I mentioned this once on Formspring and got a deluge of questions asking me over and over again for the recipe ._____.
So to make it easier for everyone, I’m blogging it!
How to make your own egg white mask.
Mommy Ooi used to do this for me when I was a mere teenager, battling the rage of puberty. It’s a recipe passed down from her mother, and god knows where my poh poh got it from. Maybe from her mother too wtf.
It works as an extraction method – to clear your face of blackheads, whiteheads and whatever clogged pores. Strength-wise, maybe it’s not as potent as say a commercially manufactured pore pack, or a facial, but it’s cheap (costs the same as an egg wtf), relatively easy to do, and natural so it definitely won’t harm your skin.
Anyway I doubt we’re the only people in the world who do this mask, but so far I haven’t met anyone else who does. So lemme know if you do it too ok!
Step 1: get an egg. and a small saucer. The kind you put soya sauce in is perfect. Make sure the saucer is clean!
Step 2: Hold the egg tight and using a spoon, tap the egg firmly on its pointy end to crack a small hole in it.
Step 3: Like so. This is Mumsy Ooi’s hand btw. You want only a small hole because we only need the egg white and not the yolk.
Step 4: Carefully pour out the egg white into the saucer, leaving the yolk inside the shell. Yolk is of no use to you here. Unless you’re hungry wtf.
Step 5: Now get ready your cotton pads. Make sure they’re the soft fluffy kind, not the expensive ones which are seamed off around the edges.
Step 6: This is the tricky part. Carefully separate the cotton pad into at least 4 sheer pieces. Make sure the pieces are as even as you can get them. I find 4 is just nice cos the pieces are thin enough without breaking off.
Important: you have to make sure the pieces are thin enough. Too thick and they won’t stick on your face well.
Step 7: Dip your fingers into the egg white and smear them on your face, area by area.
Step 8: place a cotton piece on top of the egg white.
Step 9: Dab more egg white on top of the cotton until it’s full soaked and see through.
Step 10: Repeat for all over your face. Make sure you don’t put over your eyebrows ok! I haven’t done this mask in a long time and I forgot and put it over the edges my eyebrows WTF.
I had a teary time later I can assure you wtf.
If some pieces overlap, just tear them off rather than folding them in or laying them over each other. If you lay them over, they get too thick and may not work as well.
Step 11: Wait until the mask is dry.
Step 12: And peel it off! Peel it off from your chin/jaw upwards so you don’t pull your skin down and cause sagging
Then joy of joy, time to look at the whiteheads and sebum and rubbish collected on the cotton!
I didn’t take a picture because my iphone cannot take the ugliness of it. No la my phone cannot take it full stop not visible on phone camera.
Then rinse your face with water and pat dry and continue your usual skincare routine!
P/S: actually took this picture to compare if my face got smaller. It did!!!!!!! Super happy! Bring it on, wedding photographers!!!
Comments (35)
So easy and it has good results! Cheap too. The Asian in me is loving it already.
Aud!! Actually i does that before and i’m like 17! hahaha my aunt used to help us do it. But we didn’t use the cotton pad we got the dried face mask instead. It’s quite effective in removing black heads! 😀
My mum used to do it for me too (like a decade ago)! But I didn’t use cotton pads tho.
We left the egg white air dry for face firming effect 🙂
Super thnks for sharing!!
Definitely useful after baking….always recipes call for egg yolk and not egg whites
Wah I didn’t know can use cotton pads haha my mum taught me to just smear all over face without the cotton pads. Then just rinse of and face becomes super smooth haha!
I use white eff mask too! Except I mix it with a little bit of tapioca flour. But I soak it using facial tissue instead. Really works wan this recipe. 😀
THIS IS REALLY COOL!!!
LOVE!! Going to try this at home tonight.
Our family does it too 😀 We also have the 2)rice flour, 3)lemon and 4)plain egg white version.
And you can make a mask out of egg yolk too. Egg white for tightening, egg yolk for moisturising. In fact you can do both sequentially; first the white, then the yolk. Yolk is especially good for dry skin. Or you can do a hair mask with the yolk; add olive oil (or hair pack/conditioner) to the yolk.
Whoa! I always made an egg white mask as well, but never thought of using cotton pads! I always used a brush to smear it all over my face and waited for it to dry! Your method seems to be more effective.
You can actually use the yolk as a mask as well though…
Thanks for sharing! I’m gonna try it out myself for blackheads!
It looks like your jawline got narrower (but wtf ur face was so slim and small already)…is the botox finally taking effect!! Looking forward to your before/after pics! 🙂
i do this mask too. mami taught me too!
but before i apply the egg white, i’ll splash my face with warm water to open up the pores.
i swear you get more blackheads collected!
OMG! I’m going to buy eggs today! Thanks for sharing!
I’m definitely going to do this from now on! I used to use those Biore nose strips, but then I saw a girl on TV rip off another girl’s nose strip and her nose got red and puffy so now I’m terrified of them O_O.I bet that shit really hurts *flinch
Owh yeah! I wanna make homemade egg white mask d.. XD
the part about eyebrows.. does that mean it can be used as waxing strips also?
*raises both arms up to show you her hairy pits wtf
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oh! need to try this one…no need to spend so much for facial session ledi
Seen on youtube 🙂 But they use tissue paper~ The yolk can be used as a mask moisturizer
Michelle Phan did this! she did a video on it few years back.. all she used were her hands and egg tho.. she didnt use the cotton pads 🙂
I’ve heard of this but never tried because using egg white as mask doesn’t sound very… appealing LOL
I do this too, but i add some tepung ubi kayu. the kanji hold the cotton pad so strong on my skin, not just white/black heads stick on the cottan pad, my thin mustache too. but it’s syok! 😀
Wow! amazing!!!
and your face definitely smaller!!!!
happy happy happyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
super love!!!!
I do this too! 😀
you look like sth that will appear in MIB III hahahaha
I used to have egg white mask as well! just not with the cotton pads.
and I used the yolk to wash my hair. It feels damn gross with the smell but after that, the hair feels damn soft!
Im gonna try it out with cotton pad now. thanks! You really look like ayumi hamasaki! pretty!
yes i do that too! to make it more efficient, use watson’s soft facial puff, it’s not cotton pads but something thinner,and you dont need to separate the cottons,just need to cut en into shapes, easy and convenient!
Thanks for sharing! I think I will try this one of these days =)
doesn’t the smell of raw egg make you want to gag though? idk. maybe i just have really bad gag reflex control. good sharing though.
i used to do one egg white mask for firming then a yolk mask after (the egg yolk is good for scars) but can’t wait to try your way 🙂
I use this method to remove blackheads too!! But I didnt know can use for the whole face wtf maybe I should try on my forehead to remove pimples. (:
Noo your family is not the only one, my mom started doing this for me since my teen years too 😀 Am I weird for being fascinated by the stuff that comes out after the cotton is dry? Hahaha. But my mom put the egg white in the fridge to overnight first one wo duno why :/ & she cuts the cotton exactly the shape of my nose only stick! Omg I’m so luo so -_-
Seems effective. I’m going to try it!Thanks sharing:)
I did this too, very exciting seeing all those blackhead standing on the cotton pads 😛
lol haha. WTF. You’re funny. I’m going to try your mommy Ooi tips. Thanks.