Effective DIY Homemade Facials You Can Easily Try At Home

Getting a professional salon service is a treat for most of the women. It is the best feeling to get pampered in a beauty spa salon and getting the face steamed, pores cleaned, and even a facial massage.

Unfortunately, most of these facials are expensive, not to mention the fact that it can be hard to find spas and salons that use natural products and ingredients instead of chemical-heavy facial treatments.

Experts recommend getting a facial treatment every 4-6 weeks, but that can be hard on anyone’s wallet, not unless you’re a Hollywood A-lister or an online influencer that does nothing but try to look beautiful.

Facial treatments are an important key to healthy, glowing skin. If you truly want soft, supple, healthy, and glowing skin, you need to have a facial treatment from time to time. However, instead of setting the wallet on fire every month, why not go for DIY facial treatments at home. By regularly performing at-home facials, you not only get the same kind of professional treatment and effect from the expensive ones, but you can even improve the look of your skin tone, enjoy deep cleansing benefits, and experience overall rejuvenation. Giving yourself a DIY home facial treatment is a gorgeous form of self-love and a great way to get to know your skin.

# Oatmeal, Milk, and Honey Gentle Hydrating Face Treatment

You only need ½ cup of raw ground oatmeal, ½ cup water, ½ cup milk, and 1 tablespoon of honey. Combine ingredients in a small sauce pan and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes. Let cool and apply to face. Rinse off after 15 minutes. This mask manages breakouts and moisturizes your skin. It can also help reduce inflammation, but just make sure to use lukewarm, not hot water, when you put it on your skin. It’s clear that the ingredients used are inexpensive and fun to do at home, and what the ingredients do:

- Honey can make your skin moist and soft and can help break apart excess sebum.
- Milk can help make your skin moist and is anti-inflammatory, so it will calm down redness.
- Oatmeal can gently exfoliate your skin.
- Water thins out the mask, so you can apply it evenly to your face.

# Milk and Unflavored Gelatin Face Mask

You can also use honey or tea tree oil in the absence of gelatin. Or you can mix in all these 3 ingredients together with ½ cup milk and 1 tablespoon honey. You only need a small gelatin packet and 3 drops of tea tree oil. Combine ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 10 seconds. Let cool and apply to face and rinse off after 15 minutes. Here’s what the ingredients actually do:

- Honey can make your skin moist and soft and can help break apart excess sebum.
- Milk can help make your skin moist and is anti-inflammatory, so it will calm down redness a little bit. But with this mask, the primary focus is to make the mask a spreadable consistency.
- Tea tree oil can be both antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, which can help acne.
- Gelatin can dry and clean out your pores.

# Honey, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg Breakout Prevention Face Mask

You only need 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons, honey. Mix ingredients until smooth. Apply to face and rinse off after 15 minutes. Patch test this recipe before applying to entire face as some skin types react to cinnamon. This main ingredient can be very irritating to the skin. So this would definitely be a mask to patch test before you actually use it. But once you’re sure it won’t upset your skin, it’s okay to try. The nutmeg is going to be slightly exfoliating, which is going to open up the pores. Since pores are two-way streets, it allows the other ingredients to penetrate deeper into the skin. While it won’t necessarily clear a breakout that’s already happened, this mask might help prevent future ones.

Here’s what the ingredients actually do:

- Honey can make your skin moist and soft and can help break apart excess sebum.
- Cinnamon has some antibacterial properties, which can help prevent acne.
- Nutmeg can help gently exfoliate.

# Banana Hydrating Face Mask

You only need 1 teaspoon butter milk, 2 tablespoons of Greek yogurt, 1 teaspoon cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and half a banana, mashed. Mix all ingredients until smooth. Apply to face and rinse off after 15 minutes. This mixture fights blemishes, clears pores, hydrates skin, rejuvenates the skin, fades scars and age spots, and tightens skin. Be careful not to get the lemon juice in your eyes because it could sting. Here’s what the ingredients can do:

- Lemon juice can be slightly antibacterial, and a little exfoliating.
- Honey can make your skin moist and softer and can help break apart excess sebum.
- Buttermilk helps make your skin moist and is anti-inflammatory, so it can calm down redness.
- Bananas have enzymes in them that can help break down bonds between dead skin cells on the surface of your skin. In short, the fruit is mildly exfoliating.
- Greek yogurt can be soothing and hydrating, much like milk.
- Cocoa makes the mask easier to apply.

# Coffee Grounds and Essential Oil Face Mask

All you need are 1 teaspoon coffee grounds, 2 teaspoons coconut oil, and 5 drops geranium essential oil. Mix ingredients until smooth. Apply to face and rinse off after 15 minutes. Coffee wakes up your skin, and geranium oil brightens your skin and lightens dark spots. In reality, caffeine does have some positive effects. It can be absorbed to some extent through the skin so you may have a little bit of an effect on some of the skin cells, and even on some of the most superficial blood vessels. That gives you a little bit of a vessel tightening and constricting effect, which is going to diminish any slight swelling or puffiness under the eyes. Remember that this is a mask, even though it looks a little like a scrub, so don’t rub or scrub this on your skin. You can actually add a little more coconut oil or honey to make it a more mask-like consistency and to give your skin the benefits of those ingredients as well.

- Geranium facial oil can brighten your skin, and make it softer.
- Coconut oil can be slightly antiseptic and will help moisturize your skin.
- Coffee grounds could slightly reduce swelling or puffiness.