Replicate the Eve Lom Rescue Mask At Home!
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When strolling along shelves at our local Space NK (UK’s little and perhaps greener sister of Sephora) I couldn’t help but pick the jar of my old time favorite, Eve Lom’s Rescue mask.
What never ceases to amaze me is the marketing genius who can take a couple tablespoons of clay, mix it with water, honey, and camphor, score a few celebrity testimonials, and sell the mix for $100 a jar.
So what’s in the highly acclaimed mask which I diligently used for years (and to no results) until I switched to green products? Clay, water, glycerin, alcohol, honey, almond meal, allantoin, and camphor. The rest is fillers and preservatives.
Check out for yourself (ingredients taken from Even Lom website): kaolin, aqua (water), glycerin, alcohol denat., mel (honey), prunus amygdalus dulcis (almond meal and extract), camphor, magnesium aluminum silicate, sodium chloride, allantoin, aluminum chlorohydrate, propylene glycol, magnesium chloride, methylparaben, phenoxyethanol, butylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben, isobutylparaben, calcium chloride.
Can you replicate it at home? Of course you can! I have already done it. Take two tablespoons of clay of your choice. I use Dead Sea mud, but you can use kaolin or bentonite if you feel like it. Add a teaspoon honey, some fine oatmeal, ideally organic, and two drops camphor or better yet, tea tree oil. Add just enough water to make a comfortably soft paste and apply. Keep it on your skin for ten minutes and rinse off carefully with tepid water. You can also use it as a spot treatment for your blemishes.
By replicating nice but oh-so-not-green products at home you are not paying 900% premium on preservatives, marketing gimmicks, or fancy packaging, and you always know what goes into your mask and ultimately inside your skin.
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