This Face Mask Looks Like an Expensive Jar of Honey, and I Love It
I’ve already established that now I’m all about honey-based skincare. My new favorite cleansing balm has not only changed how I wash my face, it’s changed my entire medicine cabinet, which is now devoted to honey this and beeswax that. After scouring the Sephora app for honied things, I bought this little set from Farmacy. Farmacy has tons of honey products, and I had no idea where to start. The small sample set includes a cleansing balm (NOT for me, I tossed it after two uses), a lightweight moisturizer (it’s fine), a firming night balm (more on that on Saturday) and a honey hydration mask. I knew after one use that this mask was IT.
Farmacy’s Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask looks like actual honey. Its stringy and sticky and you truly feel like you’re just smearing honey on your face. And then it starts to heat up. Not a lot, but a little. Enough that you can feel it but not so much that you’ll freak out. You massage the honey into your skin for 1-2 minutes, and it turns opaque white and gets all warm and you truly feel like your bathroom has been transformed into a spa, and when you emerge you will look like you’ve just had the best sleep of your life, while on vacation. As an added bonus, during this process you (or maybe just me) have real Pazuzu vibes.
The container is beautiful and really adds to the whole honey theme, but HOW are you mean to fish out all the mask? Especially considering that this stuff is super sticky and hard to deal with? Farmacy thought of that, and the full size mask comes with a metal spatula so you can get every last bit of product, and not end up with an oversized glop of honey on your fingers. AND the spatula is magnetic and sticks to the top of the jar, so you don’t ALSO have to worry about losing the lifesaving spatula. I’m telling you: These folks are geniuses.
After you’ve done the facial massage with your hot honey mask, and taken some time to do a demon impression in the mirror, it’s time to wash this mask off. You’d think that because it applies as a sticky, hard to manage, mess it would be a huge pain to wash off. NOPE. Once you’ve gotten to the white opaque stage and let it sit for awhile, it rinses clean very easily. Although, my method for washing off masks is to stick my face into the shower stream, so YMMV.
This is, currently at least, my favorite mask. It’s not cheap, but I got at least 5 uses from the 0.5oz sample, and this is over eight times that size. And it comes with a handy magnetic spatula! It’s decadent, it’s fun, and it makes my skin glow like a lantern full of fireflies.
