How to Make Flaxseed Gel (Plus 4 Masks to Try)

Flaxseed gel is super moisturizing, tightening, and leaves skin feeling smooth and soft. Itā€™s phenomenal for hair too, especially curls. Oh you will love it for soft, gorgeous, happy curls!

Hereā€™s how to make flaxseed gel plus Iā€™ve added a couple DIY mask recipes to try too!

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What you need to make the gel

You only need 2 ingredients: 1 teaspoon of flaxseeds (get them on Amazon) and 1 cup of water. This recipe yields about 1 tablespoon of the gel. Scale up for more.

As for equipment, a saucepan, spoon, strainer or cheese cloth and a container to keep the gel are all you need. Simple, basic things.

How to make flaxseed gel

Add the flaxseeds and water to the saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally. After 25 minutes, youā€™ll have thick flaxseed gel. Remove from the heat, allow to cool, before straining and adding to the container.

How to Make Flaxseed Gel

Hereā€™s a great video pin showing you how to make the gel.

Hereā€™s a quick recipe card:

Flaxseed Gel with Flaxseed and strainer
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Flaxseed Gel Recipe

This simple flaxseed gel recipe is perfect if you need to make and use flaxseed gel for a single mask.
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Course: Beauty Treatment
Keyword: flaxseed gel
Servings: 1 tbsp
Author: Ros

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp flaxseeds
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • Add the flaxseeds and water to saucepan on medium heat.
  • Stir often to prevent the seeds from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
  • Once it starts boiling, stir occasionally until you notice a thick, gel-like string falling from your spoon.
  • After 20 minutes, the gel will start forming but will be runny.
  • 5 minutes more, the gel will be thick enough for these masks.
  • If you want even thicker gel, leave it for a minute or two more.
  • Turn off the heat. Allow to cool
  • Strain and add to a container. Use immediately or store in the fridge.

Important tips for making the gel

Flaxseed gel oxidizes quickly so if you are making a large batch, refrigerate it once it has cooled down. It will last in the fridge for 1 to 2 weeks.

I recommend making smaller batches for use in face masks so the gel remains good.

The gel will develop a brown color after boiling for more than 20 minutes. If you prefer a thick, clear gel, then remove the saucepan from the heat at 20 minutes and leave to cool and thicken on its own. It will be transparent.

You donā€™t have to discard the seeds after straining. You can instead grind them and add them to your smoothies, shakes, and overnight oats. You can also add the ground up seeds to the gel for extra exfoliation.

You can also use ground flaxseed to make the gel. But I have only tried it with the whole seeds. They work perfectly for me.

Flaxseed gel mask ideas

With ground flaxseeds

This mask is super simple. Just add ground flaxseeds to your flaxseed gel.

Apply liberal amounts to your face, neck and hands and gently rub it in. The bits will exfoliate your skin so beautifully and remove dry, dead, sad skin. Let the gel dry for ten minutes before washing off.

Expect tight, toned, gently-exfoliated, glowing skin. Yes please!

This mask can be a little drying so if you want more moisturized skin, add a half teaspoon of jojoba oil (or any other non-comedogenic oil).

Flaxseed gel mask

With aloe vera gel

Mix one part flaxseed gel and one part aloe vera gel together (get aloe vera on Amazon). Patch test the mix before applying it to your face for a wonderful skin tightening mask that will shrink your pores and make you glow.

You should know though, very sensitive skin dislike raw aloe vera gel. So use with caution if you have such sensitivities.

With Vitamin E oil

I use three 400 I.U. Vitamin E capsules to the tablespoon of flaxseed gel. The mix becomes a little more runny, but not by much.

This mask is amazing for my dry skin. But just as amazing for my hair. And for curls!!! It gives a lot of volume to hair, while keeping it soft and moisturized.

The mix that I make is all you need for a wash and go or for a simple hair mask. It does dry a little crunchy though, so you can wash it out or add a little more oil to your hair.

Get the Vitamin E capsules on Amazon.

With tamanu oil (and essential oils)

Tamanu oil is one of my favorite oils for skin. More than coconut oil! Coconut oil dries out my skin way too much. But tamanu keeps my skin moisturized and amazingly soft.

Tamanu also has a ton of benefits. Itā€™s anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-acne, anti-fungal and repellent. Tamanu oil also repairs skin and heals cuts faster. Yes please!

I also like to add tea tree essential oil. It is one of those all-round essential oils thatā€™s anti- everything. Itā€™s also great for acne, dandruff and more.

When mixed together with my flaxseed gel, they become a deeply hydrating, tightening, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, awesome mask. I love it and you would too!

Iā€™d love to know how to do you use flaxseed gel? Let me know in the comments.

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3 Comments

  1. Iā€™m only just starting to experiment with face masks and so this post is particularly interesting! The ingredient of flax seed sounds like so much fun to experiment with! šŸ™‚

    aglassofice.com x

  2. So I love experimenting with face and hair masks, especially since my hair is curly. Hair products for curls usually have flax seed as one of their active ingredients, and I get leave-in conditioners with them. But I can definitely create my own hair mask using this recipe šŸ™‚ more natural!
    Keep posting, love how easy your recipes are xo5 stars

    1. I adore curly hair hun! And your curls are fabulous! Thanks for stopping by and do let me know how you like flaxseed gel. xo

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