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Last reviewed: 06.07.2025

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An egg face mask is quite useful and is prepared easily, quickly and does not require significant financial investment compared to store masks. Another, and most important, advantage of this mask is its naturalness, which makes it even more valuable.
Using an egg mask for the face provides quality care for the skin of the face without leaving home. An egg mask for the face can be made from either the protein or the yolk. Both ingredients in the egg structure improve the properties of the skin - the protein part dries oily skin and eliminates minor wrinkles, and the yolk part soothes and provides moisture to the skin of the face. Masks made at home can be used more than twice a week, compared to store-bought ones.
When using eggs through face masks, you need to know the main points:
- use only fresh eggs without cracks,
- Before removing the white and yolk, it is better to wash the egg shell,
- the extracted yolk and white must be used immediately, without waiting for them to dry out,
- Do not use if you have an allergic reaction to eggs.
Benefits of egg white for the face
The benefits of egg white for the face have been known for a long time, which is why it is often used in cosmetology. Egg white has a positive effect on the condition of the skin of the face, because it contains important amino acids that the human body cannot produce itself, and a complex of vitamins from group B. Egg white has the following effect on the skin of the face:
- tightens and eliminates fine wrinkles,
- has a disinfecting effect, which eliminates even very severe irritations on the skin of the face,
- cleanses and tightens pores,
- dries oily skin and reduces its oily shine,
- together with lemon effectively whitens the skin of the face.
Using the protein part of the egg, it is possible to prepare various masks with the addition of various natural ingredients that can be found in your home. After using the protein mask, the desired effect is noted after the first use.
Indications for the use of egg white through face masks:
- oily skin,
- problem areas on the skin with elements of inflammation (pimples, acne),
- presence of areas of excess pigmentation (lightens acne spots, freckles),
- age-related skin changes (presence of minor wrinkles),
- for the purpose of cleansing and nourishing combination skin.
It is not advisable to use masks that contain protein for very thin, dry skin, since protein dries and has a tightening effect.
Benefits of egg yolk for the face
The benefits of egg yolk for the face are high, as well as from the protein. The yolk is quite common and is a frequent ingredient in the preparation of face masks. Since it is rich in macro - and microelements, vitamin complex B, A, E and D, which significantly improves the properties of the skin:
- saturates the skin with moisture and nutrients,
- has a calming, antioxidant effect and improves skin tone due to its content of lecithin (a phospholipid that is a building material for the renewal of damaged cells, and also serves as a transport substance for the delivery of vitamins and essential substances to cells).
- helps restore the skin's protective properties.
Using egg yolk for your skin will make it healthier, younger and more beautiful. It can be used in any cosmetic masks, if there are no allergic reactions.
Indications for use of a face mask containing egg yolk:
- severe dryness of the skin, accompanied by peeling,
- the presence of cracks in the skin,
- fading and flabby skin,
- dull skin tone,
- saturate any skin type with moisture and nutrients.
Quail eggs for face
Quail eggs are highly valuable for the face. There is an opinion that quail eggs are even more useful because:
- less likely to cause allergies,
- they contain 2.5 times more vitamins B and A,
- the content of macro- and microelements is 4.5 - 5 times greater.
Quail eggs have been popular in making face masks since ancient times. Quail eggs for the face have a pronounced rejuvenating, strengthening effect on the skin and increase its tone due to a richer vitamin composition, amino acid and mineral composition.
Face mask with honey and egg
A face mask with honey and egg fills the skin well with moisture and essential substances. To prepare this mask, the yolk is used, and the lecithin included in it provides more effective and deep penetration of nutrients into the skin and the renewal of its protective functions. You can prepare a mask based on honey and eggs as follows:
- Honey (five grams) is mixed with a raw yolk and spread on the skin. After fifteen minutes, it is necessary to wash off.
- To saturate the skin of the face with the substances it needs, for sensitive and delicate cleansing, you can add another fifteen grams of oatmeal (or oatmeal without sugar and salt) to the composition.
- In order to make a nutritive face mask from honey (fifteen grams) and egg (one raw yolk), it is recommended to add olive oil (fifteen milliliters). Then spread it on the skin of the face and wash off after fifteen minutes. There is no need to use a cream after the mask. Olive oil can be replaced with another oil of vegetable origin: from almond, peach, flax, apricot, pumpkin, etc. This mask will be good for very dry skin, accompanied by peeling.
- For dry skin, a mask will be good, which includes: honey (fifteen grams), olive oil (half a teaspoon), rose water (five milliliters) and one egg (both yolk and white). The egg is pre-beaten, honey is heated in a water bath and all the ingredients are mixed. Apply the mask for fifteen minutes and wash off.
