A purifying clay and charcoal mask that helps draw out impurities and excess oil, leaving oily or blemish-prone skin feeling clean, balanced, and refreshed.
Clarifying Care for Oily & Blemish-Prone Skin
This mineral‑rich powder mask is designed to support oily, combination, or blemish-prone skin that benefits from deeper cleansing and oil control. The balanced blend of bentonite clay, kaolin clay, and bamboo charcoal helps lift away excess oil and surface impurities, leaving skin feeling clearer, smoother, and refreshed.
When activated with water, it forms a smooth, earthy paste that spreads easily and dries to a comfortable, non‑tight finish. As the mask dries, it helps loosen buildup and refine the appearance of pores.
Once rinsed away, skin feels clean, balanced, and lightly renewed — making it an ideal ritual when your complexion feels congested or out of balance.
The fine particles in mineral clays and activated charcoal carry a natural negative charge, which allows them to act like magnets to adsorb (attract and bind), and remove positively charged impurities, excess sebum, and pollutants from the skin. As the mask is rinsed away, these impurities lift off with the clay and charcoal, helping clear surface congestion without harsh scrubbing or stripping the skin.
Each ingredient contributes slightly different cleansing and balancing properties, allowing this blend to deeply refresh oily or blemish-prone skin while remaining gentle enough for regular use.
Bentonite Clay
Derived from volcanic ash, bentonite clay is a star for deep clarification. This highly adsorptive clay helps reduce excess oil and is ideal for oily or congested skin. It is commonly used in face masks to deeply cleanse and clarify oily or blemish-prone complexions.
Kaolin Clay
A softer, more gentle clay, kaolin helps refine the skin’s surface and balance oil without over-drying. It tempers the intensity of bentonite, leaving skin feeling clean and comfortable rather than tight.
Bamboo Charcoal
Bamboo charcoal adds an extra layer of purification, supporting clarity by binding to buildup and helping the skin feel cleaner and more balanced. Its gentle exfoliating action also helps smooth rough surface texture.
Together, these ingredients create a mask that helps reduce surface oil, refine the appearance of pores, and support a calmer, more clarified complexion. The result is a simple, effective ritual that leaves oily or blemish‑prone skin feeling fresh, balanced, and quietly renewed.
Powder masks stay fresh without preservatives because they contain no water — you activate them only when you’re ready to use them. Each application is freshly mixed and easily customized to suit your skin’s needs that day.
Simply blend with water for gentle cleansing, or mix with honey, yogurt, aloe, or facial oils for added nourishment and hydration. Adjust the amount of liquid to create a lighter or creamier texture, depending on what your skin needs in the moment.
Each jar makes about 8–12 masks, depending on how much you use each time.
Whenever your skin feels tired or dull, a quiet masking ritual can help bring back comfort and natural glow.
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The goal is simple: to Harness the Power & Simplicity of Nature® to cleanse, soothe, heal, and protect your skin and hair!
Our unique formulas rely on moisturizing oils and butters, healing botanicals, and pure essential oils. We choose every ingredient with one end-result in mind….the BEST possible natural skin care for YOU!
Bamboo Charcoal
Bentonite Clay
Kaolin Clay
Overall rating: 4.84375 / 5 from 32 reviews.
This activated charcoal face mask is praised for its ability to draw out impurities and cleanse pores, resulting in a clearer complexion. Customers appreciate its smooth, soft feel and effective natural ingredients.
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"I purchased this for my son who has oily skin. I decided to try it once and I have sensitive skin, left on for shorter period of time, not totally dry and I had to re-wash my face afterward because the mask was staining my skin. His skin was not affected this way. Maybe only good for oily skin."
— Trisha R. (3/5)
"This makes the skin on my face feel so smooth and soft! Thank you Chagrin Valley!"
— Kristen A. (5/5)
"Love this. Definitely helps with complexion and smaller pores. It is a little messy when removing. To me, it is odorless."
— Becca (5/5)
"I do not struggle with congestion but I do enjoy still using this mask. Love the pure ingredients and how clean my skin feels afterwards. I put it on about 10min before getting in the shower as it's a bit messy to remove, so I just let the shower do the removing and also again cleanse afterwards to remove any of the dark residue left on the skin from the mask."
— Cheri M. (5/5)
"Please buy the kit for this and all the other masks. I dont care who you are, this is not only by far an amazing product and does what is described, it made me feel beautiful and alive. The process is just just a scoop and a few tablespoons of water, and there were no such thing as mistakes, just happy beautiful remedy."
— Nichole (5/5)
"The charcoal mast is wonderful."
— Katie C. (5/5)
"This stuff smells really bad when you add water, like rotten eggs. I worry about the quality and putting this on my face. Other clays Ive owned do not smell like this. No smell when dry but with water its horrible"
— Tania (2/5)
"I bought this clay mask for the first time and it made a big difference with black heads that are always encapsulated in the corner of my eyes. This along with the bamboo charcoal soap is clearing it up. The mask will discolor your wash cloth so better to remove with your hands and warm water."
— Donna L. (5/5)
"I tried three out of four chagrin valley face masks and this is my favorite. Perfect after shower or facial steam. I noticed decrease in blackheads."
— Elise (5/5)
"Awesome product. Great on skin. Clean ingredients and fast shipping."
