Last night as my partner and I were home alone instead of celebrating at a party, I found some facial recipes on Pinterest. To be fair, I found one pin that had already collected 10 recipes. I decided to try two of the recipes.
If the sensitive skin scale is 0 = sensitive as all get-out, don't go outside without layers of protection and 10 = come at me with anything, cement won't phase my skin, I'm probably a 2.5 or 3. To be fair, this scale I just made up smooshes a wide range into not enough numbers.
As a disclaimer, I used honey which had crystallized. I microwaved it first, but in order to dissolve all the crystals, I had to heat it up so it was fairly thin when I measured it.
Coffee & Cocoa facial
This recipe called for coffee, unsweetened cocoa powder, honey, and some kind of dairy product or possibly oil. I looked at the recipe, looked at what I had, and tossed it together using coconut oil instead of a dairy and ground white coffee instead of standard coffee. I even convinced my partner to join me in the facial.
Here we are, waiting for the mask to dry. It never did. I suspect it's because our body temperature kept the honey and coconut oil too warm to ever fully set. We probably left it on for an hour or more before I couldn't handle it on my face any longer.
I don't know if it was because of the oil or the white coffee or because it was on too long or never fully set, but this mask left my face feeling dry and overly exfoliated. Also, the oil made it so you really didn't want to risk it getting in your mouth. The white coffee also made me resistant to getting it in my mouth, plus it didn't smell as great as regular coffee would have.
Conclusion: I won't be using it again.
Cinnamon-Nutmeg-Honey facial
The second mask smelled better. I have to say that equal parts cinnamon and nutmeg left this mask smelling slightly off what I expected. Nutmeg is fairly strong. I also didn't take a picture of this on my face.
This one was easier to put on, but with only honey holding it all together, it dripped pretty bad. I didn't make it 30 minutes because it itched and dripped so bad I thought I'd got nutty. Also, this one got on the collar of the sweatshirt I was wearing. It just wants to move. With gravity. Toward the floor.
After I was done with this, I felt like it had restored my face a bit from the previous mask. Either my face wasn't going to feel any exfoliation after the first or it really wasn't as bad. That coffee was pretty rough. The spice granules, in comparison, were quite lovely.
Conclusion: I'll probably try it again, but I'll wait for the honey to cool down quite a bit before I put it on my face.
After all that, I put lotion on my face. My partner did too. My face feels pretty nice now.
Clean up was kind of special. I didn't clean the excess mask mixture out of their glasses for nearly 2 hours. By the time I did it, the hot water was enough to dilute and send the cinnamon mask down the drain. The coffee-cocoa mask had really solidified the way coconut oil will if it gets cool. I microwaved it for 15 seconds and that plus hot water got it all down the drain. I ran the disposal and the hot water for a bit of extra time, just because I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to clog the drain.
As an extra note, the first facial mask was hard to clean up around my nose stud. The coffee really got around and under the head of the jewel. The second mask I don't remember having problems with at all. I'm fairly certain I cleaned it all up, but I didn't remove the stud all the way for fear of something getting inside the piercing. One day I'll discuss the minor trauma I faced with the piercing when I first got it. It's made me cautious.
If the sensitive skin scale is 0 = sensitive as all get-out, don't go outside without layers of protection and 10 = come at me with anything, cement won't phase my skin, I'm probably a 2.5 or 3. To be fair, this scale I just made up smooshes a wide range into not enough numbers.
As a disclaimer, I used honey which had crystallized. I microwaved it first, but in order to dissolve all the crystals, I had to heat it up so it was fairly thin when I measured it.
Coffee & Cocoa facial
This recipe called for coffee, unsweetened cocoa powder, honey, and some kind of dairy product or possibly oil. I looked at the recipe, looked at what I had, and tossed it together using coconut oil instead of a dairy and ground white coffee instead of standard coffee. I even convinced my partner to join me in the facial.
Here we are, waiting for the mask to dry. It never did. I suspect it's because our body temperature kept the honey and coconut oil too warm to ever fully set. We probably left it on for an hour or more before I couldn't handle it on my face any longer.
I don't know if it was because of the oil or the white coffee or because it was on too long or never fully set, but this mask left my face feeling dry and overly exfoliated. Also, the oil made it so you really didn't want to risk it getting in your mouth. The white coffee also made me resistant to getting it in my mouth, plus it didn't smell as great as regular coffee would have.
Conclusion: I won't be using it again.
Cinnamon-Nutmeg-Honey facial
The second mask smelled better. I have to say that equal parts cinnamon and nutmeg left this mask smelling slightly off what I expected. Nutmeg is fairly strong. I also didn't take a picture of this on my face.
This one was easier to put on, but with only honey holding it all together, it dripped pretty bad. I didn't make it 30 minutes because it itched and dripped so bad I thought I'd got nutty. Also, this one got on the collar of the sweatshirt I was wearing. It just wants to move. With gravity. Toward the floor.
After I was done with this, I felt like it had restored my face a bit from the previous mask. Either my face wasn't going to feel any exfoliation after the first or it really wasn't as bad. That coffee was pretty rough. The spice granules, in comparison, were quite lovely.
Conclusion: I'll probably try it again, but I'll wait for the honey to cool down quite a bit before I put it on my face.
After all that, I put lotion on my face. My partner did too. My face feels pretty nice now.
Clean up was kind of special. I didn't clean the excess mask mixture out of their glasses for nearly 2 hours. By the time I did it, the hot water was enough to dilute and send the cinnamon mask down the drain. The coffee-cocoa mask had really solidified the way coconut oil will if it gets cool. I microwaved it for 15 seconds and that plus hot water got it all down the drain. I ran the disposal and the hot water for a bit of extra time, just because I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to clog the drain.
As an extra note, the first facial mask was hard to clean up around my nose stud. The coffee really got around and under the head of the jewel. The second mask I don't remember having problems with at all. I'm fairly certain I cleaned it all up, but I didn't remove the stud all the way for fear of something getting inside the piercing. One day I'll discuss the minor trauma I faced with the piercing when I first got it. It's made me cautious.
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