Are chemical-filled, exfoliating, gritty skincare your go-to? 

Gritty skincare can really hurt your skin, especially when you have to scrub and rub by the end! They claim to add a glow to your skin and make it look clearer, cleanse it and unclog pores. Plus, quite a few of them contain natural ingredients like walnuts or almond and the like, which carry a myriad of benefits for the skin, but what about the damage? What about the rigorous scrubbing? What about the thinning of the skin? This is one of the things to never use for skin CARE!  

You’ll be pleased to know that unlike those gritty skincare, Chandaluna Ayurvedic Face Mask is a very smooth powder-to-paste formulation consisting of finely ground Ayurvedic ingredients such as Nutgrass, Indian Blue Water Lily, Plum, Sandalwood, Indian Barberry and Large Leaf Beauty Berry - all 100% natural and superfoods for your skin!  

These ingredients, when combined with plain water, floral water, milk, yogurt or honey, get activated and form a smooth-as-silk paste that can be applied to the skin directly. This paste, although appears and feels extremely soft on the skin, also acts as a physical exfoliator and acts tough on the appearance of dullness, dryness and signs of aging.  

What’s more interesting is after the paste is just about to dry fully, splash water over your wash. You’ll see that the dried paste melts off your face like a candy. No need to scrub or buff rigorously, or put your face through agony.  

Now, if you are someone who might have come across those colorful teeny-weeny particles in your face mask/face scrub/face wash/face polish/exfoliator that helps cleanse your skin better, it’s important you read this further.

Those tiny particles are called microbeads. Sounds cute, ain’t it?

Well, not so much. Those are plastic particles, 5 millimeters or even smaller in size, and are non-biodegradable in nature (because, plastic). When you use beauty products with microbeads in them and later wash it off, these go into the drain. Because they are too tiny to be filtered, they end up settling into the marine sediment. Marine inhabitants ingest these particles, which then goes further down the food chain

Unlike that, an Ayurvedic face mask like Chandaluna, made with pure herbs does what an abrasive face mask or mud would do, but without scraping the layers off your skin! It smoothly and gently yet very potently physically exfoliates and gives it the luxurious beauty treatment it requires, without causing any harm to you or the environment.

So, is Sheet Mask-ing the answer? 

While sheet masks are a recent discovery in the skincare category known for their relaxing and moisturizing properties, there have been studies that revealed the cons of using a sheet mask.

First and foremost, are sheet masks environment-friendly? The ‘sheet’ in the face mask is usually made up of either paper or cotton. But have you paused to think what happens to the sheet when trashed? What happens to its cover? Are we eventually causing our skin and the environment more harm than good?

To begin with, one sheet mask pack is a lot of waste—it has the outer pouch, the mask and sometimes an extra thin plastic sheet attached to the mask—everything goes into the dustbin. Also, not all of these are recyclable or reusable.

Talking about the mask itself, though the sheet is made of cotton or fiber which can be considered environment-friendly, the beauty ingredients in it can have some plastic content. So, your mask on its own can be decomposable but it’s dependent on what ingredient it is soaked in. If the ingredients are non-organic and non-biodegradable, composting the mask might not be possible. Additionally, if the mask is made of a synthetic material, it directly goes in garbage.

Say we keep aside the damage caused to the environment for a minute – what are we really doing to our skin? 

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Within these masks, there is a wide range available with differing qualities. The ‘liquid’ part of these masks contains active ingredients such as hyaluronic acid or glycerin. By now we know that while Hyaluronic acid deeply moisturizes, it also depletes your skin’s ability to naturally moisturize itself and speeds up the process of aging. But even more so, some masks contain alcohol which is bad for the skin. Some others contain a variety of fragrance allergens that can increase your skin’s sensitivity.

Compared to sheet masks, Ayurvedic powdered face masks are a relief for your skin. They contain only 100% natural ingredients ground into a fine powder. These natural ingredients are known for in Ayurveda for their ability to impart a zen-like, calm and cooling glow to your tired skin to prep it up from the inside-out to seize the long day ahead.

And unlike a sheet mask with ALREADY activated ingredients, an Ayurvedic Lepa gets activated only when mixed with either plain water or floral water, or milk or honey, thus giving you the fresh-est, well-grounded experience with its refreshing catalogue of natural ingredients and its earthy aroma!

Chandaluna comes in a recyclable box that can also be used as your next vanity box to store all your must-haves in one place!  

How does Chandaluna compare to other Ayurvedic powder-based face masks/Lepas? 

They say, everything that come in little sachets of happiness are worth all the excitement.

Chandaluna, like a true heart warmer, comes filled in little pink-pearl-colored sachets with a beautiful hand-drawn artwork on it, encased in a decadent box.

Each box contains 15 sachets of Chandaluna’s powder-to-paste formulation.

These one-time-use, convenient sachets prevent the formulation from contamination and exposure to heat, sunlight, moisture, dirt, dust or any potential elements that harm your skin.

Unlike Chandaluna, most of the Ayurvedic Lepas/Face Masks in the market come in jars or bottles, thus exposing the formulation to constant opening and closing, and dust and moisture gathering.

Additionally, Chandaluna’s powder-to-paste Face Mask contains some lesser-known yet fairly robust Ayurvedic ingredients that are known to have skin-benefitting, glow-boosting, cooling and calming effects.

This formulation is thoroughly researched by our in-house Ayurvedic experts for the synergy between its thriving Ayurvedic ingredients.

Unlike other Ayurvedic Face Masks in the market, Chandaluna is not just a random blend of common natural ingredients thrown in together.