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How Different Types Of Clay Benefit Your Skin
Clay for skin
Clay is a great natural ingredient for skin care. It can help to detoxify the skin, draw out impurities, and even help to reduce inflammation. It can even help to boost collagen production, giving your skin a more youthful appearance.
If you’re looking for a way to give your skin a boost, consider using a clay mask. It’s an easy way to improve your skin’s health and appearance. Clay has been used in skincare for centuries, and for good reason. This naturally occurring ingredient has powerful detoxifying and absorbent properties that make it ideal for cleansing and purifying the skin.
Clay face masks are great to add to your skincare routine to give it a boost of nutrients and minerals, and can even help to exfoliate the skin. If you have sensitive skin, be sure to choose a clay mask that is suitable for your skin type. You can also find clays that are specifically formulated for oily or acne-prone skin.
When using a clay face mask, be sure to follow the directions on the packaging. Typically, you will want to apply the mask to clean, dry skin.
Different Types of clay
Clay is one of the most versatile and widely used materials in existence. It has a long history of use in a variety of applications, and there are many different types of clay that can be used for different purposes.
There are a variety of clays that can be used in skin care, each with its own unique benefits. Depending on your skin type, there is a clay that can help improve your complexion. Clay can help to remove impurities and dead cells, and leave feeling softer and smoother. It can also help to improve circulation and promote healing. Different types of clay have different benefits, so it is important to choose the right one for your skin type.
Some of the most popular types of clay used include:
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Kaolin Clay: This is a gentle clay that is ideal for sensitive skin types. It helps to absorb dirt, without stripping its natural oils.
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Bentonite Clay: This is a more powerful clay that is great for oily and blemish-prone skin. It helps to draw out impurities and unclog pores.
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French pink clay: This is a very soft clay that is gentle on the skin. It can be used to cleanse the skin, remove impurities, and stimulate circulation. It is also effective in treating acne and other skin conditions.
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Rhassoul Clay: This clay is rich in minerals and is great for all skin types. It helps to exfoliate dead cells.
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French Green Clay: This clay is perfect for normal to combination skin and helps brighten skin.
Kaolin Clay
Best for…
Oily skin
Sensitive skin
Exfoliation
Cleansing
Kaolin clay is one of the most common clays, extracted all over the planet. Also known as China clay, it's named after the Kao-ling mountains in China where is was originally mined. It contains the mineral Kaolinite, and in its pure form should be bright white although, the colour varies depending on where it was mined, and what other minerals are present. There are two main types of kaolin clay: hard and soft.
In the US the main areas where kaolin clay has been mined is central Georgia. The deposits were formed more than 50 million years ago.
One of the earliest uses of kaolin clay was to make pottery, it was especially famous in china as the main ingredient use to make porcelain. Now kaolin has many uses including paper manufacturing, medicine, toothpaste, organic farming and of course skin care!
In skin care kaolin clay is the gentlest of all clays and therefore perfect for reactive and dry skin.
It has great absorbent properties soaking up excess oil and dirt from the pores.
This allows it to detoxify your skin by making sure your pores don’t become blocked or clogged, without stripping away too many of the natural oils needed to keep your skin healthy.
Silica is one of the main components of Kaolin clay and it is known to help remove bacteria from your skin. This can help improve acne when used regularly.
Its also a great exfoliator gentle removing dead skin cells and leaving your skin silky smooth. You can find white Kaolin clay in our popular Honey Exfoliating Mask.
French pink Clay
Best for…
Reactive skin
Mature skin
Dry skin
Skin repair
French pink clay is found in France, and is actually a perfect mix of while kaolin and red clay. The red clay gets its colour from a high levels of iron oxide.
This creates a beautiful mild pink clay that is great for mature skin as it can remove oil and dirt without leaving the skin feeling dry.
The high levels of iron oxide help revitalise and brighten the skins appearance. It also improves circulation strengthening elasticity and promoting skin regeneration.
It also most effective for polishing and exfoliating dry skin without irritation, as the pink clay has anti-inflammatory properties which can help reduce redness and rosacea.
You can try pink clay in our Rose and Match Tea Exfoliating mask.
French Green Clay
Best For...
Acne prone skin
Oily skin
Deep pore cleansing
Detoxifying
Green clay has a long history in some of the oldest civilisations and was used by Greeks and Romans in various traditional therapies.
While it's mined all over the world, it got the name 'French Green Clay' at a time when France monopolised the market after discovering large quantities of high quality green clay in the rock quarries in southern France. For a while green clay was mined there
exclusively, until similar deposits were found in in America and China.
It gets its green colour from both iron oxide and decomposed plant matter including seaweed which gives this clay a rich variety of minerals.
Because of its high mineral content, it's probably the most popular clay for beauty treatments. It is said to help restore the balance of minerals in your body by both absorbing access minerals, and topping-up lost minerals. It is super detoxifying, as it has negatively charged ions which attract and neutralise positive ions that are toxins.
This clay has the deepest pore cleansing properties effect of all clays. It really draws out impurities, so is perfect acne prone skin and removing blackheads. It has the highest absorbency of all the clays so it great soaking up excess oil, leaving you feeling fresh and clean.
There is also some studies to show that green clay has antibacterial properties which is helps fighting the causes of acne.
You can find green clay in our Cucumber and Sea Algae Anti Blemish face mask.
