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Snail Facial

02/09/2015
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    Snail Facial

Imagine a relaxing afternoon at the spa: soothing music, bubbling water fountains, pleasing aromas . . . and slimy snails. Sound relaxing?

Spa customers in Thailand are signing up for the latest beauty and wellness craze: snail facials.

The snail treatment involves placing multiple specimens of the gliding gastropods directly onto a customer’s face.

When agitated, snails secrete helix aspera muller glycoconjugates—snail mucus for short. That snail slime supposedly contains nutrients that some beauty experts say cure acne, treat splotches, and smooth wrinkles.

Snail farms all over Southeast Asia supply the mollusks for some of the world’s top spa destinations—many of which are located in Thailand.

One Associated Press reporter described the sensation of the tiny critters slithering around his face as “a slight, not unpleasant, scratching.”

But customers in the Chiang Mai Snail Spa sing the praises of the snail goop. “My face is firm and softer,” says one happy customer of the snail treatment.

Somehow having multiple snails crawling on my face doesn’t seem at all relaxing—not for me or for the snail.