"Snail facial"

A Japanese beauty salon has developed a new skin treatment involving slime discharge from live snails... The treatment involves a therapist placing snails directly onto the faces of reclining clients and allowing the molluscs to move at random, leaving trails of mucus slime in their wake.

The secreted snail mucus is key to the facial, as it reportedly contains a beauty-boosting cocktail of proteins, antioxidants and hyaluronic acid, which help skin retain moisture, reduce inflammation and remove dead skin.

This is not from The Onion; it's from The Telegraph, via Nothing to do with Arbroath.