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clean your face with bird poop!
  • tsunamino
    Apparently there is a spa treatment where you clean your face with bird poop.

    "For centuries in Japan, both Kabuki actors and geishas used uguisu no fun, or nightingale droppings, to clean off their thick white makeup and soothe their faces; apparently, guanine, found in the droppings, helped their complexions. Shizuka’s poop has been sanitized through exposure to ultraviolet light, then finely milled and mixed with rice bran. It’s applied as a mask and costs $180 for a 50-minute treatment."

    http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/45598/

    Well, it's better than looking up under a flock of seagulls, I guess.
  • PurpleRulesPurpleRules
    See, this is the really great thing about science. Scientists can figure out what it is in the bird poop that's good for your skin, develop a synthetic version, give it a science-y name and put it skin care products that we can afford and are willing  to put on our skin. Way to go, science! If you're only willing to put "natural" products on your skin, then you have to pay $180 for actual sanitized bird poop or do the seagull thing if you can't afford the spa treatment and are willing to settle for unsanitized bird poop.
    Seriously though, I really want to try a fish pedicure. There's a salon in town that's doing them but I'm still battling my toenail fungus. If I ever manage to get rid of the fungus, I'm going to try it. 
  • Janis
    I still have to laugh at any discussion that weighs the relative merits of sanitized versus unsanitized shit.

    I can't shake the conviction that a sanitized cup of shit is an empty cup that's been run through the dishwasher a few dozen times.
  • tsunamino
    I guess someone beat us to our idea of putting poop on our faces. I was hoping to make some money off that, too!

    Does that fish pedicure thing work? I thought I saw something that disproved it. Hmm..
  • taiwanesegurltaiwanesegurl
    I remember reading about it in Memoir of a Geisha.  When I heard about it I immediately thought about the part where Chiyo/Sayuri would mix in pigeon (i think it was pigeon) poop instead of nightingale poop into Hatsumomo.
    Really, how are we suppose to really trust that it's sanitized nightingale poop?
    hold on.. why would I put any sort of poop on my face..
  • Janis
    There's also the issue of organic versus synthetic birdshit. Is this fair-trade, eco-friendly crap or what?

    Now I'm wondering what "synthetic shit" would be. Milli Vanilli?
  • tsunamino
    Well, supposedly there's an ingredient in it that is good for you, but I can't see why scientists can't just replicate it in a lab and we just use that..
  • taiwanesegurltaiwanesegurl
    yes.. guanine.. which could be converted from uric acid..
    but see.. geishas used this mask to keep their skin glowing and clear!  vs "guanine based cream to keep skin glowing and clear!"
    most people are like, wtf is guanine?  but oh geishas are sooo beautiful!  oooh i'll use whatever geishas used for hundreds of years! 
  • tsunamino
    Geishas also used makeup made from lead. Should I go and paint my face with lead paint so that I can have horrible horrible skin cancer like them??

    Btw, thank you taiwanese girl for clarifying what ingredient is active in the bird poop and what it can be made from. I never knew!
  • Left BrainLeft Brain
    This was mentioned in our post about the 10 Strangest Ingredients Used in Cosmetics.  Also included...cow dung.
  • taiwanesegurltaiwanesegurl
    My secret tsunamino.. is wikipedia.  =P 
  • tsunamino
    Aw, looks like I'm behind in the times :(
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