I learned from Borghese that mud masks are no more revolting on your face than jellied aspic is in your mouth.

His face was grim under the mud mask.

Founded in 1927, Helene Curtis initially sold mud facial masks.

She felt like she'd just walked into the men's bathroom stark naked with a dried mud mask on her face.

"I don't mind going first," she said, smiling under her mud mask when she realized it was actually true.

I found facial mud masks formulated from kaolin clay and volcanic ash (at www.organichealthandbeauty.com, $14.95 a bottle).

A mud mask was not a mud bath.

After washing off the mud mask, she just gave up.

The boy, his face covered in a mud mask, is not breathing, so they perform CPR.

"I just put a mud mask on my face and read a magazine," Mrs. Inkeles said.