Made popular by Hollywood stars like Chrissy Teigen, Kourtney Kardashian and Victoria Beckham, light therapy is a popular beauty treatment that you can now indulge in from the comfort of your own home.
Once the reserve of the dermatologist's office or the rich and famous, light therapy involves using different light wavelengths to treat your skin.
Some of its reputed benefits include:
- Treatment of acne
- Collagen stimulation
- Reducing dark spots
- Treating uneven skin tones
- Improve blood flow and circulation
So, if you're looking to elevate your skincare routine, we've rounded up some of the best LED face masks you can buy today.
What does an LED face mask do?
An LED (light-emitting diode) mask can help reduce inflammation, acne, wrinkles, and pigmentation - making it a bit of a skincare superhero. So you can see why they are the new go-to for celebs at home, especially whilst salons were closed.
The masks boasts of tiny bulbs, that use different wavelengths of visible light that penetrate the skin at a deeper, cellular level - to improve and rejuvenate your skin.
How does an LED face mask work?
Different coloured lights help target various complexion problems. The anti-inflammatory, bacteria-killing blue light fights acne and regulates sebum production; red light boosts collagen and elastin, helping to minimise wrinkles and reduce redness, and green light helps fade pigmentation.
How often should I wear my LED face mask?
Expect to wear the mask daily for a few weeks to generate cell renewal and create a smoother, brighter, clearer complexion. Some LED masks we've picked out get to work in a matter of minutes and others, in just 90 seconds. So if you need something quick and easy to add to your skincare routine - we might just have the answer.
Now we've found some of the best LED light therapy masks you can use at home from the comfort of your sofa, bed, living room or between virtual meetings. Here's to a bright future...
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Best LED light therapy masks 2022
1. Red Light Therapy LED Light Mask
This multitasking seven-colour LED light mask targets a number of skin conditions.
It works to brighten and smooth, fight fine lines and wrinkles, battle blemishes, firm and tighten, and reduce pigmentation.
It's affordable, comfortable, and easy-to-use too.
2. Transparent LED Face Mask
This mask combines red and blue light to accelerate collagen regeneration, reduce pores, increase skin elasticity, fight spots, and minimise fine lines.
It's lightweight and portable, making it comfortable to wear and easy to take with you when you start travelling again post-pandemic.
3. MZ Skin Light Therapy Golden Treatment Mask
Suffering with hyperpigmentation, sun damage or spots? This in-salon-worthy LED mask will boost cell renewal to create a smoother, clearer complexion.
Using five different coloured LED lights, it targets different skincare concerns to calm, rejuvenate, restore and revive.
And who can resist this glamorous gold finish?
4. Dr Dennis Gross SpectraLite FaceWare Pro
This sought-after LED light therapy mask is a radiance-reviver that works in just three minutes a day.
Inspired by celebrity facialist Dr Dennis' in-salon lasers, the medical-grade mask boasts powerful anti-acne blue light, as well as firming, wrinkle-fighting red light for a bright and beautiful youth boost.
Smooths skin, beats blemishes and diminishes discolouration in 10 weeks.
5. Déesse Professional LED Mask Next Generation
Make like the stars and use the very same LED light therapy masks loved by Kim Kardashian.
With a choice of six treatment modes, this cult-status mask diminishes dark spots, lessens scars, battles breakouts, and stimulates collagen renewal to reverse the signs damage and ageing.
You'll get stronger, plumper, firmer, smoother, brighter, healthier-looking skin with a non-invasive treatment.
6. Sensse Restore LED Silicon Face Mask
This high-grade silicone LED mask uses 90 lights to emit wavelengths and target skin concerns. It has handheld remote control to change settings and boasts four different light settings.
Red to stimulate the growth of collagen to repair and restore damaged tissue, reducing wrinkles and removing fine lines. Blue to reduce the amount of oil your skin produces. Yellow to promote lymphatic drainage, improving skin elasticity and fighting wrinkles; and purple, which combines blue and red lights, for improving the appearance of light scarring and skin imperfections.
7. iDerma Youth Restoring Masque
Recreate advanced salon treatments at home with this anti-ageing LED face mask that uses phototherapy to increase collagen production to tone and tighten your skin.
Your skin cells will be regenerated to give a more youthful appearance, reducing wrinkles, minimising pore size and enhancing skin elasticity.
What's more, it's also a highly effective treatment for debilitating skin conditions such as rosacea, eczema and scarring.
8. CurrentBody Skin LED Light Therapy Mask
This CurrentBody LED mask is clinically proven to reduce wrinkles by 35% in just 4 weeks. 95% of users said their skin tone, texture, firmness and tightness was improved - so if you have a big event on the horizon, and you want to look your best? This might be the perfect investment.