Egg White Face Mask
A face mask with egg white is most often used by people with oily skin. This mask dries, removes oily shine, relieves inflammation, narrows enlarged pores and saturates the skin with nutrients. In addition, this mask lightens pigmented areas of the skin (freckles, acne spots).
A face mask with egg white is prepared with the addition of a wide variety of natural ingredients.
- One of the simple masks with protein - extract the protein from the egg and spread it raw on the skin, if desired, you can whip it into a foam. After the protein dries, you need to wash your face.
- If there is an additional need to lighten the skin or pigment spots on it, then it is necessary to mix the raw protein of one egg with lemon juice (five to ten milliliters). Apply this mask for ten to fifteen minutes and wash off. Lemon juice can be replaced with any other sour juice, just take fifteen milliliters (for example, cranberry, pomegranate, sour apple, grapes, etc.).
- To degrease, dry and mattify the skin, you can combine raw egg white with fermented milk products (fifteen to thirty grams). Fermented milk products include kefir, sour milk, low-fat yogurt, whey, and sour milk. Apply the mask to the skin and wash off after ten to fifteen minutes.
- A drying and cleansing mask made from egg white can be made by adding flour (wheat, oatmeal, rice). Add flour to one raw egg white until a paste-like consistency is obtained. Apply the mask for fifteen minutes and wash off. In this mask, you can take nut flour, which can be prepared independently from different nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds). Grind the nuts and mix fifteen grams of chopped nuts with the egg white. Apply the mask to the skin and perform light massaging movements for two minutes. Then leave the mask on for about ten minutes and wash off.
- For very oily skin, you can add cosmetic clay (ten grams) to one raw egg white. If there are areas of inflammation, acne, it is better to take blue clay. The ingredients are mixed well so that there are no lumps left, and spread on the skin of the face for about fifteen minutes, then wash off. Such a mask not only has a drying effect and removes the oily shine of the skin, but also relieves inflammation.
- For combination skin, mix one raw egg white with honey (five grams) and olive oil - fifteen grams (can be replaced with avocado or grape seed oil). The resulting mass is mixed with cottage cheese or sour cream (fifteen grams). Then spread the mask on the face and wash off after fifteen minutes.
- For oily skin, a vitamin mask containing one raw egg white or fifteen grams of grated apple will be useful. Apply the mask to the skin of the face and wash off after fifteen minutes. Instead of an apple, you can take any other chopped fruits (strawberries, grapes, raspberries, currants, pears, oranges, etc.).
- To achieve a lightening effect for oily skin, use a mask that includes one raw egg white and thirty grams of parsley (you can take sorrel, dill or chopped cucumber). The resulting mixture is applied to the face (on freckles, pigment spots) and washed off after fifteen minutes.
Face mask with quail eggs
A face mask made from quail eggs is no less effective than one made from chicken eggs. The mask can be prepared from a whole egg or from the white or yolk separately. Masks containing quail eggs can be prepared with the addition of various natural ingredients.
- For dry skin, use a mask to which three quail yolks and fifteen grams of vegetable oil are added. The thoroughly mixed mixture is applied with massaging movements for fifteen to twenty minutes and washed off with warm water. Thus, the skin is moisturized, saturated with the necessary beneficial substances, as a result of which:
- becomes more elastic,
- acquires a healthy and even complexion,
- restores its protective properties,
- and wrinkles are also smoothed out.
- For oily skin, use raw, unbeaten egg whites, which are spread on the skin layer by layer as they dry. After fifteen minutes, the face must be washed. The result of the mask:
- pores are cleansed,
- eliminates oily shine,
- the skin becomes more toned.
- minor wrinkles are eliminated,
- relieves irritation.
- For dry skin, you can prepare a mask containing three beaten quail yolks, liquid honey (five grams) and oatmeal - add until you get the consistency of thick sour cream. Apply the mask for fifteen to twenty minutes, then wash off and apply a compress.
- You can make a universal mask, which is prepared from two quail eggs, fifteen grams of vegetable oil and one or two drops of lavender oil. All the ingredients are whipped and spread on the skin of the face, you need to wash it off after fifteen to twenty minutes.
- To eliminate acne, use a mask containing three quail egg whites and five grams of crushed cucumber pulp. Apply the mask for twenty minutes and wash your face.
- Another mask for acne, which contains one beaten quail egg, thirty milliliters of strawberry juice and fifteen milliliters of grapefruit juice. Apply for a quarter of an hour, then wash off.
