Battle Green’s facial masks are made from natural ingredients, and sold in compostable packaging (each sachet has enough for 5 to 8 applications).
They contain kaolin clay to draw out impurities, bentonite clay to absorb oil and arrowroot powder to soften skin. Just mix with water, apply to clean skin, leave for 5 to 10 minutes and wash off.
Always carry out a patch test, avoid reactions. Keep away from children and pets. Avoid essential oils for pregnancy/nursing and affected medical conditions. Avoid seaweed for thyroid issues.
Reducing waste is one good idea, to save on plastic tubes of face masks sold in supermarkets. But also these face masks are made with biodegradable ingredients, which are far better for your skin and the planet, once they rinse down sinks and showers.
Many of the new ‘chemical sheet masks’ for single use are actually banned in some countries abroad, not yet here.
Choose from:
- Chamomile & turmeric (fragrance-free)
- Charcoal & tea tree (good for oily and congested skin)
- Raspberry & orange (with exfoliating upcycled raspberries & kelp)
- Rose & beetroot (with cleansing mango powder)
- Cocoa & ginger (good to soothe angry skin)
How to Choose the Best Face Mask for Your Skin
If you have:
- Normal Skin – look for ingredients like oats, which balance and brighten.
- Dry Skin – look for masks with hydrating aloe vera
- Oily Skin – look for activated charcoal and bentonite clay masks
- Sensitive Skin – look for chamomile or calendula, which calm and reduce redness. Again oats are good.
Masks are simple (if a bit messy) to use. Just apply to cleansed skin with your hands, avoiding the eye area. Leave on for the recommended time, then rinse with warm water.
An Organic Sleep Mask (hydrate skin overnight)
Hydra-Glow Sleep Mask is an organic overnight cream that’s perfect to lock in moisture – a citrus spa in a jar! Purifying Mace Mask is scent-free, with activated charcoal, bentonite clay and by-product coconut shells. AHA Radiance Mask is more to restore dull and mature skin, scented with mandarin & neroli.
Facial Masks in Glass Jars (from Yorkshire)
Sweet Cecily’s Pink Face Mask is sold in a glass jar. Handmade in Whitby (Yorkshire), the superfine white clay is made from rock sediment washed with rainwater, and ideal for sensitive skin. Just mix with water. Also in green clay (for oily skin) and red clay (for normal skin and broken capillaries).
Clay masks mix with water. Apply to clean skin, leave for 5 to 10 minutes and wash off. When choosing face masks, go for green clay (oily skin), pink clay (dry skin).
Kaolin Clay Facial Masks (upcycled olive stones)
Upcircle is a wonderful skin care brand that sells vegan items made with upcycled ingredients from industry. As well as being ethical and sold in zero waste packaging, the results are amazing (check out before/after images below, given with permission by users, to show how cruelty-free beauty works better than conventional brands).
Reducing waste is one good idea, to save on plastic tubes of face masks sold in supermarkets. But also these face masks are made with biodegradable ingredients, which are far better for your skin and the planet, once they rinse down sinks and showers.
First Biodegradable Sheet Beauty Masks
BeautyPro is a Plymouth/Lewes company that has created the world’s first biodegradable sheet masks. Founded by two men who work in the beauty industry, their first invention of a portable hot towel steamer for mobile beauty therapists went down a treat.
So they decided to create these alternatives to sheet masks instead, made with natural ingredients in plastic-free packaging.
To use, just open and place the sheet mask on your face, sit back and relax for 15 minutes. The mask contains enough product to use 3 times, when the mask and pouch are both biodegradable, so break down once binned in around 75 days.
The paper pouch is printed with vegetable inks, and contains a thin food-grade plastic lining with a unique additive that changes molecular structure when opened, so is no longer a plastic. So once opened, the pouch begins to biodegrade.
The range includes:
- Cica + Niacinamide (blemish control) is made from bamboo fibre and contains cassava root and chia seed to reduce oil and inflammation. Cassava reduces redness.
- Retinol (anti-ageing) contains seaweed to stimulate natural collagen and even skin tone, and organic pine oil to help reduce inflammation and blemishes.
- Squalane (nourishing) uses olive-based squalane (not from sharks, like most versions). This again helps to stimulate your own production of collagen to improve elasticity, and also contains antioxidant passionfruit and organic oils of sweet almond and almond.
- Vitamin C (brightening) uses blueberry for antioxidants, yuzu citrus to stimulate collagen production and sea buckthorn (rich in vitamins to deeply hydrate skin).
- Hyaluronic acid (hydrating) uses soy-bean derived ingredient (most hyaluronic acid on sale is made from rooster-combing, and we don’t like the sound of that). This holds up to 1000 times its weight in water, making this mask the perfect way to rehydrate parched skin. Also includes wild rose for scent and chamomile to reduce redness.