Face Masks For Spotty Skin

Your skin may take on a spotted appearance for several reasons, most notably surface skin damage caused by trauma—acne is a common form of skin trauma—or ultraviolet light damage from the sun. Facial masks, formulated with skin-brightening ingredients, can help. If they're made with the right active ingredients, they can help enhance your complexion and brighten symptoms of photoaging since they're in contact with your skin for an extended period of time.

Aubrey Organics Sea Buckthorn & Cucumber Ester-C Moisturizing Mask

Aubrey Organics offers a facial mask treatment for those wanting 100 percent natural skin care ingredients. Its moisturizing properties make it best for dry to normal skin, reports skin care expert Paula Begoun, who liked its use of "good anti-irritants" to help soothe irritated skin. Vitamin C, which the University of Maryland Medical Center notes is a "potent antioxidant," functions as one of its main active ingredients and can help rejuvenate photoaged skin for a brighter skin tone.

Zia Pumpkin Exfoliating Face Mask

The editors of "Women's Health" magazine gave Zia Natural Skincare's exfoliating face mask top marks. They liked its use of natural fruit enzyme acids, which exfoliate your skin surface and slough off dead skin patches to renew your skin surface. The University of Maryland Medical Center explains that such exfoliating doesn't just help treat spots and poor skin tone, but may also help reduce wrinkles. The mask also contains vitamin E and vitamin A for better skin health.

Aveda Tourmaline Charged Radiance Masque

Aveda's mask is intended to help brighten your complexion and overcome spots and other skin tone problems, thanks to its incorporation of tourmaline, says Begoun. She ranked its performance as exceptional and liked its moisturizing benefits and use of beneficial herbal extracts, emollients and skin-rejuvenating antioxidants like lycopene. Despite its moisturizing qualities, the mask is non-acnegenic and can be used on oily, blemish-prone skin.

Caudalie Paris Vinoperfect Radiance Revealing Mask

Begoun tested Caudalie Paris' skin-brightening mask and gave it her rare "Paula's Pick" award. It's formulated with alpha hydroxy acids, which the University of Maryland Medical Center states is exceptionally good at exfoliating and can help decrease surface damage like spots and fine lines. Begoun also liked the mask's "impressive amount of antioxidant-rich grape seed oil," suggesting that you wear the mask overnight to get the most benefits.