- Nutritive universal mask, which contains four quail eggs, one chicken yolk and mashed pumpkin pulp (one glass). Apply for twenty minutes, then wash off
- For normal skin, you can prepare a mask containing three beaten quail eggs, half an avocado (pulp), five grams of mayonnaise, five grams of soda and honey, a few drops of lemon. Apply to the skin of the face for twenty minutes, then wash your face.
Face mask with eggs and lemon
A face mask with eggs and lemon will be useful for those who want to get a whitening effect along with improving the properties of the skin. A mask based on protein is used for combination and oily skin, and a mask based on yolk is mainly for dry skin, as well as combination skin. •
Raw egg white (one) must be mixed with avocado (pulp of one fruit) and add half a teaspoon of lemon juice. The prepared mixture is applied to the skin until it dries and washed off.
- The white of a raw egg is first beaten into a strong foam, mixed with the juice obtained from half a lemon and beaten again. The prepared mask should be applied to the face and washed off after fifteen minutes.
- The white of one egg, beaten beforehand, is mixed with lemon juice (five milliliters), cognac (five grams) and cucumber juice (30 grams). The resulting mixture is applied to the face until it dries and washed off.
- Mix one yolk, vegetable oil (fifteen grams) and lemon juice (five milliliters). Rub the resulting mixture gently into the skin of the face and wash off after fifteen minutes.
- You can beat one whole egg and add lemon juice. Then apply this mask layer by layer, on each dried layer. You will get about three to four layers. This manipulation takes about forty minutes, but the effect is amazing - swelling is eliminated, skin color and its properties are improved, fine wrinkles are eliminated.
Facial cleansing with egg
Egg facial cleansing gives good results and is often used to remove blackheads and inflammation. Facial cleansing takes from an hour to an hour and a half. For maximum effect, the skin must be clean and makeup-free before cleansing.
- It is necessary to separate the yolk and the white. Beat the white and apply it to the skin (leave the eyebrows alone), tightly place paper napkins (or disposable handkerchiefs) on top of the white, apply the white again on top of the napkins for about fifteen minutes until the mask dries, then carefully remove the paper and wash. After - beat the remaining yolk slightly and apply it to the face, after twenty minutes wash and wipe with lotion for moisturizing.
- Facial cleansing can be done using the following mask: cottage cheese is ground (15 grams) with honey (three grams), an egg is added (one) and beaten well. This mask is applied to the skin and washed off after fifteen to twenty minutes. After the mask is washed off, the skin is wiped with ice.
- For normal and dry skin, a gentle scrub mask consisting of eggshells ground to the consistency of flour (eight grams) with the addition of one yolk is perfect. Apply the prepared mixture using light massaging movements and wash off after about ten minutes. Eggshells can be replaced with ground nuts or oatmeal.
Using egg masks causes pores to narrow, improves skin tone, and eliminates blackheads. In general, all masks containing eggs help cleanse the skin.
Facial cleansing at home is not recommended for people with very dry skin, abundant pustules and other inflammations, and in cases where blood vessels are located very close to the skin surface. In such cases, it is better to consult a cosmetologist.
Korean eggs for face
Tony Moly Korean Facial Eggs are a set of four facial care eggs. The Korean egg set includes a cleansing gel, a mask, a primer, and a pore care egg.
- The washing gel helps to cleanse pores and eliminate blackheads, and moisturizes the skin well. The presence of camellia extract has a calming effect on the skin. Inside the egg is a transparent gel containing large yellowish and white, dark gray small particles. When applied to the skin, these particles dissolve, due to which the color and structure of the gel changes - white and watery. This gel is applied to the skin with massaging movements for several minutes and washed off.
- A mask that also helps cleanse and tighten pores. It provides deeper cleansing of the skin from excess sebum and dirt, and also helps tighten pores, due to the presence of clay components such as kaolin and bentonite. The mask is applied for fifteen to twenty minutes and washed off. The skin becomes clean, fresh and smooth.
- Primer – used to fill pores, smooth out wrinkles and other skin imperfections. Gives the skin a smooth appearance, makes it softer. Calendula in its composition helps cleanse pores, increase elasticity, mattifies and tightens the skin. Can be used for any skin type and as a base for cream.
- The pore care egg contains white and yolk, camellia, olive and aloe extracts. It effectively nourishes, cleanses, moisturizes, whitens, soothes the skin and tightens pores. This product looks like a real egg inside, and you can use it in different ways: separately white or yolk, or you can mix them together and apply morning and evening or once a day.
Korean facial eggs are unique, they contain only natural ingredients and can be used for any skin type.