I haven’t tried out a new face mask in ages, however I have been dying to since fleshing out my self-care routine in quarantine. So quite a while ago (before lockdown began) I went to a Lush store and asked for some recommendations. I used to love their love lettuce mask, but unfortunately it was discontinued way back in 2017. With this in mind I asked the very helpful sales assistant and she pointed me in the direction of the brazened honey mask.

One of the best things about Lush’s face masks is that if you return five of the empty black pots in store you can get a free face mask. So once stores are back up and running - I am going to head in and buy more so I can work my way up to that free facial!

The brazened honey mask’s main objective is to refresh and detoxify your skin leaving it feeling renewed. When it was being created the brazen honey mask was heavily inspired by the Ayurveda healing system, which is in fact one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems - founded in India over 3000 years ago.

The main ingredients of the mask are honey, ginger, fresh lime juice and fennel. All of which when combined make a very fresh and energised aroma. I usually do my face masks at night, however this scent got me thinking, perhaps I should move my face masks to one or two mornings a week to wake me up?

Upon opening the pot - the colour of the mask doesn’t look so appealing. However this is because all of Lush’s products are made from 100% natural ingredients, therefore all of their items have a more natural colour. From a first glance you can see that the mask is quite thick and clay like with pieces of ground almond shells in it. I summise that these are for exfoliating properties.

I just applied the mask with my hands, but of course you can use any tool of you choosing to get the mixture out of the pot. As I’ve said previously, the formula is very thick so it was kind of difficult to apply. Once applied, I left it on for about 10 minuets.

The mask dries very quickly, making your skin feel a bit tight and hard, however this is the same with most clay textured masks so it didn’t really bother me. What did bother me was the amount of time it took to wash the mask off fully. Maybe I applied it too thick but I can tell you it took quite a lot of water and scrubbing to get it off. On the plus side, the scrubbing did make use of the crushed almond shells and I got a nice exfoliating clean towards the end. Finally once the mask was removed completely, my skin did feel slightly more bouncy and definitely more clean. However I wouldn’t say that from an appearance point of view it made much difference to my skin. On the other hand, this was just after one use - so who knows, maybe after a few more uses my skin will be as glowy as ever?