Snail cream - the latest beauty fad
The latest
beauty
product to have captured attention from around the world with its magic ingredient may be leaving scientists cynical, but those who have used it are giving their thumbs-up.
The beauty potential of
snail slime
was discovered by chance, when Chilean snail farmers noticed their
skin
healed quickly and with no scars when they handled snails for the French food market, reports the
Daily Mail.
Those same farmers went on to launch Chilean snail slime product, Elicina, which this year enjoys its 15th anniversary.
Now, snail products are reportedly booming in notoriously beauty product-obsessed South Korea.
Korean brand Missha launched Super Aqua Cell Renew
Snail Cream
in 2010. Claiming that it ''soothes, regenerates and heals skin,'' the product contains 70 per cent snail extract - and to ensure the quality of the magic ingredient, snails are fed red ginseng.