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The Newest Toner Mask Hack to Get You Through Winter
As winter approaches, the need to keep our skin hydrated and happy grows more crucial than ever. If your usual skincare regime feels lacking on extra dry days, you might want to hear about the new “toner-and-cream mask” method, which is creating a buzz in the Asian beauty scene.
What’s “Toner-Cream Mask”?
If you’re a K-beauty guru, you'll have heard of toner masking, which is to leave a toner-soaked cotton pad on your face for a few minutes like a mask sheet. A toner-cream mask isn’t too far from that – just with an extra layer of cream for additional hydration and repair. It has a similar effect to the way a sheet mask helps seal the essence within your skin, supplying a quick dose of moisture while preventing evaporation.
Benefits of Toner-Cream Mask: Instant Hydration / Moisture Boost / Enhanced Absorption / Quick Skin Recovery
Toner-Cream Mask Step 1: Prep Your Skin with a Hydrating Serum
Before you go about the masking, start with a hydrating serum (hyaluronic acid or otherwise) to improve your skin’s absorbing and moisture-retaining abilities.
A booster ampoule used right after facewash. 90% of the ampoule’s watery non-sticky formula comprises Centella Asiatica and hyaluronic acid blended in an optimum ratio. Feel your skin soak up the moisturizing additives like a sponge, instantly hydrated and relieved, and your natural barrier strengthened with each use.
Hydrating Serum Recommendation #2: COSRX The Hyaluronic Acid 3 Serum
Featuring a high-concentration concoction of 3% hyaluronic acid, this serum moisturizes, plumps, soothes and strengthens your skin’s moisture barrier. Leaves your skin full and dewy.
This birch serum moisturizes and locks water in your skin in 3 steps: it opens up your skin’s moisture pathways with glyceryl glucoside, injects moisture and boosts retention with birch sap, then forms a moisture-locking barrier with hyaluronic acid to prevent water loss.
Don’t let this serum’s lightweight texture fool you – it’s enriched with a whopping 14 kinds of hyaluronic acid, boasting ultra-low molecular weights as small as 329Da to supply lasting hydration and keep skin at 101.81% moisture level for 24 hours after use.
Refreshing and quick to absorb, BIODANCE’s hydrating serum contains low-molecular panthenol, hyaluronic acid and allantoin, plumping your skin cells with moisture to boost skin health.
Toner-Cream Mask Step 2: Toner Mask
Wet some cotton pads with your favourite toner and place them on areas of your face that require topical care, like your cheeks, forehead or chin. Leave on for several minutes like you would with a sheet mask.
With a nourishing blend of 72.6% black bee propolis extract and 10% honey extract, this COSRX toner delivers rich nutrients to your skin and improves hydration while alleviating discomfort and sensitivity-induced redness.
Fermented black rice is a skincare powerhouse rich in antioxidants. This black rice toner works with bamboo shoot bark extract to recharge your skin, replenish elasticity and pave your way to healthy, firm and glowing skin.
Ulleungdo Island natural deep seawater, the main ingredient of this toner, boosts moisture levels while keeping your skin’s water-oil level balanced with patented technology. Also soothes with panthenol and allantoin to keep your skin hydrated and your natural barrier healthy.
Made with organic green tea extract produced in Boseong, Korea, which calms skin trouble and anti-oxidizes. Hyaluronic acids of three different molecular sizes work in tandem to hydrate and strengthen your barrier.
Ginseng is a cherished and valuable herb in Korean medicinal history, its natural power revitalizing the skin with endless nourishment. Combined with niacinamide, a vitamin B3 derivative, Beauty of Joseon’s ginseng toner improves your skin’s defense against external stressors while maintaining a healthy water-oil balance.
Toner-Cream Mask Step 3: Top it Off with a Cream
On the outer side of the cotton pad, evenly spread a layer of cream. This helps trap the toner on the other side for it to fully penetrate your skin, further enhancing hydration.
This firming and restoring cream repairs damage and reinforces your barrier with a nourishing formula similar to the skin’s natural composition. Macadamia Seed Oil and Shea Butter offer abundant moisture without clogging pores, while other skin-friendly additives provide antioxidant and anti-aging benefits.
A multi-functional cream providing comprehensive care with 92% snail mucin. The rich yet light gel formula moisturizes, soothes and improves skin elasticity all at once.
This soft daily-use cream comes in a unique half-gel half-cream pudding-like consistency. With a low-oil high-moisture content, it keeps skin deeply moisturized but leaves no greasiness, perfect for normal to oily skin types.
The 10 layers of hyaluronic acids and 5 layers of ceramides in this nourishing moisturizer are blended into a feather-light but rich cream texture that is instantly absorbed, hydrating inside and out.
Indulgent and luxurious, this cream is imbued with high-quality, high-grade and high-concentration ingredients of 10ppm EGF and 48% black truffle extract. Revitalizing dry, tired skin, it combats wrinkles and offers beauty salon-grade care at an affordable price.
Toner-Cream Mask Step 4: Turn Over for Cream Mask
After 5 minutes, turn over the cotton pad with the creamed side on your skin and leave on for another 5 minutes. If this step leaves residual cream on your face, simply massage to spread it out evenly and wait for it to absorb.