Whether your skin is begging for a boost of radiance and moisture after a day of sun and wind at the beach or you’ve broken out after a string of hot, humid days, there’s a perfect mask for that—not to mention a skin device to supercharge it. What we love about clean face masks in particular is that they’re so concentrated; without the fillers, texturizers, fragrances, and other ingredients that are potentially hazardous to our health, there’s more space for active botanicals to nourish and replenish our skin.
A mask can be a nearly nightly ritual, or it can mark the end of a long week (perhaps accompanied by a soak in a bath or even a sweat in a sauna blanket or a gem-mat session). Either way, cleanse first: Applying your mask to wet skin increases absorption and thus the effectiveness of the mask.
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Jelly
goop Beauty Cloudberry Exfoliating JellyCleansergoop, $35/$25 with subscription SHOP NOW -
Balm
True Botanicals Ginger Turmeric CleansingBalmgoop, $48 SHOP NOW -
Cream
Pick the Mask That’s Right for Your Skin
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Detox for Clearer Skin
A detoxifying mask sweeps away oil, dead skin cells, dirt, and other impurities that can build up in pores. Depending on your skin type, look for ingredients like clays, acids, sulfur, and zinc oxide.
Clay
This clay mask is great if you have oily, blemish-prone skin: It combines rose and geranium oils to cleanse and purify pores, white clay to slough away dead skin, and wheat germ to help even skin tone.
- Grown Alchemist Deep Cleansing Facial Masquegoop, $40 SHOP NOW
Sulfur and Zinc Oxide
Both of these ingredients are fabulous for sensitive types and work powerfully to detoxify and purify skin. Sulfur deeply exfoliates pores, getting rid of dirt, excess oil, and dead skin, and zinc oxide smooths and soothes skin. Bonus: This is brilliant as a full face mask but also amazing as a spot treatment.
- Goldfaden MD Facial Detoxgoop, $68 SHOP NOW
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Moisturize Deeply
For dry, beach-worn, or irritated skin, a super hydrating mask feels incredible as it brings the look of your skin back to life, renewing, plumping, and smoothing.
Sheet Mask
This mask’s all-star ingredients—including seaweed, marine collagen, and hyaluronic acid—moisturize and soothe the skin, and antioxidants nourish, too.
- Dr. Nigma Treatment Mask No. 1goop, $120 SHOP NOW
Moisturizing Clay
For a boost of radiance and moisture, this mask—great for all skin types—leaves your skin firm, calm, and ultrahydrated. The combination of a nourishing pink clay blend and soothing rose water sinks into your skin for dewy results that really last. If your skin is feeling extra dry, you can leave the mask on overnight for revived, supple skin in the a.m.
- Tammy Fender Restorative Radiance Masquegoop, $195 SHOP NOW
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Boost Your Glow
There’s nothing like an exfoliating mask to revitalize dull skin for a brighter, more radiant, just-took-a-dip-in-the-pool face.
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Keep this magical mask in your shower and you’ll find yourself reaching for it every few days (it’s Gwyneth’s favorite product). Both physical (quartz, garnet, alumina, and silica) and chemical (glycolic acid) exfoliants combine to polish and even your skin for the ultimate goop glow.
- goop Beauty Microderm Instant Glow Exfoliatorgoop, $125/$112 with subscription SHOP NOW
Bakuchiol and Collagen
Fruit enzymes and amino acids exfoliate and resurface, bakuchiol targets fine lines and wrinkles, and two types of collagen plump and smooth for luminous skin.
- VENN Collagen Intensive Phyto-Retinol Resurfacing Maskgoop, $120 SHOP NOW
Amazing for Sensitive Skin
Even people with sensitive skin can (and should) use exfoliants. This one from Tata Harper’s line for sensitive and reactive skin uses lactic acid to dissolve dead skin cells without irritation for smoother, brighter skin. It’s made with prebiotics for microbiome balance and a sugar-carbohydrate complex for longer-lasting moisture.
