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A Tokyo spa is offering $243 snail facials, but dermatologists say it probably won't have lasting health benefits.
What the shell, right?
The treatment, called, "Celebrity Escargot Course," promises to help heal damaged skin and promote beauty, Yoko Minami, a sales manager at a Ci:z.Labo spa, told the Telegraph.
The newspaper's reporter said she became the first person in Japan to try the facial in which three snails were placed on her cheeks and forehead and allowed to wander around her face, leaving mucus-y goo in their wake.
"This clearly is not very scientifically done," said dermatologist Dr. Stephen Mandy, who works in Miami Beach, Fla., noting that the snail facial therapy session involves a message, a mask and electrical pulse machines, making it difficult to tell which one is benefiting the client. "It kind of reminds me of the fish pedicures."
The goo is supposedly packed with "a beauty-boosting cocktail of proteins, antioxidants and hyaluronic acid," according to the Telegraph.
But Mandy, a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, said there isn't much proof it will work.
