Mint Julep Masque
Clay Mask
My skin is on the oily side. Browsing through Instagram, I found out about GlamGlow, but it is just too expensive. It is a face mask made out of clay and volcanic ash that draws out oil and blackheads on your face. Patches or dots of oil would be visible when the mask dries out. That means it is actually absorbing and drawing out the oil on the skin... but enough about GlamGlow.
Here is a mask that is much cheaper but utilizes the same principle - using clay to draw out blackheads and excess oil on the skin. Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque has bentonite. Bentonite is an absorbent clay. It is used to absorb grease and oil. It can also be found in commercial cat litter.
Ingredients: Water, kaolin, bentonite, glycerin, zinc oxide, propylene glycol, sulfur, chromium oxide greens (CI #77288), fragrance, phenoxyethanol, methylparaben.
I also checked out GlamGlow's ingredient list, and they similarly have kaolin and montmorillonite (this is what bentonite mostly consists of).
This is how the product looks like. Green thick toothpaste-with-baking-soda-like consistency. Even on application, it feels like you are applying toothpaste on your skin. When it dries out, you can see dots where you mostly have oil, which means it works. It is really cooling on the skin, but it does not sting. When it dries out, you will feel your facial skin very taut. The dried out clay would crack when you tried to move your face.
My Thoughts:
* Smells like a toothpaste.
* Very minty and cooling on the skin - perfect for relaxation.
* When it dries out, it would be very hard to sneeze - hahaha.
* After cleansing off the the masque, I noticed that my skin was brighter.
* Available at Healthy Options for Php300-Php350.
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