Vital Spring Hydration Mask

Description

Ursa Major’s five-minute hydration mask, the counterpart to the exfoliating Flash Mask. A cool cream you spread on and wipe off with a damp washcloth; no sheet, no twenty-minute wait.

Key ingredients: sodium hyaluronate, flaxseed extract, summer snowflake bulb extract, split gill mushroom, elfdock (inula) flower, and beech seed extract, with organic aloe, turmeric root, and holy basil further down. The scent is cool and green: fir, cypress, ginger, and lavender, from essential oils.

How to use it: a light layer on clean skin for five to ten minutes, then remove with a damp washcloth. Two or three times a week, morning or night. Avoid the eye area. Because it contains essential oils, the brand suggests a patch test if you’re sensitive to fragrance.

50 mL / 1.69 fl oz. Glass jar; the jar and carton recycle curbside, and the cap goes to a specialty recycler.

Ursa Major is a Vermont skincare company, a certified B Corp, Leaping Bunny certified, and certified plastic negative. Nothing in the line uses sulfates, parabens, or synthetic fragrance; the scents come from plant oils and extracts.