avocado aloe oatmeal face masks

So, after a hellish time sweating my ass off in Haiti, getting bitten by mosquitoes all over (through my clothing even!) and scratching the hell out of myself, Jonah decided some aloe vera gel would help. He got this kind, which is apparently as close to the actual aloe plant as you can get in a bottle.

One thing the product came with is a PDF of recipes. I was intrigued by the avocado aloe oatmeal face masks, which were indeed just those three ingredients:

1/8 avocado
1 TB aloe vera
1 tsp oatmeal

A word to the wise - flakes of oatmeal don't actually stick to the face. I was smart enough to food processor the oatmeal into flour, though not smart enough to run that flour through a sieve in order to get the finest particles. And the finest particles are what you want. Because otherwise the mask is still really lumpy.

I jazzed it up with some freshly sliced cucumbers however. Which, enabled by this mask, do actually stick to the face.



And this is the first time that the three of us appear together! We have been living together post-Naudain House. Amy came to us from Craigslist, just as I came to Jonah from Craigslist. Oh the magic of strangers who become BFFs.