The disgusting things We put on our faces

[GOD]

Men often remark that women are willing to basically put anything on their faces (cow dung is often referred to at this point with various degrees of derisiveness), provided that those particularly disgusting ingredients come with a nicely wrapped promise of helping our skin stay fresh-looking and young for longer. At which point, us ladies don't bother to bite back our tongues and come up with sharp replies that usually end with a muttered "I'd never put cow dung on my face, ever". How about snake venom or snail slime,piss,cow's milk, whale shit, or placental proteins? No, I'm not joking, nor have I gone completely insane for the sake of this argument. A recently compiled database of beauty products available around the world proves that as much as we'd hate to admit it, manufacturers at least seem to be convinced women are willing to buy the most bizarre skincare products, made with the strangest ingredients. A British company is marketing a face cream aptly called "Snake Venom Memory Cream", which costs a whopping $350 per bottle and is said to contain a "mirror ingredient" to snake venom which allegedly helps melt away fine lines, wrinkles and crow's feet. "There are now so many skincare products to choose from and manufacturers are increasingly having to look at the world around us in a new light to find bizarre new ingredients to make their products stand out from the crowd", explains Alexandra Richmond, a market research analyst with the company that compiled this unusual database. "By using these off-the-wall formulas, manufacturers are playing on the hope that something this wacky might just work", she added in an interview with the Daily Mail. Also on the wacky side are a face cream manufactured in China from bee mucus extract and which has dubbed itself "a balancing and anti-wrinkle essence", as well as a Colombian-made moisturizer manufactured from purified snail slime, which promises wonderful skin regeneration if applied every night. A slightly more down-to-earth but equally uncomfortable option is a US-manufactured Placental Anti-Aging Serum which claims to be the perfect treatment for post-cosmetic procedures such as chemical peels due to the fact that it is "safe, sterile and completely digestible by the human body". So, how about it – if you were to choose one of these products, which one would you go for?

Hoeopathy is similar in even giving you someone elses snot .

 

[druglessdouglas]

you read the daily mail? i like the idea of the snake venom digesting those unsightly lines and wrinkles. theres a certain poetry in that. ive a thing against lipstick containing placenta(oh yes, the expensive ones especially) and although cannibalisim is not illegal per se i like to choose what i eat carefully. if women, and some men, knew what they were puting on theyre skin then they wouldnt be as gullible as they are. but they are.so i say let them, the ranker the better snails and all

 

[Subtle_Nod]

There was also a thing about moisturizers on recently - summing it up - all the crap they add and the chemical names they invent mean nothing and do nothing - the only reason it does anything at all for your skin is because it has suntan lotion in it and that protects you from the sun.

 

[GOD]

"you read the daily mail?"

NO!!!

I got it from another web site . I havent read a newspaper for weeks and the only thing i miss is the crossword and the telly page .

 

[druglessdouglas]

theres something to be said for burning the skin off your face. if you remember gods story involving sodium chlorate, sugar and a match i did something equally stupid when i was 13 that resulted in sheets of skin falling off my face and an afro hairstyly. after a few weeks of silver nitrate cream an scabs i got a new pink shiny face. ive never suffered from acne since. maybe i could market it as a treatment, though itd be expensive

 

[st.bot.32]

Back in the olden days, the ladies used to smear lead on their faces.. nothing has really changed in this department, has it?

 

[Lion]

it is said that make-up might be a good cause for breastcancer

 

[GOD]

"ladies used to smear lead on their faces"

I think that that still happens . In india they have a dark coloured eye shadow called kalal or khalil or kahal or something like that and its highly contaminated with lead . It used to be widely available across europe when i was a teenager , i dont know if it still is .

 

[druglessdouglas]

another boring fact from drugless. the black stuff is called khol. the arabs thinned it with alcohol, al' khol. thats where the word alcohol comes from.

 

[mountain-girl]

heh as long as it doesnt hurt the animals, let them put cow shit on their faces if it makes them more happy, its just kindof sad that we feel the need to go to such lengths to be perceived as pretty. its all an armor of deception, sad eh? btw, with the plecenta thing, thats age old, i woudlnt bash that so readily, ive been a doula for some friends of mine and the midwives always run the plecenta on their skin, one even ate it once-there are acient practices, so i wouldnt bash all of them, just the whole commercial propeganda in it. i think wrinkles are beautiful anyways, i cant wait to be a wrinkly old lday and smile and skip past all those botoxed cow-shit faced ladies trying to look younger than they are..sigh, well i hope that they get some happiness outof it :roll: