In Tokyo, there is a spa where you pay to have snails slithering over your face as it makes skin softer and magical affect on skin shining and glow .This is Cosmetic Charismatic Helix
retailing at around £1,600 per kilo. They contain essential fatty acids,Omega-3, calcium, iron, selenium, magnesium and are a rich source of vitamins E, A, K and B12. The latest trend is for snails’ eggs ‘Pearls of Aphrodite’, known as white caviar, retailing at around £1,600 per kilo. Mostly ‘farmed’ in Spain, the eggs are laid twice a year, collected with tweezers, washed, purified and sterilized before being lightly salted and tinned – this explains their high cost. Did you know that Helix are also used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes? The benefits of Helix slime were recognized in ancient Greece by Hippocrates who used it to heal skin and ulcers and to reduce scarring. More recently, Chilean farmers highlighted the benefits when they noticed cuts on their hands healed very quickly and their skin became softer. This is because the slime contains allantoin, antibiotics, glycolic acid, collagen and elastin, and so it heals and regenerates skin cells minimizing scars. In 2013, Louis-Marie Guedon in France began to harvest slime and now plans to produce 15 tones a year to meet the increasing demand from cosmetic companies wishing to incorporate the slime in their skin care products. In Tokyo, there is a spa where you pay to have snails slithering over your face as it makes skin softer and magical affect on skin shining and glow .This is Cosmetic Charismatic Helix
So, how much do you know about the life of a Helix ?snail,Crab,Frog,Rice Fish ,Shrinks Raw Spirulina ,Biofloc ,Sea Food )? Belonging to the mollusk family, sea snails lived 550 million years ago and land snails evolved 286 million years ago. There are now 43,000 snail species found in different habitats around the world. Their bodies have no bones and their shells are made of calcium carbonate with protein layers which harden over time. Water snails have the most intricate patterns in red, orange and yellow whereas land snails use camouflage colors such as white, brown and grey to hide from their many predators. Snails have a simple brain but are capable of associative learning and of forming long-term memories. They can lift up to 10 times their own body weight in a vertical position. Did you know snails have over 14,000 teeth on their tongue, which is rough like a cat’s, and they can locate food a few metre away due to their extraordinary sense of smell? The larger set of tentacles is their eyes, although they are almost blind and the smaller set is their olfactory organs. Snails are one of the slowest creatures on earth, moving along at 1.3cm a second. Mostly active at night or during the day if it rains, many species hibernate in winter or during severe droughts, by sealing their entrance with dried mucus called an epiphragm and then gluing themselves to something in a shady place. The largest land snail recorded was a giant African snail measuring 12 inches long and weighing nearly two pounds. They only live for around five years although some species can live up to 25 years, (except around here as they are collected and cooked long before they grow up). Snails are hermaphrodites so they have both male and female reproductive organs, but they still need another snail in order to fertilize each other’s eggs or they take it in turns which sex to be! Mating occurs at the end of spring into early summer and 80-100 eggs are laid in the soil. Transparent baby snails hatch within two to four weeks and it takes up to three months for them to fully develop their adult colors. They are usually a mirror image of their parents and reach adult size and sexual maturity in two or three years.
