Natural ingredients make wonderful skin-firming and renewal treatments, using many of the kind of ingredients used in commercial products. You can make your own skin-renewal treatment – a DIY AHA (alpha-hydroxy acid) particular suitable for mature or ageing skins. (You can have an ageing skin in your twenties if you have spent far too much time in the sun).

Herbal AHA Treatment:

Mix 1 oz of brewer’s yeast powder into 4 tablsp of apple juice (freshly pressed) and then stir in 2 tbsp of plain live yoghurt. Coat face and neck and leave for 15 minutes, then rinse off thoroughly. The lactic acid (in the yoghurt) and malic acid (in the apple juice) are common ingredients of commercial AHA treatments. Brewer’s yeast – full of B complex vitamins is thought to help cell renewal.