19 Best Face Masks for Every Skin Type in 2022

This creamy face mask is pretty much a miracle for your dry, sensitive skin. Why? It contains skin barrier-strengthening ceramides and healing cica extract—plus, it calms any inflammation and redness with soothing colloidal oatmeal extract. You can use it as a 20-minute mask for a quick hit of hydration, or leave it on overnight for deeper skin nourishment.

Treat your skin while you sleep and slather on this overnight face mask before bed. It’s packed with humectants, antioxidants (like niacinamide), and vitamin F to give the appearance of firmer, plumper, and smoother skin come morning. “This is an excellent choice if you are looking to nourish and hydrate your while also improving tone and texture,” says Dr. Alexis.

Licensed esthetician Alli Davis is a big fan of this charcoal face mask from Origins for treating clogged pores and breakouts. “The charcoal helps detox and minimize the look of large pores, leaving your skin clean and smooth,” says Davis. “It can even be used as a spot treatment for stubborn blemishes too.”

This face mask is made with all-natural and organic skincare ingredients, making it a great choice for green beauty lovers. The hypoallergenic, fragrance-free formula is made with lactic acid and soothing plant extracts to gently smooth skin texture, balance your skin’s microbiome, and restore its protective barrier too.

This face mask contains two types of AHAs—glycolic acid and mandelic acid—to resurface skin and fade the appearance of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (aka the dark marks and scars that linger post-breakout. It’s even got niacinamide, which also helps fade spots in addition to reducing excess sebum and inflammation.

“I am a massive fan of the Avene Soothing Sheet Mask,” says Dr, Alexis. “It’s infused with thermal spring water to help repair the skin barrier and deeply soothe sensitive skin.” Pop it on clean, dry skin and leave it on for up to 10 minutes to visibly reduce inflammation and irritation.

This restorative face mask from iconic French skincare brand Biologique Recherche (you’ve prob heard of their hero product P50) will be your BFF if you have a sun burn or for times when you’ve over done it with strong actives. “It is particularly good at resetting skin that has overdosed on acids and retinols,” says Hand. “It has healing benefits that are inspired by the protective coating that forms over a baby’s skin in utero.” The more you know…

Made in collaboration with actress and clean beauty lover Kate Hudson, this powder face mask will instantly upgrade your DIY skincare game. Once you mix this antioxidant-infused powder with water, it turns into a glow-boosting face mask. It’s an ideal weekly treatment for anyone with dull, lackluster skin.

This is licensed esthetician Elizabeth Grace Hand’s go-to overnight face mask for brightening and illuminating skin. “It’s made with pineapple extract to gently slough off dead skin cells, enabling the kakadu plum—the fruit extract contains nature’s highest concentration of vitamin c—to penetrate more effectively.”

This mask is an excellent choice for anyone experiencing oily skin, clogged pores, and breakouts, says Dr. Alexis. “It’s made with 2 percent salicylic acid and kaolin clay to remove excess oil and build-up from pores.” Apply it to a clean, dry face twice a week for clearer, smoother skin.

Traveling? Tired? Hungover? This face mask can majorly help. It contains antioxidant-rich vitamin C to breathe life into your skin and brighten up it’s tone, along with detoxifying clays to purify pores. The result? Skin that’s soft, smooth, and glowing.

Take a few minutes out of your week to reset your skin with this multitasking mask from Klur from esthetician and product formulator Lesley Thornton. It decongests and purifies skin while simultaneously nourishing and soothing with a blend of panthenol and calendula and cacao extracts.

This creamy clay mask—it’s made with Japanese konjac and volcanic ask plus clay from Okinawa—is the closest thing to a pore eraser I’ve yet to try. It absorbs gunk and build-up, minimizes the appearance of large pores, and smooths rough, uneven texture…all without sucking precious moisture from your skin.

This face mask for acne-prone skin reduces breakouts (and prevents new ones from creeping up) with a potent combo of zinc, niacinamide, sulfur, tea tree, and bentonite clay. Use it once or twice a week as an allover mask, or on individual breakouts as a spot treatment.

This water-based sheet mask might (it comes in a pack of six) look like others you’ve tried, except this one packs half a bottle of hydrating serum (plus hyaluronic acid and pomegranate extract) in one mask. Yes, you read that correctly: Half. A. Bottle. So if your skin is in dire need of hydration, this face mask from the drugstore skincare brand is for you.

If you are short on time but still want to give your skin to a lil TLC with a face mask, try this fast-acting formula from Dior. It’s full of potent AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids, like glycolic acid), so you only need to keep it on your face for one minute to experience all the exfoliating benefits.

I’m obsessed with this exfoliating face mask from facialist Renée Rouleau. It contains five acids—salicylic, mandelic, lactic, tartaric, and malic—which all work together to dissolve the glue that holds together your pore-clogging and skin-dulling dead skin cells. I use it twice a week to keep breakouts, hyperpigmentation, and any bumps or rough patches on my face in check.

I know this face mask is $$$$, but it’s truly the closest thing to hitting the reset button on your skin you can find. The creamy formula is loaded with AHAs and papaya extract to slough off dead skin cells, smooth fine lines and wrinkles and ~energize~ your skin, making it look brighter and glowier in under 10 minutes.

If you deal with rosacea on the regular, this botanical-based face mask will immediately calm redness and irritation thanks to its soothing blend of plant-extracts (like cucumber, thyme, and olive extract) for an instant cooling effect.