How far is a person ready to go in search of the perfect appearance? It's not for nothing that they say that beauty requires sacrifice, and sometimes, in order to be proud of your own reflection in the mirror, you have to do very unpleasant things. Here top 7 most disgusting cosmetic proceduresthat people subjected themselves to in the name of beauty.
7. A bath full of blackheads
Opens our selection of slimy ways to make skin soft and radiant. Baths filled with many tiny eels are popular in China. Snake-like creatures stick around the body, and eat dead skin particles. After such a bath, the skin of even mature people looks like in youth.
6. Radiation therapy
In the 1930s, radium and thorium were added to face creams, powders, and even soaps. Those who wanted to show off their shiny teeth were offered radioactive toothpaste. It was believed that small doses of radium would "stimulate the basic functions of living cells" and restore vital energy.
The disadvantage of these radioactive products was that they caused a huge number of health problems. The most harmless of these was hair loss. Those who worked with radium developed bone necrosis and incurable cancers. This quickly put an end to the rave about cosmetic radioactive products.
5. Lead, arsenic, and mercury
These days, tanning shows that you have enough funds to spend your leisure time on the beach. However, there were times when tanning was considered a sign of a commoner (due to the need to work outdoors), and aristocratic pallor was in vogue. And to make the skin of the face as light as possible, ladies in Ancient Greece used lead whitewash. Problems with such cosmetics were already known then. Lead corroded the skin and to hide it, you had to apply even more white on the face. Lead also causes aggressiveness, headaches, vomiting, seizures, and eventually death. White lead was also popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were actively used by the English queen Elizabeth I. Presumably, her death was due to lead poisoning.
In the 19th century, those looking to get rid of age spots, freckles, and other skin problems could purchase an arsenic lotion to effectively cleanse the skin. There were also analogues of the lotion intended for oral use. An overdose of arsenic leads to bloody vomiting, hair loss, diarrhea, and seizures. But at least there will be no time for freckles.
Modern skin lightening products, as well as mascara, often contain mercury, an element that can cause kidney problems and a host of other dire side effects. Therefore, when buying cosmetics, you need to carefully read the composition.
4. Solitaire diet
Solitaire diet, the most dangerous diet in the world... If you burn more calories than you consume, your weight will drop. But many people just can't bring themselves to eat less. How to burn calories in a different way? Introduce a not very friendly neighbor, a tapeworm, into the intestines.This worm will eat food from the environment and grow instead of your waistline. The presence of this parasite in the body can cause not only loss of weight and appetite, but also pain, diarrhea, anorexia, diffuse cysts, seizures and, in some cases, death. Isn't this one of the most disgusting and dangerous ways to get slim and beautiful?
3. Snail massage
For this procedure, live snails are used (not anyhow, but the giant Achatina), which are sent to "walk" in the face. They can help fight the signs of aging. It is believed that this massage helps to reduce the marks of scars, acne and stretch marks.
Those who cannot accept the idea that a snail will crawl down their face can buy creams containing snail mucus.
2. Bovine semen
One of the most disgusting beauty treatments in our ranking involves the use of a mask or hair conditioner containing bovine semen. It contains a lot of protein, so the hair after such "sperm therapy" becomes surprisingly soft and strong. So if you see foods that contain the flirty acronym BSP (Bovine Seed Plasma), you know what they contain. True, the semen is frozen before use and does not smell.
1. Foreskin for face care
You've probably heard the common expression "smooth as a baby's bottom." Some cosmetics companies have taken this cliché and put it to practical use. Using the foreskin left over from the boys' circumcision, they turned it into money. And it deserves to be at the top of our hit parade of weird and nasty ways to preserve beauty.
The foreskin contains stem cells (fibroblasts) that cannot be grown for the needs of the cosmetic industry in sufficient quantities in the laboratory.
Fibroblasts strengthen the skin's structure, and those who have used creams containing foreskin cells claim to have found positive changes in their appearance.