A clay mask for the T-zone that shines by noon. Dead Sea mud, kaolin and charcoal lift the excess oil; shea, argan and jojoba stay behind so your skin feels clean, not stripped. A light chill from a trace of menthol in the first minute, a soft lavender finish, and ten minutes once or twice a week.

Shine at the T-zone by lunchtime is not a skin type. It is what a forehead does when nothing has asked it to stop.

This mask asks. Dead Sea mud sits fourth on the ingredient list, with kaolin and a charcoal powder behind it: three absorbers that pull oil and surface grime up out of the skin while the mask sets. What makes it a balance mask is what is packed around the absorbers. Shea butter, argan and jojoba oils and allantoin ride in the same cream, so the mask dries to a matte finish and then rinses away without taking the comfortable layer of your skin with it. The usual clay-mask ending, the face that feels two sizes too small, does not happen here.

The texture is a smooth, creamy clay. Spread it thin and you will feel a cool prickle for the first minute: that is a trace of menthol, and it fades as the mask firms. Lavender oil gives the scent, soft and close.

It is built for the places that produce the most oil: the T-zone, and on the body the back, the chest and the shoulders, where a face mask usually never goes. Ten minutes, lukewarm water, then your moisturizer. Once a week for most skin, twice for skin that shines by noon.

Dead Sea mud carries 26 Dead Sea minerals. That is the difference between this mud and the clay in a drugstore mask, and it is the reason the mask has a place in a routine that already has a cleanser. 230 ml / 7.67 oz. Face and body.

Use it on Sunday night and count how long the forehead stays matte on Monday.