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Gentle Mask

Hydrating Recovery

Gentle Mask delivers soothing hydration and immediate tranquility to stressed skin. As medicinal flowers, roots, and mushrooms bloom into a vibrant fuchsia jelly-like emulsion, reactive skin is cooled and comforted, and visible signs of inflammation and puffiness soften. Fresh whole plants abundant in polysaccharides and humectants create a plush, cocooned layer of hydration, restoring suppleness and ease.

KEY ACTIONS

  • Hydrates and soothes stressed, dehydrated skin
  • Visibly calms redness, irritation, and puffiness
  • Restores suppleness, resilience, and barrier strength

SKIN TYPE

Healthy aging for devitalized skin; suitable for most skin types

50ml

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$74.00

Our whole-plant, powdered Treatment Masks are formulated to provide meaningful symptom-specific support to the skin. Gentle Mask provides intense hydration and instant soothing relief to dry, irritated, and inflamed skin.

Formulated with 24 whole plants, this Mask delivers high doses of specific plant compounds, supporting the skin’s innate healing response and the unburdening of inflammation. With nourishment and barrier function restored, the result is deeply hydrated, supple, calm skin.

MARSHMALLOW and ROSE lead this formula, delivering whole-plant hydration that visibly plumps and softens the skin. Marshmallow’s mucilage-rich polysaccharides create the signature jelly-like texture as it steeps, binding lasting moisture deep to the skin. Heirloom Rose Petals, abundant in flavonoids, anthocyanins, and essential vitamins, support connective tissue integrity and enhance a plump, hydrated complexion.

HIBISCUS, CORNFLOWER, and BUDDLEIA provide additional antioxidant-rich phytonutrients to strengthen and tonify stressed tissue. Regionally cultivated Reishi Mushroom boosts surface immunity and hydration further, while providing prebiotic compounds to the microbiome. Powerful anti-inflammatory plants like LICORICE, BAICAL SKULLCAP, and MILKY OAT work to calm and soothe reactivity, creating a foundation for innate healing. Raw and unrefined TAMANU and POMEGRANATE oils are added for their protective and barrier-supportive capabilities.

Microdosed essential oils, including GERMAN CHAMOMILE and HELICHRYSUM, provide cooling comfort and relief, completing a formula designed to leave skin hydrated, calm, and deeply replenished.

SENSORY PROFILE
How it feels: soft, milled botanical powder that blooms into a vibrant, jelly-like emulsion
How it smells: crushed rose petals, deep expansive florals, and earthy roots

PHYTOCHEMISTRY PROFILE
Gentle Mask contains these notable phytonutrients, along with many others:
Polysaccharides and mucilaginous compounds including beta-glucan and galacturonic acid (botanical hyaluronic acid), B vitamins including niacinamide, flavonoids including anthocyanins, apigenin, and catechin, vitamin C, azulenes, bisabolol, ferulic acid, resveratrol, steroidal saponins, betaine, palmitic acid, gallic acid, carotenoids, caffeic acid, zinc, selenium, tannins, potassium, copper, manganese, magnesium, and other trace minerals, essential fatty acids (including omega 3)

USAGE
Scoop 1 teaspoon or less of Gentle Mask into a Mask Bowl and trickle a bit of water in with fingertips. Using approximately twice as much water as Mask, mix into a runny paste. Allow the Mask to rest and steep (like tea) for a few minutes. Allowing the Mask to steep will cause it to thicken into its jelly-like texture. Apply gently to clean, dampened face and neck with the Laurel Skin Mask Brush. Keep the Mask hydrated, which will keep the Mask activated and prevent it from drying on the skin. The longer the Mask is left on, the more frequently it will need to be rehydrated to stay active. Re-hydrate the Mask with a wet Mask Brush, wet fingertips, a mister bottle of water, or steam from a bath or shower. Leave on for 10-30 minutes. Fully rehydrate to loosen the Mask with your fingertips, then remove gently with a warm cloth.

RITUAL
Using a whole-plant powdered mask like ours is a unique experience. Apply before a warm bath or shower so the steam can effortlessly keep the mask hydrated and activated while the body unwinds. As the freshly activated botanicals rest on the skin, the experience is best described as a deep infusion of nourishment. The ritual naturally invites you to pause and receive on a level we rarely allow ourselves. Be still. Let the vibrant nutrients flood your skin with relief and replenishment. The scent of fresh herbs and earthy roots calms and grounds the mind. And when you’re ready to remove, the Mask rinses away easily down the drain.

