disgusting
Sure, in the interest of eternal youth and
beauty, you can inject your face with collagen or botulism toxins. Or you could try something
really disgusting! Treehugger.com rounded up eight of the most disgusting "natural"
beauty treatments out there. Mmm, placenta.
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beauty
Since Consumer Reports hasn't yet stepped up and recruited big-hair aficionados and large-breasted side-sleepers to test infomercial
beauty products such as
Bumpits or the
Kush Support, Lemondrop has stepped up to test these products, as well as beauty and weight loss products ranging from the
PedEgg to
Colonblow.
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spa treatments
According to DivineCaroline, "After a long week at the 9-to-5, few things sound better than a relaxing massage and a bubbly drink. Clearly, I’m not alone—there are spas popping up all over the world, each one’s sole purpose to cater to our every desire. Papaya-scented body scrub? No problem. A mani-pedi-Botox package? Standard these days. Bull semen in your hair? You betcha!" See some of our favorite disturbing spa treatments, inside...
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products
Hey, do you know what's in Nair, the creamy hair-removal product that smells like skunks? (Or used to—the current formulation is supposed to smell better.) Now, thanks to Wired's
"What's Inside" article, you will! The active ingredient is potassium thioglycolate, a member of the thiol family, which not coincidentally is also responsible for the intense stink factor of
skunk spray. Thiols "eat into keratin (a skin and hair protein), which is what makes actual skunk spray (and Nair) lock onto human flesh and fuzz." Another chemical—calcium hydroxide—destroys the weakened hairs.
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beauty
Consumer Affairs says
bad makeup can harbor nasty bacteria, and can lead to such unpleasant face decorations as conjuctivitis or peri-oral dermatitis (little red bumps that look like acne). They suggest you tattoo permanent eyeliner and lipstick so you don't have to worry about
makeup. No, wait, that's what we suggest.
They actually suggest throwing out your eye makeup and liquid foundations after three months, powders after a year, and application sponges after a week. Oh, and smell your makeup: "An unusual odor usually means that it contains bacteria."
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aveda
According to a company insider, Aveda recently pulled a hair product from their shelves because it contained too many or too high a concentration of
volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can be nasty pollutants.
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top
As with many things in life, we take our health and
beauty advice from professional dominatrixes. That's why we'll be avoiding purchasing this facial cream, for while a rose may be a rose and so forth...
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Consumerist
absurd
Good News: The New York Times recommends "rethinking" any 
