Scent: Warm and subtly sweet. Scented with our signature JUARA fragrance, with notes of lush tropical greens, freesia, bergamot, rose, blooming white jasmine, and a touch of fresh coconut.
Texture: Buttery, whipped, fast-absorbing with a velvety after-feel.
Directions
Can be used daily for maximum benefits.
Warm the desired amount of product in the palm of your hand, and then massage creme gently into the skin until it is fully absorbed.
Apply generously on cleansed skin or any time of day for a boost of moisture.
Recommended Ritual
This Body Creme is the perfect finishing touch following cleansing with JUARA Candlenut Hydrating Shower Gel or Candlenut Bar Soap. You can also layer it with our Candlenut Glow Body Oil or Kartini Body Oil for the ultimate skin pampering protocol.
Ingredients
Candlenut Oil: Moisturizes and softens skin with a non-greasy, velvety feel. Rich in linoleic and linolenic acid, candlenut oil moisturizes and helps mend rough, chapped skin.
Rice Bran Oil: Maintains elasticity. Rich in natural Vitamin E and essential fatty acids, rice bran oil intensely hydrate and help maintain youthful elasticity.
Avocado Oil: Nourishes and calms. Traditionally used in Indonesia, Avocado Oil is richly hydrating and highly soothing.
Illipe Butter: Moisturizes and protects. Provides a cushiony barrier to protect skin from dehydration, hard water, and harsh elements.
All Ingredients: Water/Eau, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Emulsifying Wax NF, Cyclomethicone, Illipe (Shorea stenoptera) Seed Butter, Candlenut (Aleurites moluccana) Oil, Avocado (Persea gratissima) Oil, Stearyl Alcohol, Rice Bran (Oryza sativa) Oil, Dimethicone, Carrot (Daucus Carota sativa) Seed Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Carbomer, Fragrance/Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Glycerin, Glyceryl Caprylate, Phenypropanol.
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Imagine this: you slather a rich and creamy avocado face mask over your skin, and after rinsing it off, your skin is bright, smooth, and luminous. Though you may be used to eating avocado on your morning toast, you can also apply it to your skin for a gorgeous and glowing complexion!
An avocado mask feels amazing and does amazing things to your skin. Packed with vitamins and nutrients, it's no wonder we have a lot of love for avocados! Keep reading, and we'll cover the five main benefits of avocado masks (plus, a recipe for making your own homemade face mask.)
Key Takeaways
Avocados contain many vitamins and nutrients that are readily delivered to your skin when applied topically.
When creating your homemade avocado mask, use other ingredients like cinnamon or ginger that will give you a personalized skin treatment.
Avocado face masks have many health and beauty benefits. It can moisturize the skin, reduce inflammation, protect against premature aging, and strengthen the skin barrier.
Avocados boast a range of beauty and wellness benefits. They're rich in healthy fats and nutrients that can help support and improve overall skin health. Avocado face masks, in particular, are known to moisturize and smooth the skin, promoting a youthful and radiant complexion.
#1. Moisturization and Hydration
Avocados are a good source of biotin, which is known to protect the skin from excessive dryness when applied topically. Biotin hydrates skin cells and improves skin tone. It may even help prevent skin rashes, dry patches, and cracking skin.
Avocados are rich in omega-3 fatty acids as well. Omega-3 essential fatty acids help fight dry and itchy skin. These are symptoms you'll often see with skin ailments like atopic dermatitis and psoriasis.
As a reminder, there are a few different categories of moisturizers: humectants, emollients, and occlusives.
Humectants attract moisture to the top layer of our skin. Emollients smooth the skin as they fill in gaps between skin cells with oils and lipids. Occlusives are generally a bit heavier than emollients, so while emollients help the skin maintain some moisture, the occlusives sit on top of the surface and seal it in.
Avocados and their oil can bring emollient and occlusive benefits, making it one of the best body oils out there. Avocado face masks generally have many moisturizing ingredients, including hydrating humectants like glycerin and softening emollients like shea butter and olive oil.
#2. Anti-Aging and Collagen Production
This amazing face-friendly fruit has a melange of minerals, fatty acids, and more. In addition to biotin, avocados contain vitamins A, C, E, and K, which help heal the skin while making it softer and smoother.
Vitamin E, C, and A can neutralize free radicals and minimize damage caused by sun exposure and other environmental factors. Over time, oxidative stress in the skin will result in wrinkles, fine lines, and dark spots.
Those above essential fatty acids present in avocado face masks can also improve skin elasticity and collagen production. You'll see more bounce-back in the skin if you use an anti-aging skincare product such as an avocado mask.
Avocados contain antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, which can minimize wrinkles and improve elasticity. There's even some research that indicates that polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols (PFA) found in avocados can help heal damage from ultraviolet radiation.
