I love doing aspirin masks on my face. It is probably the cheapest, most convenient way to kill blemishes, remove redness, and generally give skin a huge overhaul. I usually buy generic, uncoated aspirin, and crush it up into a powder in a bowl with the back of a spoon. Depending, I will either simply use water to make a paste, or I'll mix the crushed up aspirin with honey or plain yogurt for some extra moisturizing. I then apply it using the spoon and leave it until it dries. Wash it off, and that's all there is to it! Doing this once a week or so really wards off pimples, helps with discoloration (especially red marks left by blemishes) and keeps the skin nice and soft. I tell everyone about aspirin masks!

I still have to make up my mind.
I have used dissolvable bayern aspirin with vitamin C. I thought vitamin C would be a nice addition for the skin.
First time I put it after Darphin peeling and let it dry for some 15mins. Skin was soft afterwards and pimples were down. cleansed with water and then decleor tonic and put standerd creams on top. But in two days I got new pimples.
Second attempt: I cleaned my face with Darphin cleansing milk and then did the same thing with aspirin. Let it on for 10mins, cleansed with Decleor tonic and then put Murad's cleansing serum. Again the face was soft after cleansing and a day has passed since and no new pimples.
Similar third and forth time. However, as opposed to some saying it has made pores less visible, this has made my pores more visible definitely.
Will update.
Hint: You may wet the dissoluble aspirin and not wait it to dissolve, but put it on face like that, wetting it from time to time. I find it to be the easiest way to apply. One aspirin is enough (the one I use is 400mg acid and 200mg C vitamin).

I tried this last night and was quite impressed with the results. Although my skin was a little flaky the next day, it noticably reduced my pustules that I have (having the worst skin problems at the moment ugh!). Think I will try using this once a week, my skin definitely felt a lot softer afterwards. I mixed it with honey and left it on for about 20 minutes, it's kinda funny how much it bubbles up!

Temporary fix....thats all.

This works great for me. After reading reviews, it seems most people used it for acne control; however, I use it for the exfoliating effect. I mixed 6 uncoated aspirin with a little warm water until disolved. I also added a little honey. I let it set on my face for about 10 min and then scrubbed before completely rinsing. I swear the lines on my forehead disappeared. 3 days later and they're still gone. Someone had mentioned the aspirin had some kind of acidic effect, so maybe that, combined with the rubbing, sloughed off dead skin. I don't know what it was, but it worked for me.

Hi all! I have used aspirin mask about 12 times in 6 weeks.
I can not deny, it works really well for my skin, excellent for reducing whiteheads too.
BUT the suprise come today, after I had a tooth removed, the first question my dentist asked, if I used blood thinner!
Now that really scared me, and made me think, if it is worth the risk.
I never truly worried about aspirin absorbing through the skin, but now I have no choice, but believe it.
The tooth have been removed 12 hours ago, and the bleeding still has not stopped .I never before had this kind of problem.
Please be careful, and at least don't over do it.

This DIY mask leaves my skin extremely smooth and supple. Granted it didn't do anything for my acne, my skin always feels a lot better after I use this in the shower.

I stumbled across this by accident one day on the 'newest reviews' section of the main page of MUA, and boy, am I glad I did! Aspirin masks are the single most effective thing I have ever done for my skin. I started out making them way too thin (too much water), but I still noticed my skin feeling much smoother the next day, and my bumps looking less angry. Once I figured out how to make it into a thick paste, I put it on for 15-20mins every other night, and my cystic acne was erradicated in about 3 months! My entire jawline used to be continuously covered in painful cysts and usually a few on my cheeks. I maybe get one a month now. I am now doing a series of glycolic peels, so I don't use this as often, but it still does a great job once a week (on my chin only) to ease the breakout I get on the third day post-peel.
The only downside is that it does shed, and I am the worst for using my laptop and blackberry while it's on, and I end up with little white bits in all my keys!

nothing i've used works quite like aspirin. nothing stings like aspirin either, but that's just the unfortunate side effect of a great product. i use this in a variety of ways, and find it dries up my acne (though it does NOT help with redness, and seems to make it much worse). sometimes i will mix the aspirin powder with honey, and apply that all over my face and let it sit for an hour or so. the honey prevents it from being painful, and also helps the aspirin stay on, as it normally flakes off. another thing i do is mix aspirin powder with a clay based mask. and sometimes when i'm really desperate (lately every day), i'll apply straight aspirin powder as a spot treatment. i could never apply this all over my face, it would be too painful. aspirin causes the top layer of your skin to shed, similar to a peel. i have sensitive skin, but if i moisturize and use honey, it isn't that bad. i would do this early in the day, not right before bed because if you do, you run the risk of waking up with a painful red face, which can be a pain to cover up for work or school. give your skin time to rest afterwards.

