Retail: Face up to the latest in skincare masks
The use of facial masks at home is nothing new, and should be part of your clients' regular regimes, helping to amplify and maintain the results of professional treatments in your salon.
Today's mask formulations range from anti-blemish to anti-ageing, hydrating to pollution-tackling, delivered in innovative formulations whilst the increasingly popular sheet masks offer mess-free alternatives.
Let's take a look at a few of your options…
Hydrating Masks
Nimue Super Hydrating Mask relieves dryness thanks to its Hydrating Bio-Complex.
Using this cream mask, rich in moisture, will help to minimise skin dehydration and reduce fine lines. Skin is left soft and supple, with dehydrated skin conditions soothed.
The CACI Hydro Mask features Hyaluronic acid delivering intensive skin hydration and firming actions.
Additional ingredients include firming Collagen which helps to redefine facial contours and plump the skin along with Rose Water, rich in anti-oxidants to nourish skin.
mesoestetic's Hydra-Vital Face Mask intensively hydrates skin and prevents early signs of ageing thanks to its cocktail of antioxidants.
Dry, dehydrated skin is nourished and revitalised, and this mask is especially suitable for use at home after salon treatments that involve temporary dehydration of the skin.
BeautyPro's Thermotherapy Warming Gold Foil Mask with Hyaluronic Acid & Q10 is self-warming, getting to work as soon as it is applied to the face, accelerating the penetration of its active ingredients.
Fatigued skin benefits from the intense burst of hydration that this mask delivers, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles as well as improving skin's elasticity. Hyaluronic acid and Q10 deeply nourish and moisturise the skin whilst Collagen production is stimulated.
Timeless Truth's Triple Effect Hyaluronic Acid Ultra-Hydrating Mask is made from Soft Touch Cotton (Bemliese), making it gentle on skin.
This mask features three different Hyaluronic acids, which offers triple the effect of replenishing and retaining skin's moisture and hydration. The retained moisture also plumps out the skin, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Brightening Masks
Crystal Clear's 10 Minute Glow peel-off facial mask is formulated from natural Papaya and Lemon enzymes which polish the skin to eliminate a dull, lacklustre and congested complexion.
In just 10 minutes, skin is deeply cleansed and pores minimised with dead skin cells dissolved and cell renewal stimulated. Anti-inflammatory agents also help to reduce any redness along with excess sebum production. Skin is revealed with a fresher-look and renewed radiance so that skin has an immediate glow.
Botanicals Revitalising Renewal Mask for dry, dehydrated and mature skin types is a restorative certified organic face mask which provides anti-ageing and hydrating benefits.
Made from certified organic ingredients including French Rose Clay as well as organic Rosehip oil, Shea Butter and Rose Geranium, it leaves the complexion looking more youthful, brighter and revitalised and feeling nourishes and supple.
Brighten and rejuvenate skin while improving the appearance of wrinkles using SkinMate's Matricol Natural Collagen Mask from House of Famuir.
Developed for skin that is dehydrated and showing signs of dullness, this intensive mask features an advanced anti-ageing formulation of native Collagen to plump wrinkles for an even skin texture and colour.
Masks for oily and blemished skin
Botanicals Balancing Detox Mask created for combination, irritated, sensitive and oily skin types is a detoxifying certified organic face mask which draws out impurities and penetrates nutrients to lower layers of the skin. Key ingredients include Mediterranean Green Clay from Sicily plus organic Avocado oil and Mandarin essential oil, along with organic Marigold.
Improvements on stubborn breakouts are said to be visible after just one use whilst this mask can also be used overnight as well as an anti-ageing treatment.
mesoestetic's Pure Renewing Mask is exfoliating and purifying on acne-prone and seborrheic skin, eliminating blemishes and renewing skin's flexibility and softness.
Inert granules have a mechanical exfoliating effect, which renews the cells while giving optimal control over pilosebaceous activity in oily and acne-prone skins.
Nimue's Clarifying Mask is ideal for absorbing sebum and impurities, and features anti-bacterial properties.
This cream formulation of Tea Tree oil and Vitamin A leaves skin cleansed yet hydrated, with impurities and excess oil removed. The result is refined skin with a smooth texture and full of moisture.
Anti-ageing masks
Designed to enhance the cell renewal process, restructure the water-lipid layer and increase skin moisturise levels, mesoestetic's Crystal Fibre Mask is created from a 100% natural medical-grade material based on 3D Nano fibres.The mask fits the contours of the face with an occlusive effect which improves permeability and the carrying efficacy of the mask's ingredients.
This mask is ideal to use at home after a mesopeel or other resurfacing treatments.
Timeless Truth's Bee Venom + Royal Jelly Miracle Bio Cellulose Mask acts as an anti-ageing treatment to help smooth, lift and tighten the skin.
Bee Venom – often referred to as a natural alternative to Botox – contains Melittin, shown to have anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, whilst Honey and Royal Jelly nourish skin and stimulate the natural production of Collagen and Elastin within the skin, and Aloe Leaf extract and Hyaluronic acid hydrate.
This mask is made from luxurious Bio Cellulose, a superfine fibre that has a high fluid-holding capacity of up to 100 times its dry weight, meaning that skin benefits from a high volume of product.
Stress Busting Masks
QMS Medicosmetics EpiGen Pollution Rescue Overnight Mask has been formulated to revitalise tired-looking skin as you sleep, revealing a smoother, firmer, healthier appearance in the morning.
The luxurious velvet-foam mask's sophisticated formulation is designed to bolster skin's natural resistance to environmental stress, such as air pollution and UV light, to help skin cells stay active for longer, while providing intensive moisture and nourishment.
mesoestetic's Anti-Stress Face Mask is soothing and repairing on all skin types, even the most sensitive. Its complex formulation beats the effects of oxidising stress on the skin, whilst also having decongestant, anti-inflammatory, anti-erythematous, anti-oedema and antioxidant actions.
This mask is ideal for restoring the skin's hydro-lipid layer in areas exposed to treatments or to environmental aggressions.
Ideal for stressed, tired and prematurely ageing skin, Nimue's Rejuvenating Mask contains a refreshing combination of Alpha Lipoic Acid as well as Vitamin C and A Esters.
This unique cream formulation brightens and smoothes the skin, creating a radiant and clear complexion, counteracting the damaging effects of free radicals.
Eye Masks
The CACI Hydro Eye Mask instantly refreshes the eye area thanks to cooling Cucumber extract and deeply hydrating Hyaluronic acid. Green Tea extract detoxifies and reduces puffiness whilst Collagen helps to plump and reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
BeautyPro Eye Therapy Under Eye Mask is a dual-function Hydrogel eye treatment which features Collagen and Green Tea. It has a relaxing and cooling action on the eye area, relieving tired, swollen or puffy skin. What's more, it also has an anti-ageing action, diminishing fine lines and wrinkles.
Timeless Truth Collagen Bio Cellulose Eye Mask works around the sensitive eye area to reduce the appearance of fine lines and crow's feet.
Formulated from moisturising and anti-oxidant Olea Europaea husk oil, the formulation impregnated into the Bio Cellulose fibre mask also includes anti-oxidant and anti-fungal Sodium Citrate as well as SYN-TACKS, a multi-peptide which stimulates Collagen.