Combing anti-ageing red and near infra-red light therapy, the patented flexible silicone ensures light penetrates every area of the face.
The CurrentBody LED mask is loved by non other than Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, Kaley Cuoco, Suki Waterhouse, Adwoa Aboah and many more.
9. No7 Laboratories Age-Defying LED Mask
Powered by clinically proven technology of red and near infra-red LEDs, this mask targets multiple signs of ageing to revitalise your skin.
The intensive, but pain-free wavelengths are controlled at the perfect level - to work beneath the surface where skin ageing starts.
This age-defying technology has been designed to help reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles - helping to reveal youthful looking skin.
10. Cellreturn Premium LED Mask
This 'CELLRETURN' device from Angela Caglia uses the same near-infrared LED technology studied by NASA and medical institutions for its unique healing effects.
With a patented, wireless design that targets your ears and neck too - it's fitted with almost 700 multicolored lights.
These LED lights help to stimulate collagen production, clear blemishes and reduce uneven pigmentation.
Best of all? It works on all skin types.
11. The Light Salon BOOST LED Mask
The Light Salon BOOST LED Mask uses two different types of light technology - giving you the best results.
It uses red to help stimulate collagen, encourage healing, calm redness and even your skin tone.
Near infrared helps boost circulation, improve the removal of toxins, deliver oxygen and nourishing the skin. All whilst working in combination with red light to enhance the production of collagen and elastin.
The near infrared, and most powerful of the rejuvenating wavelengths, helps penetrate deeper than any normal skincare product can reach.
How good is that? You'll have salon worthy skin from the comfort of your sofa in no time at all.
12. Rio FaceLITE Beauty Boosting LED Face Mask
The FaceLITE uses clinically proven wavelengths of light to instantly energise skin cells, for a natural revitalising boost for dull, tired, aging skin.
Due to the loss of collagen and elastic tissue as we age, the skin becomes thinner, drier and starts to sag - inducing wrinkles.
FaceLITE uses two proven wavelengths of light; red light and near infrared light. These wavelengths have been shown in clinical studies to stimulate collagen and elastin production cells.
FaceLITE has been designed to deliver light directly to the skin, ensuring that the maximum amount of light hits its cellular targets and is not wasted.
Combining optimised red and infrared light to give long lasting results, this LED mask helps stimulate the skin’s natural rejuvenation processes in a unique, quick and easy full facial treatment - which you do at any time while relaxing, reading or even working.
Simply wear the soft, hypoallergenic mask for 10 minutes each day to see how your skin is transformed in just a few short treatments.
13. Dr Dennis Gross Spectralite
The Dr Dennis Gross Spectralite is the skincare accessory that brings all the benefits of LED light treatment, into your home.
It only needs to be used for three minutes a day - so perfect if you never manage to find time for yourself.
The Dr Dennis Gross Spectralite works to stimulate skin collagen production, which can help to smooth and plump the skin.
This hands-free device features a total of 72 LED lights, capable of delivering a full spectrum of therapeutic light.
The flexible silicone design is easy to wear and easy to use with USB charging and automatic shutoff - so it will automatically turn off when the time is up.
14. Foreo UFO 2 Device for an Accelerated Mask Treatment
Now if the thought of wearing a device over your face is a bit much, why not try the Foreo UFO 2?
Foreo’s UFO 2 is perfect for an Accelerated Mask Treatment - and the future of your weekly masking ritual.
Designed to supercharge your pamper session, the UFO 2 comes with a choice of various treatments to tackle your main beauty concerns - and boost their effects with a choice of eight lights settings. You can chose from antibacterial blue light to sunburn-soothing yellow LED.
Condensing what would usually be a 20-minute session into just 90 seconds - so perfect for the time poor and easy enough to put into your nightly or morning skincare routine.
You can even switch from thermotherapy (warm) to cryotherapy (cold), or flit between brightening green light and collagen-boosting red light to prolong your skin’s health and vitality.
It doesn't get much better than that... So get one in your basket now.
15. Silk'n Led Mask
The Silk'm Led Mask is a 4-in-1 device with no fewer than four LED colours, each of which operates at different wavelengths and serves a specific treatment purpose.
The mask includes 100 lights and each colour and wavelength tackles a different skin problem in order to restore and improve the condition of the skin, for example, red light penetrates deeper into the skin than blue light, which works mainly on or just under the skin.
It's made of soft, flexible and natural silicone material, which makes it more comfortable to wear, making achieving the long-term results.
Now if you're really into your skincare and want the right products post-masking, then why not take a look at our guide to the best-selling anti-ageing serums that are top-rated on Amazon UK?
So what are you waiting for? You should have your best skin ever, and in no time thanks to these new LED masks being incorporated as part of your routine.
