How To Make A Homemade Face Mask

You can’t deny the fact how much harsh chemicals beauty brands use in their products. Though they help you look great instantly but as you keep applying for months, you will lose all the natural glow you had. In fact, your skin becomes dry and dark. Hence, natural ways are always the best. So, keeping everything in mind, today I am going to teach you how to make a homemade face mask. Read on

How To Make Homemade Face Masks?

Don’t waste your hard-earned money on store-bought beauty peels and products when you have a cheaper, safe as well as a natural way to obtain them. Just use few kitchen ingredients to make one. Homemade facemasks are inexpensive and don’t have any side effects. Believe me, you can have a naturally glowing skin much faster. The best part – the results aren’t temporary. Here are different answers to your question – how to make a face mask.

1. Almonds For Fair & Smooth Skin

A homemade facemask made from almonds can really do wonders. It brightens your skin tone and keeps it healthy at the same time. Use it every day for 2 weeks & see the results yourself. Almonds are far better than those expensive skincare products sold at the market. Since I have tried this personally, I m suggesting you as well.

You Will Need

• Almonds – 4 to 5
• Milk – ½ cup or even less (to soak the almonds)

What To Do?

• Soak the almonds in milk and leave it overnight
• Next morning, you will see that the almonds become soft
• Mash it in order to form a fine smooth paste
• Now, apply this onto your face before
• Leave it for 30 minutes
• Wash off with lukewarm water

Doing this two times a week on a regular basis will leave your skin glowing and smooth.

2. Chocolate Facemask

This decadent facemask is great for almost all skin types. Even you know how good chocolate is for skin. Since this homemade chocolate facemask combines cream & honey too, it adds moisture while oatmeal sloughs off dead cells. Thereby, leaving your face soft, smooth and glowing.

You Will Need

• Cocoa – 1/3 cup
• Heavy cream – 3 tablespoons
• Cottage cheese – 2 teaspoons
• Honey – ¼ cup
• Oatmeal powder – 3 teaspoons

What To Do?

• Mix all the above listed ingredients in a small bowl
• Apply the paste onto your face, throat and chest
• Leave it for 15 minutes
• Rinse off with warm water

3.Limejuice + Cucumber Face Pack

Since the topic is about how to make face masks, natural ingredients like cucumbers and lemons can’t be missed. Both are well known for antibacterial and skin lightening properties, which is exactly why most beauty experts recommend it. It even heals sunburns, tan and other skin damages. To try out this remedy, follow what is given below

You Will Need

• Fresh cucumber juice – 1 tablespoon
• Fresh lemon juice – 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon
• Glycerin – 1 teaspoon (if you have dry skin)

What To Do?

• Combine all the above given ingredients in a small clean bowl. This will form a paste
• Apply this onto your face, while concentrating more on your dark circles
• Leave it for 15 to 20 minutes
• Wash off with water

Doing this on a regular basis will help you give a glowing and fairer skin much faster.

4. Apple Pie Facemask

You must have heard this popular saying – “An apple a day can keep a doctor way”. Well, it can do a lot more than just keeping a doctor away. Yes, it can help you sustain a beautiful skin always. Apples are piled with essential nutrients. It contains 85% water & are rich in vitamin-A, vitamin-C and potassium. Apart from these, apples have “malic acid” in them, which serves as an excellent exfoliating enzyme. It helps in surface dirt and dead cells from your skin. To try this remedy, follow what is given below.

You Will need

• Brown sugar – 2 tablespoons
• Granulated sugar – 2 tablespoons
• Apple sauce or apple puree – 1 tablespoon
• Cinnamon – 1/8 teaspoon

What To Do?

• Stir all the above-mentioned ingredients in a small bowl
• Use it like a scrub on your face and even on other body parts while taking a shower
• But don’t be vigorous. Be gentle while rubbing in circular motions on your face
• If you are using it for the entire body, increase the ingredients proportion and use a loofah to scrub
• Pay special attention on rough spots like heels, knees and elbows
• Wash thoroughly
• Use a good quality moisturizer

Note: While using it on your face, avoid granulated sugar.

5. Gram Flour Facemask

Gram flour has its other name as chickpea flour, which is well known to lighten and brighten your skin immediately. To make a face pack with this, follow what is given below.

You Will Need

• Gram flour – 1 tablespoon
• Lime juice – 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric – 1 teaspoon
• Rosewater – few drops

What To Do?

