Clay for your skin!

Did you love picking up handfuls of pleasantly cool, greyish, soft balls of clay as a child just to form it into some shape with intense concentration? If you've had the chance to use a potter's wheel, you know how incredible it feels to shape the constantly moving clay with cautious, yet firm motions. Humanity's relationship with clay dates back thousands of years and has yielded many benefits for us: we've used it for construction and to build furnaces, tiles and pottery, yet we still know very little about it.

Perhaps you know that the various specks of minerals can have a wide range of composition and contain varying amounts of metals and salts and, therefore, they can have a highly different appearance.

The various clays have a wide range of different features, yet they all have one thing in common: following a series of various filtering, cleansing and sterilisation processes, the top quality substances can be used for external and internal detoxification, to abate inflammation or fend off infections and have long been used during cleansing cures all over the world. In Hungary, there are numerous spas which use facial and body packs from locally mined medicinal mud and clay, mainly to mitigate the symptoms of musculoskeletal diseases or as a supplementary treatment.

Manna masks are made from four different kinds of clay with distinctive colours, so you could find the right one which suits your skin type and its current condition:

Green clay (montmorillonite)

A clay named after a French settlement from which the green clay was sourced. Oddly enough, the commune is also home to one of the most cheerful pastries in the world, the macaron.

Green clay is great for all types of skin and, after its forced absence, the Manna facial mask containing a combination of clay and green tea is back, which is particularly recommended for greasy skin.

Blue clay (bentonite)

The Mattifying, nourishing mask with blue clay was specifically developed for greasy, problematic skin or for combined skin with greasy, oily spots. We've also added freshwater algae (spirulina) and the deadly foe of spots, the pure-scented tea tree essential oil.

White clay (kaolinite)

We mixed the white, powder-like material with goat's milk, pineapple and banana powder to refresh your skin when mixed with water or yogurt. Try our Skin-nourishing mask with white clay to care for your dry skin.


Alginite

This rare treasure of the Upper Balaton region is a fossil clay which was formed millions of years ago in volcanic crater lakes. I particularly recommend it for normal, non-problematic skin, yet you can also try using it on slightly dry and combined skin as well.

If you've experienced metal allergies in the past, I suggest for you to only use our clay masks after testing them on the skin of the inside of your wrist.

All four Manna masks are provided in powdered form and you can mix them with water, herbal tea (nettle, camomile, walnut leaf) freshly squeezed fruit juice (grape juice, lemon water, apple or watermelon juice) flower waters and apply them on your facial skin, before leaving them on for 5-10 minutes and subsequently wash them off with warm water before they completely dry out

+ TIP: If you have dry, dehydrated skin, you can add a few drops of Manna beauty oil to slow the drying of the mask on your face while the oil is absorbed.