Tried this for the first time last night, and I feel like the giddy fool proclaiming love on a first date.
Went to bed with half a dozen small spots on my face from hormonal imbalance and lack of sleep, woke up to skin so smooth and even that I looked in the mirror and forgot I hadn't put any makeup on.
Maybe it's too early to profess my love; maybe it's a one-hit-wonder. But for now, I'm sold.

I can't believe I've never reviewed this. I've been using aspirin mask for years on my face. It's a singular experience. No skin treatment has ever performed as well for me as aspirin mask.

I'll let the prior reviews explain how well it works and how to use it, but I wanted to add my "new" use for it: cuticle lacerations and redness. I had a little cut from a paper clip on my cuticle and it was red, swollen and painful. One 10-minute application of aspirin mask later on the offending spot, and it was no longer swollen, no longer painful, and normally-colored.

Try it if you have a painful boo-boo on your cuticle. Highly recommended for this purpose! (I bet it would be helpful with exfolation of cuticle skin, too, but I won't speak to that as I have not used it for that purpose. Yet.)

I've been having really abnormal and bad acne since getting my IUD inserted about a year ago, and its been driving me nuts since my face is not acne prone. Recently, I bought a cheap facewash and it tore.my.skin.up. I've been breaking out really bad the last few weeks, but with is have also been dealing with red spots all over, either where a pimple had left or was getting ready to start. I've been @ my wits end till I came across this aspririn regimine, so I got everything together and got this lil councoction going...I'm impressed! I start with 3 aspirin and drop about 3-4 drops of water onto each one individually (adding too much water will make it too runny...), add about 3/4 tsp honey andabout 3/4 tsp olive oil...maybe jojoba oil if I have some to use. Mix it up till I get a paste, slap in on my clean face and let it sit for about 20 min and wash it off. My face is always so soft, glowing and just clean feeling. It calms the redness in my skin and helps to control my oil slicks. I love using this recipe!

PROS:
- Cheap
- Homemade and easy
- Can be good for body acne
CONS:
- Harsh
- Granules very, very messy and its not like it will form into a paste or a gel so it drips everywhere
- Didnt work for me
In the end i usually stopped using my aspirins as a face mask and used them on my chest and back acne. That feels quite good and refreshing but as for the face, it didnt work for me.

I only do this mask with honey. It is REALLY good at exfoliating. It does dry you out some (like a lot of masks) but with the honey it is antibacterial AND anti inflammatory. I think it's a wonderful mask and definitely worth trying. I also do just honey masks, which I love because the honey fights bacteria and attracts moisture.

Aspirin masks make my skin so soft! The one downside is that I can only do one about two times per week at the most, because they're a little too harsh for daily use on my sensitive skin.

Makes my skin extremely irritated and bumpy. No es bueno.

This mask reduces inflammation, and through its Salicylic acid constituent, causes the skin to shed a layer i.e. chemical exfoliation. Both of these things are advantageous to acne treatment. However, I would suggest two things in order to improve its performance: 1) Mix with both water and aloe vera gel in order to reduce irritation. 2) Do not overuse. If you have sensitive skin, do not use this more than once in a day. It WILL make things worse. I used it around my mouth 3 times in a day and it cause me to have little cracks in my skin. It took over a week to heal. Stupid mistake.

This is by far my HG facial product. I take 8 uncoated aspirin, put them in a little bowl, drop 1-2 drops of water (with a dropper) onto each pill. Then crushing the wet pills in the process, make a paste to which I then add half a teaspoon of raw organic honey, the real good stuff. I also will add about one drop of tea tree oil. I mix this all together until I have a good paste. Don't want it too runny. I apply this all over a clean face and neck. I usually let this set on my face for 30 plus minutes. After time, I rub it into my face to let the exfoliation happen then I wash it off. Baby smooth skin with a certain glow. Amazing. When I take the time to do this at least 3 times a week, my skin is amazingly clear and supple with minimized pores and "that glow". Only problem is a user problem..I usually don't have the time to do this 3 times a week. But that is only my fault. Even doing this once a week makes a difference.

I use clover honey and uncoated aspirin mask..and it worked wonder!
I had very bad cystic acne, my face was inflammed in redness...after two aspirin masks...the redness was gone..and the acnes were reduced significantly!
This mask is a great exfoiliant..it smooth out the dead skins and help on acne scars (not overnight)..
Best of all...it's sooo cheap! Highly recommend for any skin type!

It took me awhile to find uncoated aspirin but I finally found walgreens brand. Whenever I have a really bad pimple I always apply this and it cuts the healing time in half. Also it makes an AMAZING scrub and keeps pimples at bay