perfect design thanks where to buy good food made simple egg patties It’s not just in the hardware department that recycling and repurposing have been the guiding principle, either. When it comes to holiday hygiene and cleanliness the unlikeliest of throwaway ingredients are pressed into service chez McCloud. “We found that snail slime has a skin-regenerating protein that makes it effective as a face cream,” he says (come to think of it, his face does have an extra-youthful glow). “We made our own soap, too, out of a mixture of rotten mackerel and lime, crushed in a cider press and mixed in with seaweed.” Not for the faint-hearted, clearly. Even less so is his ingenious recipe for toothpaste. “It’s a rather grey-looking substance which is very effective,” enthuses McCloud. “It’s made from ground-up cuttlefish bone, mixed with human urine, boiled down to a glue.”
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