DIY skincare recipes

I admit it. For most of my adulthood, I sneered at the thought of homemade beauty products. I also admit that, as a teenager, I tried making them, but I was soon beckoned by the world of luxurious and expensive products. Besides, why would you smear your face in a concoction of smashed-up bananas and oats, which duly falls off your face like giant flakes of dandruff? I had one misadventure where none of the mix remained on my face. I knew then that my dalliance with homemade masks (or any kitchen beauty product) was over, as I stood surrounded by blobs of what resembled tropical gruel.

Then one