Use within 12 months of opening and by the recommended use-by date, which is found on the bottom of the jar. Store this product in a cool, dry, and dark place. Keep contents of jar dry and free from moisture.

100% Whole Plant Organic

MARSHMALLOW
This mucilage and polysaccharide-rich root delivers exceptional hydration. Often described as nature’s hyaluronic acid, Marshmallow binds moisture deep into the structural layers of the skin, creating a cooling, cushioning effect. Rich in B vitamins and betaine, it soothes and softens while lending the Mask its signature gelatinous texture as it steeps.

ROSE
Our heirloom Rose petals are grown exclusively for us by a California farm. Naturally abundant in flavonoids, anthocyanins, and Vitamin C, Rose acts as a powerful humectant while providing antioxidant support. It visibly plumps and restores suppleness to the skin.

HELICHRYSUM
Gentle yet potent, this anti-inflammatory flower helps calm visible redness and puffiness. It supports tissue integrity and is deeply transformative for reactive, damaged skin.

POMEGRANATE
A rich, viscous oil naturally high in antioxidants and essential fatty acids. Pomegranate helps replenish lipid-depleted skin and reinforce barrier resilience.

TAMANU
There is no replacement for our deep, cool green Tamanu Oil, a sacred plant medicine that we source directly from an Indigenous community on a small island off the coast of Australia. It is anti-inflammatory and wound healing, supporting the skin’s natural repair processes, and microbiome health.

REISHI
Organically cultivated in the Pacific Northwest, Reishi is rich in hydrating polysaccharides and B vitamins. Known for its affinity for lymphatic support, it helps soften the appearance of puffiness while delivering peptides and amino acids that support healthy skin function.

FULL INGREDIENT LIST: Marshmallow Root°, Rose Petals°, Milky Oats°, Marshmallow Leaves°, Cornflowers°, Hibiscus°, Baical Skullcap Root°, Licorice Root°, Slippery Elm Bark°, Reishi Mushroom°, Self Heal Flowers + Leaves°, Buddleia Flowers°, Yarrow Flowers°, Hawthorn Berries°, Skullcap Leaves°, Tamanu Oil°, Pomegranate Oil°; Essential Oils of Bergamot°, Sandalwood°, German Blue Chamomile°, Rose Centifolia°, White Rose°, Carrot Seed°, Helichrysum°
Ëšorganically grown ingredient

Laurel Skin formulas set a benchmark for high ingredient and formulation standards that the beauty industry would collectively consider unreasonable. Here are a few highlights that set our Gentle Mask apart:

  • Exclusive use of 100% organic, biodynamic, and regeneratively grown plants
  • No pre-milled plants, milled in-house to ensure antioxidant bioavailability
  • No emulsified base – raw, nutrient-dense powder prioritizes skin health over commercial standard
  • No lab-made, synthetic isolates, bioidenticals, or biomimetics – only whole plants
  • Micro-dosed essential oils for immediate phytonutrient support, without overwhelming the skin

    • The abbreviated list above cannot be found elsewhere – our level of care and integrity is proudly unreasonable.

    Essential Oils as Medicine
    There is so much controversy in the industry today over essential oils and whether they should be used in skincare. They are arguably some of the most potent plant medicines herbalists have to work with, yet most herbalists would never recommend the ways they are commonly used today: undiluted, in high concentrations, ingested, and more. Needless to say, essential oils are often misused.

    Our approach could not be more different. We use essential oils with great care and intention, and they are an integral part of the plant medicine that makes our formulas so effective. Contrary to many industry narratives, research suggests that certain essential oils can support the skin barrier, reduce inflammation, or provide antioxidant support. It is not about eliminating essential oils entirely, but about which oils are chosen and how they are used, rather than subscribing to one extreme narrative or another.

    The total percentage of essential oils in our Gentle Mask is 0.25%—yes, one quarter of one percent, which is even less than what can be easily found in Nature. This is considered a microdose and is not formulated at levels that compromise the skin’s barrier or microbiome. In fact, we find that when used thoughtfully and at appropriate dilutions, essential oils can positively support both.

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