#3. Glowing Skin
At JUARA, we're inspired by the ancient Indonesian healing tradition of jamu. It's an artful, natural, and holistic approach to beauty and wellness. Along those lines, your mental, spiritual, and physical health relies on conscious self-care to thrive.
So, what goes on your skin is as important as what you put in your body.
Traditional Indonesian wellness rituals and recipes often utilize avocados, as this ingredient can provide excellent nourishment. As we've mentioned, avocados are rich in antioxidants, minerals, and nutrients that help nourish the body and soul.
Avocado facial masks contain antioxidants and nutrients like vitamin C that brighten and purify the skin. If you want to enjoy glowing and supple skin from head-to-toe, use our best-selling and award-winning Candlenut Body Creme. Even though it's not a face mask, it's a rich and luxurious cream containing natural ingredients like avocado oil, illipe butter, and candlenut oil that are rich in omega fatty acids.
The skin barrier is located in the uppermost layer of your epidermis, the stratum corneum. It protects the skin from environmental stressors and irritants while maintaining healthy hydration levels.
The stratum corneum - or skin barrier - is often described as a brick wall, with the skin cells (corneocytes in this case) being the bricks and the lipids (like cholesterol and ceramides) as the mortar. Together, they form a protective barrier.
The omega-3 fatty acids in avocados may help to enhance skin barrier function. They help seal in moisture and keep out irritants, which are the primary job responsibilities of your skin barrier.
Omega-3 fatty acids inhibit an enzyme that produces certain inflammatory hormones. These essential fatty acids help the skin barrier do their job much better by minimizing redness and swelling.
#5. Clears Blemishes
As we mentioned above, avocado contains biotin. Biotin can help keep your skin clear and healthy. Specifically, biotin may improve comedonal acne, which is the kind that causes blackheads and whiteheads.
Also, because avocado has anti-inflammatory effects, it can help reduce the redness and irritation associated with acne.
Homemade Avocado Face Mask Recipes
Recipe #1: Avocado Honey Face Mask (The Best Avocado Face Mask)
Homemade face masks with avocado are usually a better choice than store-bought options. That's because you can use natural ingredients and completely control the proportions. Depending on your skin type and skin concerns, you can easily adapt the recipe to better fit your beauty and wellness goals!
In this recipe, each ingredient serves a specific purpose. The rolled oats have anti-inflammatory properties that soothe and calm the skin. Lavender essential oils also are quite calming and relaxing.
Honey can help heal skin conditions like acne, eczema, and psoriasis. Lemon acts as a brightening agent, and coconut oil helps moisturize the skin.)
Ingredients
1 tablespoon rolled oats, coarsely ground
1/2 ripe avocado
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon raw manuka honey
1 teaspoon coconut oil
2 drops of lavender essential oil
Instructions
Add all ingredients to a food processor or blender and mix until smooth. Wash your face with warm water and pat dry. Apply the face mask with avocado liberally over your face, and let it sit for 20 minutes. Rinse the face mask off with warm water.
Recipe #2: Tea Tree Oil Avocado Facial Mask
Does avocado help acne? Yes! Avocado has antimicrobial properties and is excellent for reducing inflammation and redness from acne.
This recipe is made for those with more oily skin or acne-prone skin. It uses yogurt to calm redness and tea tree oil to manage acne-causing bacteria.
Ingredients
1/2 ripe avocado, mashed
1-2 drops tea tree oil
2 tablespoons plain yogurt
Instructions
Mix all ingredients until smooth.
Wash your face with warm water and pat dry.
Apply the face mask liberally over your face, and let it sit for 15 minutes.
Rinse the face mask off with warm water.
Recipe #3: Avocado and Oatmeal Face Mask
Face masks with avocado can improve the tone and texture of your skin, making it more soft and supple. This recipe uses apple cider vinegar to help smooth and clarify the skin. The oats help remove dead skin cells and clear the way for fresher skin. Lastly, the lemon juice and avocado can help address dark spots or dark under-eye circles.
Ingredients
1/2 tablespoon oats, finely ground
1/4 cup avocado
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon coconut oil
1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions
Add the oats to a food processor or blender and mix until finely ground. Move oats to a medium bowl.
Add the avocado, lemon, honey, coconut oil, and vinegar to the bowl. Mash with a fork until smooth.
Wash your face with warm water and pat dry.
Apply the face mask liberally over your face, and let it sit for 15 to 20 minutes. Gently massage it into the skin, and allow the oats to act as a natural exfoliant. (Not quite like an exfoliating scrub, but with similar skin benefits!)
Rinse the face mask off with warm water.
If you'd like to experiment with some other DIY avocado face mask recipes, check out this video!
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