Green Clay - Face

Green clay works wonders on the face: as a beauty mask, it acts in depth to restore your skin's radiance. Thanks to its exceptionally rich composition in minerals and trace elements, this ancestral sedimentary rock has been known for thousands of years for its multiple virtues in the field of pharmacopoeia and cosmetics. Beneficial, ecological, ethical and natural, Argiletz green clay is the essential ingredient for your daily beauty routine.

The benefits of French green clay for the face

Its exceptional mineral content, superior to that of other clays such as white, red or yellow, makes green clay an unstoppable remedy for minor skin imperfections. Its absorbing properties rid the epidermis of toxins and dead cells and free the pores to purify the epidermis in depth. It leaves the skin soft, smooth, fresh and luminous. Completely natural, our green illite clay has always been used in grandmother's remedies to get rid of skin imperfections. It is the essential ingredient if you wish to keep a pretty skin.

Green clay, ideal for normal and oily skin

Highly prized for its absorbent properties, which make it a key ingredient in skin care products for problem skin, our French green clay has absorbing and purifying properties. It is particularly recommended for thick, oily skin prone to imperfections as well as dull and blotchy complexions.

At the same time soft, powerful and remineralizing, the green clay decreases the production of sebum by regulating the action of the sebaceous glands. It tightens the pores, helps fight against the appearance of blackheads and blemishes of all kinds. In addition to its absorbing action, green clay has the particularity of transmitting all its minerals to the skin. The skin is thus nourished, it finds its elasticity and is purified. You will be able to keep a fresh and luminous complexion longer.

How to use green clay to fight against impurities and imperfections of the face?

To take advantage of all its benefits, the ideal is to use green clay as a face mask. The recommended pause time is 10 minutes, remembering to moisten the mask when it dries out, before rinsing thoroughly with clear, warm water. This facial is easy to apply and can be complemented with a moisturizer for added comfort. Because of the powerful detoxifying action of green clay, one application per week is quite sufficient. In order to help you discover this rock with multiple benefits, we have decided to present it in all its forms.

• Green clay in powder form

Green clay is in its purest form and comes in different granulometries. For a green clay face mask, ultra-ventilated green clay (a very fine powder) and surfine green clay (very small grains) are particularly recommended. They have the particularity of melting very quickly for "minute" masks. Their use is simple: just mix them with a little mineral water or floral water, for example organic lavender floral water, and that's it. It is also possible to add other ingredients such as calophylla vegetable oil or ingredients that you find in your kitchen (honey, yogurt, tomato pulp...).

• Green clay paste in a tube

The green clay paste in a tube is a ready-to-use preparation that is practical and easy to carry in a bag or luggage. It is applied directly to the face as a mask, without any prior preparation. Quick and easy to use, the clay paste in tube is as effective as the clay powder.

• Biodegradable and 100% natural and French green clay strips

The Textilit Argiletz mask is the result of an innovative process that consists of preserving and centralizing all the properties of green clay on thin strips of biodegradable vegetable cellulose.

It has been designed to guarantee maximum time saving: moisten the strip, apply it to your face and voilà! Thus, these strips can be applied directly to the face, without any prior preparation. A natural and 100% effective way to take care of your skin.

We also offer green clay in other forms, for use as a poultice, to treat more serious problems such as sunburn. These include green clay pots, fine ground green clay, granulated green clay and crushed clay.

Why choose Argiletz green clay for the face?

Green clay was the very first clay to be marketed by Argiletz. Our passion for this natural clay began long before our creation in 1953, when our founder's mother was treating wounded resistance fighters during the Second World War. After all these years, this treasure of nature has remained our heart clay. Argiletz is the only company to dry its green clay in the sun, and the heat of the sun concentrates the active effects of the minerals contained in the clay. This process is not only artisanal and 100% natural with no pollution for the planet, but it also multiplies the effects on your skin.

We have developed a whole range of effective green clay products that are totally natural and environmentally friendly. Indeed, Argiletz is the first organic product company to have obtained the ISO 9001 standard from AFNOR. This standard allows us to ensure the traceability of our products. Choosing Argiletz means choosing the guarantee of ethical, ecological, reliable and quality products. Argiletz has also obtained the 22716 GMP standard which guarantees good cosmetic manufacturing practices.