• Mix all the above listed ingredients in a small bowl. This will form a paste
• Apply this mixture on your face
• Let your skin absorb all its nutrients
• Wash off with water

This is great for all skin types. Doing this on a regular basis will help you have a naturally glowing and fair skin.

6. Papaya For Natural Skin Rejuvenation

Papaya has a natural enzyme called “Papain”, which is well known to lighten and nourish your skin. Just follow what is written below.

• Wash your face properly
• Boil some water in a vessel
• While the water boils, mash half papaya into a thin paste
• Remove the water from heat and use a towel to cover your face. Bring your face over the boiling water in a way that the steam encounters your skin.
• Apply the papaya mixture after your steaming process is done
• Avoid the eye region
• Lie down & relax for 15 minutes
• Wash off with cold water

This will help you feel rejuvenated. After washing, don’t forget to use a nice moisturizer for that radiant complexion.

7. Banana Mask

Yet another great tip on how to make a facial mask is this one. Bananas are excellent for skincare. They leave your skin smooth, moisturized, healthy, rejuvenated and deeply nourished. To make a facemask with this, follow what is give below.

You Will Need

• Banana – ½ – mashed (ripe)
• Egg white – 1
• Yogurt – 1 tablespoon (avoid this if you have an oily skin)

What To Do?

• Mix all the above listed ingredients in a small bowl
• Apply the mixture onto your face
• Keep it for a while
• Wash off with warm water

Believe it or not, banana is great for a glowing skin. In fact, it gives an effect that is similar to parlor facial. So do this on a daily basis and see results with your own eyes.

8. Honey + Olive Oil + Egg Yolk Mask

If you have dry skin, then this is the perfect mask to nourish.

You Will Need

• Egg yolk – 1
• Warm honey – 1 tablespoon
• Olive oil – 1 teaspoon

What To Do?

• Combine all the listed ingredients in a small clean bowl
• Massage your face with the prepared mixture
• Leave for about 15 to 20 minutes
• Wash off with lukewarm water

9. Chamomile Tea Mask For An Instantly Glowing Skin

Teas have been used since ages to maintain a healthy skin. To make a mask with Chamomile tea, follow the below listed instructions.

You Will Need

• Chamomile tea
• Honey – 2 tablespoons
• Oatmeal powder – 1 tablespoon
• Almond oil – 2-3 drops

What To Do?

• Make a mixture by combining oatmeal, chamomile tea, almond oil & honey
• Mix all the ingredients properly
• Apply this like a mask on your face
• Leave it for 15 minutes for it to work on your skin
• Wash off with water

10. Acai Berry Facemask

If you really want to learn how to make a homemade face mask that is more effective and natural, then read this. Acai berries are great for hydrating your skin deeply. In fact, it gives out a spa-like effect. Berries are great sources of antioxidants like polyphenols. Apart from making your skin shine, it serves as a wrinkle-fighter. They are powerful astringents, which is why they tighten your skin while minimizing skin pores. Moreover, fatty acids present in Açai berries combat hyper pigmentation. On the other hand, sugars & olive oil combined with them forms a very gentle scrub. Thereby, eliminating dirt trapped in skin pores. Follow the instructions to apply this remedy.

You Will Need

• Sugar – 2/3 cup
• Acai powder – 2 teaspoons or acai slush – ¼ cup (you can get from any food store)
• Wholesome berries – 10 (raspberries, blackberries, blueberries or mixed)
• Olive oil – 1 tablespoon

What To Do?

• With the help of potato masher, just mash the acai powder, fresh berries and sugar in a bowl
• Gradually add olive oil into it

• Combine coarsely using a whisk
• Use the mixture to massage your face
• Let it be there for 5 minutes
• Rinse off with lukewarm water

11. Orange Juice + Honey Facemask

For that instant glowing skin, natural ingredients like honey and orange juice certainly can’t be missed. I have personally tried and worked amazingly for me. Hence, recommending you as well but do it on a daily basis.

You Will Need

• Fresh orange juice (strain the pulp) – 3 tablespoons
• Honey (warmed) – ½ cup

What To Do?

• Combine all the above listed ingredients in a small clean bowl
• Use this mixture to massage your face gently
• Leave it for 20 to 30 minutes
• Rinse off with lukewarm water

12. Watermelon & Cucumber Mask

Watermelon naturally clears your skin while cucumber’s vitamin-C helps in lightening it. This facemask eliminates blemishes & acts as a toner. Other ingredients used in this homemade facemask are yoghurt and milk powder, which softens and moisturizes the skin deeply. Here’s what you should do

You Will Need

• Watermelon juice – two tablespoons
• Cucumber juice – two tablespoons
• Milk powder – 1 teaspoon
• Yoghurt – 1 teaspoon

What To Do?

