SNAIL SLIME SOAP

Here’s something new – soap made from snail slime. Frenchman Damien Desrocher began using snail slime to make soap bars in December. The secret, he says, “is in the dexterity of how you tickle them. I only touch it with my finger.” (* As opposed to, say, your tongue.) (* In some places, “tickling the snail” has a whole other meaning.) He sells in local markets. He has a total of 60,000 snails. (* Yep, exactly 60,000.) A single snail will yield about 2 grams of slime, and he needs around 40 snails to produce 80 grams – enough to manufacture fifteen 100-gram soap bars. He says snail mucus has become a more common ingredient, including in Korean beauty products, because of its anti-aging properties.
* It’s true. You never see an old-looking snail.
* Heck, I don’t even think I’ve ever seen one with wrinkles.
* One problem – the sticky snail soap takes forever to rinse off.
* And if the business fails, he can always pawn them off to French restaurants as escargot.
* Ask him, how’s business? “Slow.”