Up The Beauty Game While You Sleep: 5 Overnight Face Packs

Imagine waking up to a face devoid of dark circles, tan treated well, freckles dimmed, blemishes repaired, dust exfoliated and skin detoxified! What if we promise you all these with just ingredients bought at farmer’s markets and not at a salon?

Yes! Overnight beauty is not a dream anymore (pun intended). It is very much a reality and is just a few steps to kitchen away. Stay at home, use these 5 overnight face masks to make your skin glow regularly. Beauty and glory is all yours just in eight hours!

Why You Should Use Overnight Face Packs

Agreed that the idea of an overnight face pack sounds quite uncomfortable. But ever heard of the concept of beauty sleep? It is believed that after slipping into deep sleep, approximately 2 hours into the night, he body achieves deep relaxation, void of thoughts. At this stage of Zen, the skin cells, especially the face ones get activated to work on rebuilding the damaged cells. While known to be the most productive part of skin rejuvenation of the day, if some external and organic care is supplemented to the face cells at this point, the results are bound to be two-fold and will leave you astonished.

Do read this quick 2-minute guide to finding the BEST FACE MASK FOR YOUR SKIN TYPE.

Some Precautions:

• If you struggle with sinusitis, migraines, severe cold or ill health, please do not follow these overnight methods. If your nasal cavity is hyper sensitive, the overnight masks loaded with moisture retention qualities might lock up excess moisture in the pores of your face, thus intensifying your health issues.
• While making these masks, ensure that they are brought down to the thickness of a toner. Having thick face packs left on your face for more than 8 hours will clog your pores, not let them breath and destruct the very purpose of skin cells rejuvenation.
• Do not repeat the packs for more than twice in a week for the idea of having hydration loaded masks left overnight everyday might cause health issues which weren’t present previously.
• Ensure that you cover your pillow with an old cloth so that the face pack does not stain the pillow cover while you toss and turn during the sleep.

5 Overnight Skin Rejuvenation Face Packs

Now that you know how to employ these packs to your advantage, do not think twice and go ahead. Follow the methods to the T.

1. Fancy Some Chamomile Tea

Recreate some old school and debonair English high tea scenario as you go to bed and indulge in some chamomile tea face pack. The components of chamomile tea have the activated carbon parts of chamomile and the soothing factor from the tea. Together, they work to suck up dirt from the skin cells and at the same time supply them with cooling and moisture as they work to invigorate your face.

Method:

Buy Chamomile tea bags and make some tea without milk. Add a little cooked and ground oatmeal to it and a tablespoon of honey. Mix well into a runny liquid base and apply overnight.

2. Breakfast For Night

Honey is an agent of healing. It works directly on the skin cells and help the accelerate the rejuvenation process. Being an astringent, honey will also help in sucking away the oil out of the epidermis which causes acne. Added to this, is the goodness of oatmeal. Oatmeal is a natural scrub that will attract the dust particles out of the pores and inanimately exfoliates the skin overnight. The two ingredients will be coupled with rose water which will double as a binding agent and a coolant- it will keep both the ingredients together and will cool down the heat activity that these two components will bring about.

Method:

Cook oatmeal and take two tablespoons of it (eat the rest!) and add a tablespoon of honey. After adding another teaspoon of rose water, blend them all for a minute to form a coarse paste. Apply and as you wake up dip cotton balls in water and scrub off the mask gently.

3. Cook Cucumber In Olive Oil

It is needless to say that staying out all day will amount to heaps of dirt and damage on your face. This will obviously lead to dull and dry skin, the root causes of toning down of complexion. The damage might also make the skin oils turn acidic which can deplete nourishment in skin. The goal is to moisturize the skin, restore oils and balance the PH. Effectively, Cucumbers can work all these three goals as it is rich in Vitamin C and Caffeic acid which act as a coolant and exfoliate the skin pores off the dust. Adding to this is Olive oil which will restore moisturizing and restoring hydration in the skin.

Method:

Peel half of a cucumber and grate it and extract the zest from it. Mix a tablespoon of olive oil into it. The pack is light weight and will almost feel like a toner. Apply it all over the face and rinse it with cold water after you wake up.

4. Tomatoes Dipped In Yogurt

Tanning is a major challenge that most women face. Exposure to harsh sunlight, intense humidity, dust and pollution lacing the atmosphere we move in are classic reasons of tanning. Tanning often leads to uneven discoloration of the skin tone. The pollution can also damage skin cells and turn them acidic, leaving them susceptible to increased death rate. To tackle tanning, we have tomatoes for you. Rich in Vitamin C, tomatoes help to dig into your pores and remove the dirt and tan. Yogurt on the other hand balances the acidity by acting its basic qualities onto it. Not just that, it refurbishes moisture to the skin and keeps it supple. You can also add the master ingredient- honey to it which will help remove the tan blemishes owing to its toning properties.

Method:

Peel tomatoes, grind them and take the extract of it. Add in a table spoon of honey and yogurt each and mix well. Leave it overnight and rinse with warm water in the mornings.

5. Almond Treatment

This post will be incomplete if we did not suggest almond treatments. Rich in Vitamin E, almonds have been a part of beauty regimes for generations now and have not lost relevance in today’s world of pollution treatment. Suiting to our needs here, the vitamin E will help cell damage revival, supplement them while they work to rework their constitution. Almonds even form a protective sheath from the harsh sun rays to safeguard the face for tan and dehydration.

Method:

On the previous night, soak up to 5 almonds in lukewarm water over night. The next night, grind them into a soft paste by adding some milk, another popularly known beauty nourishment to give the paste a liquid base. Apply overnight and rinse with cold water.

Now that you can make most of your nights, indulge in some pampering after a long day of work with these face packs that we have suggested. Try them by experimentation and stick to a weekly regime for better results.