• Combine all the above listed ingredients in a small bowl
• Apply the mixture onto your face
• Leave it for 15 minutes
• Wash off with warm water

This wonder facemask not only tightens your pores but also leaves a fairer glowing skin. Do this for few ekks until you see desired results.

13. Honey + Papaya Mask

If you have sun spots, dark skin and uneven pigments, this homemade facemask is great to treat them.

You Will Need

• Ripe papaya – ½ cup (mashed)
• Honey – two tablespoons

What To Do?

• Combine mashed papaya and honey together in a small bowl
• Massage your face, throat, neck and chest with this paste for few minutes
• Leave it for about 20 to 30 minutes
• Rinse off with warm water

14.Strawberry Facial Mask

Apart from being a healthy food, strawberries are great for your skin. Enriched with vitamin-C, strawberries also have natural alpha-hydroxy acids, which helps in exfoliating the skin deeply. Its grainy texture helps nourish too when mixed with hone. When these tow ingredients are combined together, they penetrate your skin surface better. Other ingredients used in this facemask are olive oil, mayonnaise and few drops of lavender oil, each having their own skin benefits.

You Will Need

• Fresh strawberries – 10
• Bee pollen – ¼ cup (you can get it from any food store)
• Raw honey – 3 tablespoons
• Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
• Mayonnaise – 1 tablespoon
• Lavender oil – few drops

What To Do?

• Mix all the above listed ingredients in a small bowl
• Use the prepared mixture to massage your face gently
• Avoid contact with your eyes
• Leave it for 20 to 30 minutes
• Rinse with warm water

15. Vitamin C Mask

If you are looking for an anti-aging facemask, then this remedy is perfect to use.

You Will Need

• Fresh kiwi fruit – peeled & mashed – ½
• Raw honey – two tablespoons
• Orange oil – ⁴ drops

What To Do?

• Use mixer to blend all the above listed ingredients together
• Drop it in a small clean bowl
• Use the prepared mixture to massage your face
• Leave for 20 minutes
• Rinse off with warm water

I hope this article was helpful. If you try any of these tips and found to be working and very effective for you, please do share about it in the comments section. We would be very happy to hear from you.

How To Choose The Right Homemade Face Mask For Your Skin Type

Before you make a homemade face mask, look at what your skin actually needs that day. Dry or flaky skin usually does better with moisturizing ingredients such as honey, banana, yogurt, olive oil, milk, or mashed papaya. Oily or congested skin may prefer lighter mixtures made with cucumber juice, oatmeal, gram flour, or a small amount of lemon juice diluted with soothing ingredients. Sensitive skin should avoid strong exfoliants, citrus-heavy recipes, cinnamon, and essential oils because these can sting or cause redness.

If your face feels tight after washing, choose a creamy mask and keep it on for a shorter time. If your skin looks dull but not irritated, a gentle oatmeal, apple, papaya, or strawberry mask can help polish away surface buildup. The best homemade mask is not the strongest one; it is the one your skin can tolerate comfortably.

Safety Tips Before Applying Kitchen Ingredients To Your Face

Natural does not always mean irritation-free, so patch testing matters. Apply a small amount of the prepared mask near your jawline or inner arm and wait 24 hours if you are trying ingredients such as lemon juice, turmeric, cinnamon, bee pollen, essential oils, or egg. Do not use a mask on broken skin, active rashes, sunburn, or freshly waxed areas.

Use clean bowls, clean hands, and fresh ingredients. Avoid saving masks that contain egg, dairy, fresh fruit, or yogurt because they spoil quickly. Citrus juices should be used sparingly and rinsed thoroughly, and it is best to apply sunscreen the next day because exfoliating or acidic ingredients can make skin more sun-sensitive.

How Often Should You Use Homemade Face Masks?

Most homemade face masks work best when used one to three times a week, not several times a day. Moisturizing masks with honey, banana, milk, or yogurt can often be used more frequently if your skin tolerates them. Scrubs with sugar, apple, oatmeal, berries, or gram flour should be used less often because too much exfoliation can make the skin barrier feel raw, shiny, or tight.

After rinsing, pat your face dry and apply a simple moisturizer while the skin is still slightly damp. If a mask burns, itches, or leaves lasting redness, rinse it off immediately and do not repeat that recipe.