Not in Nigeria ofcourse! We don chop am finish to begin use am for beauty treatment? LOL!
So Thailand's latest beauty trend: Snails for younger looking skin. Now, imagine this, one snail is slithering up the bridge of your nose while five others are being stuck onto other parts of your face, all secreting snail slime to hopefully smooth out some wrinkles and otherwise give you a younger-than-your-age look..... This is the latest addition to the global beauty and wellness craze — snail facials. Thailand ranks among the world’s top spa destinations, with massage treatments of every description offered around just about every corner.
Other members of the animal kingdom are also enlisted, including fish at some 4,000 pedicure spas. So is this merely another marketing ploy or an effective way to plump up skin in need of repair or rejuvenation? According to The Globe and Mail, appropriately given the French passion for these Snails, the spa was started last year by two Frenchmen who had imported 100 of them from home. The colony now boasts more than 30,000, munching on chemically free carrots, cabbage and aloe on a certified organic farm. A chosen few get plucked from the farm for duty at the 45-minute Snail Spa Celebrity Course. For $30, it’s a bargain compared to the $200 customers must shell out at Tokyo’s Ci:z.Labo, a beauty salon where snail massage made its debut in 2013. Spas have also opened in China and London, and the French duo are expanding to Bangkok next month.
Given its novelty, Chiang Mai public health inspectors last month descended on the spa to determine whether the treatment was safe and if imported snails officially classified as “alien creatures” — might prove harmful to local species. Results of the investigation have not yet been released. While the facials are new, concoctions made from snail mucus are said to date back to ancient Greece, when the great physician Hippocrates reportedly crushed snails and sour milk as a cure for skin inflammations. In recent times, the French have turned this essence of Snails into assorted creams and lotions. The fluid, exuded by snails when under stress, is known to contain beneficial nutrients and antioxidants, but Bangkok-based Dr. Dissapong Panithaporn and other dermatologists say that there has been no significant scientific research on how these actually work when applied to the skin. Champeyroux, a manager in France’s nuclear power sector before falling in love with Chiang Mai some years
ago, says his all-natural line of snail products, Coquille, acts against burns, acne, stretch marks, scars and aging. Some who have used this treatment said snails helped clear their acne when stressed during studies. Their face gets firmer and softer you don’t get immediate results. It shows gradually.”
Dont know if any spa in Nigeria offers such facial treatment but would you rather eat your snails or enjoy snail facials for a firm and wrinkle free face?
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