- Tata Harper Radiance Maskgoop, $68 SHOP NOW
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There Are Even Masks for Lips andEyes
You can do these masks at the same time you’re doing an allover face mask or spot-treat as needed. Either way, they feel absolutely incredible.
Wake Up Your Whole Face
Soaked in a milky serum made with highly active skin-boosting ingredients like honey locust seed extract, olive leaf stem cells, and niacinamide, these sheet masks for eyes are easy to apply, and they smooth and depuff, waking up your entire face.
- goop Beauty Lift + Depuff Eye Masksgoop, $125/$112 with subscription SHOP NOW
Before-Bed Lip Mask
This rich, cushiony ultramoisturizing mask transforms dull, dry lips into the supplest, smoothest, most-hydrated version of themselves. Thick, luxurious, and loaded with moisture-boosting salicornia (sea succulent), plumping hyaluronic acid, antioxidant-rich mango butter, and papaya enzymes to exfoliate gently, it’s especially great to use overnight.
- ILIA Lip Wrap Overnight Treatment Maskgoop, $26 SHOP NOW
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How to Supercharge Results
Combine a topical mask with red or blue light, heat, cooling, vibration, or even electrical treatments and you won’t believe your skin.
LED Light
This futuristic-looking gadget uses red and blue LED light to decrease the appearance of fine lines, treat breakouts, and soothe irritated skin. Use it after a face mask or other skin treatment to amplify your results.
- Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite FaceWare Progoop, $455 SHOP NOW
Electrical Treatment
This FDA-cleared handheld microcurrent device delivers incredible results and is incredibly easy to use (it connects to your phone via Bluetooth to give you step-by-step tutorials and more). The set comes with a conductive gel that works to nourish your skin as the device sculpts, lifts, and smooths—and it’s best used before or after a topical mask.
Percussive Therapy, Microcurrent, and LED Light—Plus Heat and Cryotherapy
This device comes with six different attachments to customize facial treatments: percussive therapy extensions to massage and help relieve tension, a microcurrent ring to stimulate facial muscles, an LED light therapy ring to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles around the eyes (red and infrared light) and mild to moderate acne (blue light), and a cleansing ring to help remove impurities and buildup. We especially love the bonus attachments—heat and cryotherapy rings—to help the amazing skin-care ingredients from a mask penetrate deeply.
- Therabody TheraFace PROgoop, $399 SHOP NOW
- Therabody TheraFace Pro Hot and Cold Ringsgoop, $99 SHOP NOW
Vibration
Top makeup artist Jillian Dempsey created this brilliant vibrating gold bar to lift and sculpt the face. You can use it after a mask or over a sheet mask. (Bonus: The vibration feels amazing, too.)
- Jillian Dempsey Gold Sculpting Bargoop, $195 SHOP NOW
Vibration, Microcurrent, Heat, and Red Light
This easy-to-use multitasking wand simulataneously delivers four different skin treatments in just five minutes. Before or after a mask, touch the wand to your skin (it’s touch-activated) for microcurrent, red light therapy, vibrating facial massage, and therapeutic warmth.
- SolaWave Solawave Wandgoop, $149 SHOP NOW
Near-Infrared Clinic-Grade Laser
The only 500mW laser cleared by the FDA for at-home use, this powerful clinic-grade laser smooths, firms, and brightens skin. Use it three minutes a day per area for 12 weeks days to see truly spectacular results.
- Lyma Lyma Laser Starter Kitgoop, $2,700 SHOP NOW
What to Do While Masking
- goop Beauty “The Martini” Emotional Detox Bath Soakgoop, $40 A body-and-spirit-centering bath soak infused with pink Himalayan salt, valerian root, and Australian sandalwood. SHOP NOW
- HealthyLine Gemstone Heat Therapy Matgoop, $1,049 An at-home spa mat with five natural therapies, including hot gemstones, red light, and infrared heat. SHOP NOW
- HigherDOSE Infrared PEMF Matgoop, $1,295 Experience the magic of infrared without the intense sweat session. SHOP NOW
- HigherDOSE Infrared Sauna Blanket V4goop, $699 Infrared sauna for one: Sweat, relax, and recharge. SHOP NOW
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