I vomited when I saw "Gold"

The gold face mask made me think of the guy's mugshot on Smoking Gun. He was huffing gold paint.
[www.thesmokinggun.com]

@rpm773: because 24K gold disturbs you so???? that's pretty weird. bad experience once?

I had the fish pedicure in Singapore. I loved it. I went twice in 2 days, and wished I could bring the little guys home with me.

I draw the line at anything that is or was "All the rage in Asia "

@missdona: And according to the article, these pedicures are available here at a salon in Alexandria, where I'll be visiting for business in October. I may have to try this...

@Snakeophelia: You can bet it'll be more expensive than Singapore. It was like, $45US for an hour massage and a half hour of fish.

@Homerjay. Good and good for you.: I always questioned why some of those late night infomercials claim that "it's breakthrough technology discovered by scientists in Europe (or insert any other foreign country here) and customers are lining up to buy them for about $650!" But then of course, you can get yours for the low price of $49.95.

@EdnaLegume: I suspect sarcasm.

Thinking "gross": Maggots work better than anything modern to clean wounds out of dead tissues, and have been used as such for centuries. Which would NOT make me look forward to the experience.

I would take that if it would save my life. But use something as gross for vanity's sake? You just got to be kidding!

Egg shampoo is as far as I'll stretch it. Or bone marrow? Remember El Toro shampoo?

isn't placenta a common ingredient in many cosmetics? or perhaps at one time...i swear i remember hearing that somewhere.

@MauriceCallidice: I suspect you're right :)

@MauriceCallidice: I suspect someone didn't read the article, and assumed the worst, which leads me to further assumption that someone has a gross imagination.

I use the placenta shampoo. My hair seems to have more moisture and less frizz. The very idea creeps my hubby out, but it doesn't bother me any more than the idea of putting crazy chemicals in my hair.

Bird Poop Facial sounds like some kind of freaky animal pr0n.

@bohemian:

GitEmSteveDave; helping people post picts since 2007 *ting*

@Homerjay. Good and good for you.: I've always wondered how ancient cultures developed foot pads that draw the toxins out of your body like a tree draws toxins from the air and down into it's roots.

@mac-phisto: It can also be made into a delicious meal. YES, these videos contain people COOKING placentas to be eaten!:

@rpm773: I would check with the Beauty Brains before shelling out the cash for a gold facial.

Oooooh No. No. No.

Did I mention?: No.

The gold is no big deal though. Why would that be on the list?

@kalaratri: But your body could also be absorbing hormones that can mess up your own balance. Try avocado masks if you want something natural that will moisturize your hair.

I draw the line at leeches. Seriously, there would have to be a multitude of studies that show that leeches can detoxify blood to a beneficial level. The idea seems Dark Agey and scary.

@Kimaroo - 20% More Kitty Added!: Seeing as how it was only in the title, I am guessing that newly-starred-Laura was pointing out that not all "natural and organic" things are good for you, and just because something is "unorganic", does not mean its bad.

@GitEmSteveDave_IsTheStig: I decided to stop watching when the guy actually paused, looked around, lowered his voice, and said "placenta".

I have enough fuzziness in my brain as it is.

I found something even more disgusting around placentas. I'm putting it after the plus-sign. Only read it if you have a very strong stomach.

@bobert: People, um...

Cook and eat human placentas.

It's a practice called placentophagy, and if you google it, there are recipes and photos and lots of people (particularly moms) advocating it as a good idea.

I almost blew my oats.

It's a normal practice among other mammals, and I suppose it has some benefits, and it's not really cannibalism. And I am not a squeamish person. But pictures of cooked placenta on a bun just did me in.

@MostlyHarmless: Look at #6 : )

@Kimaroo - 20% More Kitty Added!: *sigh* I really need some stimulants at this point.

And thanks for being polite about it :D

Just put the "natural" and/or "organic" label on it and someone out there will buy it.

One day, people will be rubbing fecal matter extract in their hair.

@MostlyHarmless: Gold's inert though, it's not going to hurt you. And the amount of gold in gold leaf is also not going to be able to cause any appreciable build-up. In India, we eat sweets that have gold and silver leaf on them. As you can see, our population is still going.

@bobert: I think it's pretty much cannibalism, actually, it's just that it's cannibalism that doesn't cross ethical boundaries.

Cecil Adams did a column about placentophagy twenty years ago ([www.straightdope.com]); my guess is it's still a lot more talked about than done, but I'm not really a fan of organ meats in general, let alone organs that have been in people I know.

@MostlyHarmless: I told you that I'm not a generally angry person. It's easy to be polite on pajama day!

@ohnoes: Yeah, but then you also have to deal with people like Himmesh Reshamiya and Laloo.

I wouldnt mind having some silver leaved kaju katri though.

The best part is pani puris. Most people here would faint if they saw the location and preparation of the average pani puri -- and the sheer amount of people who eat those :P

I wonder if there is a market for the poop from my show turtles.

@bobert:

I'd eat placenta before I'd eat steak. I don't see the big deal. At least with placenta, nothing had to die. And IRT cannibalism; don't you have to kill a person for it to be cannibalism? <--honest question.

@thelushie: Medicinal Leeches are mostly used during re-attachment procedures, as they not only filter the blood, they inject a natural anti-coagulant, which helps maintain blood flow.

@bobert: I posted videos above of people cooking them under Mac-Phistos comment.

@Ptath: Maggots may not be so good at cleaning wounds: [www.redorbit.com]

The beauty marketing colossus is pushing things TOO FAR. TOO many exotic extracts. TOO many new ingredients. TOO many recipe changes.
I'm easy - it's the traditions that have REAL value.
Just give me eight pints of virgin's blood, a bathtub and a good book, and I'll be good.

@GitEmSteveDave_IsTheStig: It's the fact that he's a Warrior that sells it for me.

I use a protein pack for the hair called Henna 'N' Placenta, and was actually willing to use it - even if it had human placenta in it (my hair was in horrible shape after bleaching, and this stuff is supposed to be amazing). But, after checking the package, I found that it was supposedly made from plant placenta. How that is done, I can't imagine.

@missdona: Might I suggest using body cavities?

@missdona: Color me skeptical. WIth those tiny little fins, can they really give a decent deep-tissue massage?

@GitEmSteveDave_IsTheStig: It's Placenta-riffic!

@madanthony: Today, I'm going one level above birds. Today, I'm cleaning my kitty litter box with my head.

I just want to be around in the early research of these things.... WHO was the lucky duck that learned the virtues of bull semen.. and how.

See, this is why I've always been sketched out by that "natural flavors" ingredient in packaged foods. I mean, lots of really foul things are quite natural. Does this mean my delicious lemon-lime soda has bull semen in it?

@floraposte: 'I'm not really a fan of organ meats in general, let alone organs that have been in people I know.'

Amen.

@catniplover: If you cut off someone's arm and eat it, they wouldn't necessarily die from the injury but you're still consuming human flesh.