Girl's Night with Mum

I get together with my mum often, every weekend at least and more often than not, multiple nights a week when Adrian's at work. I love my mum. She's fun, easy to talk to, she's a friend… And she loves her grandson! hahah So it's also nice for me to get a bit of a break and be able to relax a bit.

Last night, I brought over all my New Directions Aromatics order so I could show her all the essential oils and butters I bought. Fun for me mostly, i'm sure. However, I did bring over the Rhassoul clay as well so we could try it out together! It had been a week since i'd done it myself, and so I was dying to try it again (i'm not too sure yet how often you can do it). I was hoping we'd get around to doing it when Jaxson was napping, but he had a rough day of teething and so things didn't go as I had hoped. It ended up working out even better, though, because we waited until the evening, fed Jaxson, helped ourselves to a glass of wine, and then indulged! It was pretty hilarious how Jaxson reacted to us with the clay on our faces - he was so unsure! hahah

This time around, we decided to try mixing the clay with milk instead of water. Milk is an awesome face mask ingredient. The lactic acid in milk acts as a natural microdermabrasion for your skin, sloughing away dead skin cells as a gentle exfoliator. It also apparently helps the skin look more radiant, prevents premature aging, shrinks pores, reduces irritation, helps heal wounds and nourishes and softens. Source: Beautiful Skin with Milk. I've used milk, or yogurt, a couple times in masks and I absolutely love it.

I used 2 tablespoons of clay (which, again, ended up being way too much), because I read that the ratio for a mask, with any liquid with this clay is 1 part clay, 1/2 part liquid. Boy, was that wrong! I ended up using a 3:1 ratio milk:clay! This made a beautiful paste, but it was way thicker than when I did it with water. I actually liked this, because it was a bit easier to apply.

As before, the clay went on beautifully, and we both immediately commented on how soft and smooth it was. One thing I instantly loved about this with milk is it didn't start drying as quickly, and took way longer to dry, so it didn't get painfully tight.

Jaxson gave us the most hilarious looks when we came out of the bathroom with our faces covered in this. He didn't know what to think. I think he was a little freaked out, but all he did was stare at us.

Jaxson's first look at us. WTF?

Almost 10 minutes later, and he still has no idea what's going on!

Gramma trying to put him at ease by showing him she's still under that mud!

Something we both noticed, and I believe it was the lactic acid in the milk, because I didn't have this sensation with water, is that after 5 minutes or so, it started to sting/itch a bit. Not in a painful way, but noticeable. I kind of liked it!

We sat for about 20 minutes before washing it off, and it hadn't completely dried like it did with water, but interestingly, it sort of fell off in small clumps. I also noticed that it didn't rehydrate the same way it did with water. It took more water to hydrate it and rub it off, and it came off in bigger chunks as opposed to almost dissolving off.

Stretching our faces and cracking the mask! Felt so good!

Mum immediately commented on how soft and radiant her skin looked. She loved it!! Success!

I enjoyed it just as much this time around, and felt like my skin was just glowing!

Glowing!

It was a fun night, with lots of laughs because of Jaxson's reactions. These things are fun and so easy to do at home by yourself, but I always feel they're way more fun to do with good company!