Top Face Masks for Dry, Oily, Mature and Irritated Skin

I Pick Your Best Face Masks from Cheap to Steep

An important part of your weekly or monthly skin routine is hydration. Depending on your skin type, a great mask can remove excess oils or hydrate very dry skin. While you can make your own masks out of ingredients found in your refrigerator or pantry, you can buy some great ones, too.

I recommend leaving these masks on your face for 5-10 minutes and then rinsing with a

warm washcloth. The washcloth
acts as a natural exfoliant. Baby washcloths are the best for this, I've found. They are super soft (try ones made from bamboo) and won't tear at skin.

I love Ahava products because they're so simply made but with the most luxurious of ingredients (hello, Dead Sea mineral-rich mud!) but they don't cost so much you feel like you have to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a week. This hydrating mud-based mask has won many awards from beauty magazines, but what I like about it is it really rich, leaving skin feeling super soft, supple and hydrated.You can wash it off after 15 minutes, or for best results, you can actually sleep in it.

Masks for oily skin work by removing excess oil and blackheads. This face mask was named a Best Beauty Buy by Allure Magazine in 2010. The editors loved it because the salicylic and glycolic acids do a great job of exfoliating skin and helping to remove blackheads from problem areas, while the eijitsu rose helps minimize the appearance of large pores.I have not tried it because I have dry skin, 

but

 users report it dries to a light blue after a few minutes and leaves a cool tingling sensation. I would store this in the refrigerator because these types of products work optimally when very cold.

When it comes to acne masks, look for products containing bentonite and sulfur, which have the anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties.

This mask from Origins was by far the best-rated and most talked about mask for acne that I found in my research.

The charcoal in this universally beloved facial mask pulls dirt, bacteria and dead skin from your pores to the surface. The white china clay and

lecithin work together to dissolve any remaining impurities.

A good acne mask helps sop up oils, while dissolving dead skin cells that clog up pores. This drying mask does just that. Apply during breakouts a couple times a week and watch as the calamine, kaolin and sulfur work to clear up skin.