Author: Namratha Gopal
Night-time skincare regime plays an important role in repairing skin and drenching your skin with its maximum hydration and moisture. Most of them say, it’s very important to layer your skin the right way for night-time skincare regimen. Sleeping masks are a great way to deeply condition and nourish skin and they can be used alone or as a last step in your routine. It does its job as it claims to add maximum hydration and helps to achieve that clear, glowing and smooth skin making it healthy. Here, we are back with another such sleeping mask but this time its Korean sleeping mask for achieving the glass skin.
Glass skin as we have been hearing this in last few years, it is the Korean beauty (K-beauty) trend. But glass skin is just not that shiny texture on your skin which you can just make look that way with the help of highlighter, but it is actually the dewy, clear, firm, healthy, pore-less, transparent looking skin. This is what, is the actual and ultimate goal, we mean by glass skin. So, check out the recipe for Korean sleeping mask for glass skin which you can swear by without giving the second thought.
Recipe for Korean Sleeping Mask for Glass Skin
Benefits of the ingredients used in the Korean sleeping mask
Rice
Rice is one of the age-old, miraculous, anti-aging and hidden beauty ingredient. It is very beneficial in increasing the collagen in the skin and thus prevents wrinkles and ageing making your skin look soft and supple. It does have natural sunscreen properties and tend to have a lot of other skin benefits like adding moisture, hydration, prevents acne due to its anti-oxidant properties. It does have Vitamin E, B and minerals and amino acids thus helpful in giving clear and bright skin by stimulating the blood flow.
Commercial aloe vera gel
Aloe vera contains 75 potentially active components like vitamin, enzymes, sugars, lignin, minerals, saponin, vitamin B12, choline, folic acid, salicylic and amino acids. It contains vitamin A (beta-carotene), vitamin C, vitamin E which is collectively called as anti-oxidants. All these components make it an ideal ingredient that helps in achieving that hydrated and dewy skin. It also helps in improving elasticity of the skin and thus makes skin smoother, softer and healthier. It also prevents acne, wrinkles, evens out uneven skin tone, protects from skin damage and etc.
Vitamin E capsules (Vitamin E oil)
Vitamin E is known to moisturize and refresh your skin with its skin hydrating property and anti-oxidants. It also has anti-inflammatory and photo protective effects on the skin. This renews the skin’s healthy glow and diminishes wrinkles. It serves as overnight anti-aging treatment.
Lavender essential oil
One of the great picks in essential oils is the lavender essential oil. It provides excellent soothing properties to the skin that helps in soothing inflamed skin, evens out scarring, it doesn’t clog pores, is gentle and nourishing on the skin. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties and also is helpful in treating uneven skin tone, pigmented skin and blemishes.
Method
Things you need:
- 1 cup of rice
- Water to infuse rice
- 3 tbsp of commercial aloe vera gel
- Few drops of vitamin E oil ( 2 to 3 vitamin E capsules)
- Few drops of lavender essential oil
Directions:
To prepare this Korean sleeping mask, take a small mixing bowl and add 1 cup of clean rice to it. Now add enough amount of water to immerse rice and let it infuse overnight. In the next morning, take a blender and add the infused mixture to it and blend it to smooth. Now squeeze out the juice from the blended mixture with the help of muslin cloth or if u don’t have it, can use thin cloth.
Cook this strained mixture on low flame until it turns sticky and gooey. Once the cooked mixture has come down to room temperature, add 3 tablespoons of commercial aloe vera gel, few drops of vitamin E oil and few drops of lavender essential oil. Give it a very good mix and store it in a small pump bottle. Can store the mixture up to 4 to 5 days. Apply this mask before going to bed and wake with that glow on your face the next morning.
Note
- Patch test is mandatory before you use this mask and check if it works for you.
- Use the freshly prepared mask as much as possible.
- Discard the usage in case you feel any skin irritation.
- Do not expect instant results.
- Use organic products/ ingredients for best results and to maintain the skin health.
- Can switch to double cleansing to see the better results.
