Garden Snails. Euros crawling around your garden.

Garden Snails. Euros crawling around your garden.

We all have them in the garden, they are a pain in the neck eating your lettuce and making holes in the cabbage. However, now there appears to be a new use for the humble garden snail.  In Japan they are being used in a new beauty craze called The Celebrity Escargot Course. It last 60 minutes and people are willing to pay huge money for the privilege.

Apparently, live snails are being hailed as the new fountain of youth, giving you young beautiful smooth skin as they crawl across your face as part of a snail facial massage that was launched in Tokyo but is taking off across Europe.

You have to lie down and then snails are placed on your face, as they crawl happily along their way they leave behind a trail of mucus slime and this is the key. The slime is said to be full of beauty boosting proteins and goodies which help skin retain moisture, remove inflammation and removes dead skin.  It has even been suggested that the snail facial may help to heal damaged skin.

Snails are numerous in our gardens, are cheap to feed, in fact you can use the organic nature of both snail and food as a selling point.  You can also play up the fact that because they are fed organically they are clean and healthy so there’s no worries about having them crawl all over your face. You don’t need slatted houses or massive vet bills so its win, win all the way.

Part of the treatment includes, massage and facial masks containing creams made with an infusion of snail mucus so it has the added bonus of selling your clients the cream to use at home.  I can see it now, snail cream, snail serum, snail ointment, snail moisturiser, anti-aging cream.  The list goes on.

If it can heal damaged skin as claimed then you could even sell snail sun cream that will help to heal the effects of sun burn.

It might sound like the stuff of nightmares but don’t forget the Japanese have already sold people the idea of fish pedicures and beauty facials using nightingale faeces so maybe this is just the next logical step.  Of course the American movie stars are going mad for it and you know how they like their Irish roots. So come on boys and girls how about using some home grown Mayo snails to make your fortune.  There are loads of celebrities only too willing to pay big bucks and they’re not all in America, what about those eejits up in Dublin 4.

I wonder if slugs work as well, we could make a fortune.

Don’t forget, you heard it on WRFM first