— Brandis M. (5/5)
My face likes most of our face masks, including our Adzuki Bean Scrib which I use with yogurt to create a great mask.
But our Activated Charcoal Clay Mask is the one that tones, smoothes, and just makes my facial skin glow.
However, based on all the ingredient research, that is definitely not the clay mask I would suggest for any 68-year-old, mature, face with dry skin. But it works for me!
So, finding the right face masks for your skin may take a bit of trial and error.
That being said, clay masks are quite a versatile product. I have written a number of blogs that can help with your "how to use" technique, recipes as well as an understanding of how clay masks do their magic.
How To Use Clay Face Masks
Clay Facial Mask Recipes & The Science Behind Them
Multi-Masking and Targeted Application For Combination Facial Skin
Most of the time the directions included with a clay mask state, "begin with a clean face," but does that mean you need to actually "wash" your face first?
Whether or not to wash your face before using a facial clay is up for debate and you are likely to find a lot of conflicting information online.
There are those who say you should "absolutely" wash your face in to order remove the surface layer of dirt, oil and makeup.
This surface grime can hinder the ability of the active clay ingredients to get into the pores and do their job.
Some also believe that when you apply a clay mask onto unclean skin, you may be trapping all sorts of dirt, bacteria and other impurities and possibly driving them deeper into the facial pores.
Others believe that washing before applying a clay mask may be too drying for those with dry or sensitive skin types.
After washing pores are open and anything you apply will be more rapidly absorbed which may cause more irritation with sensitive skin. If you think about it, moisturizing is best done immediately after washing for that same reason.
In my opinion, the answer to this question really depends on the type or purpose of the mask you are using and your skin type. For example, if you are using a deep cleansing mask for oily or problem combination skin, a fresh wash with warm water opens your pores which prepares your skin for a deeper cleansing experience.
Basically, the same logic holds true for whether or not to shower before or after a clay mask treatment.
Showering Before: Again this method works well with deep cleansing masks for oily and combination skin. The warm water and steam from the shower open your pores.
Showering After: If you have drier skin, you want to apply the mask before taking a shower. The warm shower will actually his help seal in the moisture.
To be honest, I do not wash my face before applying a clay mask. However, I do not wear make-up or use heavy creams and basically, my face simply gets dirty from normal exposure to everyday dirt and pollutants. I have aging dryish skin and washing before applying the face mask makes my skin feel too dry afterward. I just use the clay mask and then after rinsing, I moisturize.
Now, all that being said, if your skin is oily, your face feels quite dirty or is loaded with make-up you may choose to do a quick wash before applying the clay.
Clay Face Masks can be a versatile addition to any skincare regimen.
While clay powders are very effective when made into a simple paste with water, they can also be mixed with other ingredients for an added benefit or just for fun and experimentation.
There are many ingredients from your kitchen cupboard that can be added to a clay facial mask and each can provide its own possible skin benefits.
However, if you want to take advantage of "the science of clay" then you must understand that the property of clay that allows it to bind with impurities becomes activated by the chemical nature of water.
Understanding the idea that cosmetic clays need to be mixed with "water" to do their "thing," great additions would be hydrosols, teas, or any water-based liquid.
Directions: Simply use the tea or hydrosol in place of the water in your clay mask preparation. As then used as directed.
For a lot more information about adding ingredients to your facial clay mask please read our blog "Clay Facial Mask Recipes & Some Science Behind Them"
Our face has different zones in which the skin can vary in thickness, texture, pore size and the number of oil-producing glands.
Each zone may have very different needs and require individual attention.
So, what happens if you have multiple facial skin issues, like dryness, oily spots, and blemishes?
The answer is Multi-Masking . . .
Multi-masking is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of applying one face mask over your entire face, you apply different masks to different areas of the face in order to treat multiple skincare concerns at the same time.
For more information please read our blog Multi-Masking and Targeted Application For Combination Facial Skin
USDA Organic Certification was created for food production (not the personal care industry) and as a result is based on organic farming and agriculture standards.
The list of allowable non-agricultural ingredients (like clay, salts, mud, etc) is based on raw materials used in farming. Agricultural ingredients have a biological origin and are made up of carbon. Non-agricultural ingredients have a non-biological origin.
For example, ingredients that come from plants and animals are agricultural, whereas salts, clays, baking soda, pumice, and water are non-agricultural.
Since clays like kaolin and bentonite have farming/agricultural uses, they appear on the list. Unfortunately, ingredients like Pumice, Dead Sea Mud, and Bamboo Charcoal are not used in farming or food production and thus do not appear on the list. Sometimes an ingredient, such as Magnesium Hydroxide, appears on the list but can only be under certain circumstances. Magesium hydroxide can only be used as a nutrient supplement for animals.
Products that contain these ingredients like our Sensitive Skin Deodorants, Clay Facial Masks, and Bamboo Charcoal, Loofah Pumice Foot, and Dead Sea Mud soaps, as well as our Mud & Clay and Rosemary Mint Charcoal Shampoo Bars cannot display any organic symbol or even state that they are organic.
Since we are a certified organic company, we must follow the rules of the USDA. Even though these products are made with certified organic ingredients that meet the same rigorous standards as those required for our "Organic" products, we cannot call them "organic." Sadly if you are not a USDA Certified Organic company, you can do whatever you want :-(
For more detailed information, please read our blog, "What Do All of the Organic Labels Mean?"
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