skin, with the calming scent of natural ingredients including pine, liquorice, conidium officinale, and angelica acutiloba.
Swisse Manuka Honey Detoxifying Clay Mask
This luxurious facial treatment from Swisse is formulated to draw out impurities and toxins, refine pores and improve skin texture to reveal a glowing, smooth complexion. Key ingredients include: Manuka honey, charcoal and Australian white kaolin clay.
mesoestetic anti-stress face mask
mesoestetic anti-stress face mask helps to reduce stress and decongest the skin. It has been formulated with aloe vera, pot marigold and chamomile extract which are known for their soothing, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Jurlique Purity Specialist Treatment Mask
Jurlique Purity Specialist Treatment Mask is a clay mask rich in natural ingredients to deeply cleanse skin and lift impurities. It contains apricot seed, karolin, rosemary and peppermint to exfoliate, smooth, soothe and invigorate skin.
Combination
Clarins SOS Mask Purifying - Combination / Oily Skin
This addition from Clarins is a non-drying, absorbent purifying face mask with a creamy texture that removes impurities and tightens pores in just 10 minutes. Skin is left free of impurities and can breathe. It is clean, refreshed, soft and radiant.
Garnier Skin Active Rescue Mask Matcha + Kaolin
A single dose face mask that purifies skin for fresh, matte and clean skin. The creamy formula combines matcha tea and kaolin clay. Suitable for combination and oily skin.
Bioré Blue Agave + Baking Soda Whipped Nourishing Detox Mask
Bioré Blue Agave + Baking Soda Whipped Nourishing Detox Mask is ideal for combo skin types. It contains natural blue agave, known for its ability to soothe and condition, and deep cleaning baking soda to help eliminate impurities, leaving skin clean, refreshed and nourished.
Dry and dehydrated
La Mer The Treatment Lotion Hydrating Mask
This luxurious sheet mask from La Mer has been designed with skin-hugging technology to deliver a concentrated infusion of renewing hydration. With a unique formula inspired by the sea, the mask is powered by La Mer’s nutrient-rich Miracle Broth™ and the revitalising ferment to help promote younger-looking skin. Within minutes, sensitivities appear soothed and skin is plumped and energised to reveal a healthy, hydrated glow.
Kosmea Energising Radiance Mask
Kosmea Energising Radiance Mask is an overnight treatment mask that gives skin a moisture boost, leaving it recharged, bright, and fresh. The facial mask offers intense hydration and nourishment for the skin, from natural ingredients, including jojoba oil, kakadu plum and moisture locking saccharide isomerate. Harness the healing power of rosehip oil and calendula to rebalance moisture, leaving the skin calmed and deeply nourished.
Dr.Hauschka Hydrating Cream Mask
This nourishing mask is formulated for dry, sensitive and sun damaged skin. Almond, avocado and jojoba oils nourish the skin, while quince extract imparts its moisturising properties. The mask promotes restoration and regeneration while stimulating the process of renewal. Use once or twice a week as an intensive skin care treatment.
Normal
Bellamer Botanical Skin Care Renewing Face and Neck Mask
Bellamer Botanical Skin Care Renewing Face and Neck Mask is a collagen-enhancing cream mask that combines anti-ageing calendula oil, camellia oil, and lavender in a jojoba and shea butter base.
Elizabeth Arden SUPERSTART Probiotic Boost Skin Renewal Biocellulose Mask
This face mask from Elizabeth Arden delivers double the probiotic power of SUPERSTART Skin Renewal Booster to support skin’s natural defences and improve skin’s resilience. The biocellulose mask infuses skin with concentrated formula that includes hyaluronic acid and a probiotic blend to help optimise its natural renewal process for radiant, smooth, healthy-looking skin in just one treatment.
Sisley Paris Black Rose Cream Mask
This iconic soothing mask from Sisley Paris instantly refreshes, smoothes and energises the face thanks to its plumping formula rich in trace elements, vitamins and anti-ageing active ingredients. The mask boosts the skin to restore a luminous complexion and skin that appears redensified in only 15 minutes. Its rose-scented creamy, fresh, easily applied texture plumps and moisturises skin, refreshes the face and lifts features. Can be used under make-up or apply at night on clean skin, avoiding the eye contour.
