There are many weird and wacky beauty treatments that have at best dubious benefits for the human body, this is just another.
Take a large tub of sea water fill it with one of the many species of small shrimp that are scavengers or cleaners, (sombody more familliar with crustaceans can suggest the most sutible species.) Jump in and let the little prawn cutlets do the rest. They will do their best to pick off and eat all the dead tissue and dirt on your body.
This sounds disgusting and weird because it is, its just the kind of thing that the ultra wealthy and the mega famous pay big bucks for. I'd say that $3000 dollars US an hour sounds like a reasonable fee, ofcourse this puts this kind of treatment well out of my price range but why the hell would I want shrimps eating me anyway?-- Gulherme, Feb 14 2003 baked in treatment of psoriasis http://www.psoriasi...ches/discussion.htm [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] No sea water required http://www.halfbake...a/Preening_20Shrimp [angel, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] There's a similar thing in Turkey involving fish [link]-- oneoffdave, Feb 14 2003 Seems like fodder for Penn & Teller's *Bullshit!*-- thumbwax, Feb 14 2003 dave-1: Nice of you to annotate to my link before seeing it!-- FarmerJohn, Feb 14 2003 Great minds and all that [FJ]-- oneoffdave, Feb 14 2003 Half-baked already. (Linky)-- angel, Feb 14 2003 I was swimming in the Wye once (why? I hear you think). I stopped for a breather, enjoying the tranquility. I could feel the weed against my skin, brushing past and..er..nibbling? I looked down and there were about fifty little fish gathered around, gently snacking off my (then) toned and rippled abdomen.-- egbert, Feb 14 2003 1. Let the shrimp clean your skin.
2. Get out of the bath (This step is IMPORTANT).
3. Boil the water.
4. Eat the shrimp !
Recycling at its best. Indirect self cannibalism ?-- 8th of 7, Feb 14 2003 Instead of shrimp, I want those bottom-feeder aquarium fish...-- RayfordSteele, Feb 18 2003 Large colorful carp, they have those funny mouths. Slurp! Tee-hee, it tickles!-- snarfyguy, Feb 18 2003 Second that. Had to work all weekend, except for the demo, w/ no HB. Draaaag.-- snarfyguy, Feb 18 2003 croissant. swimps are dope.-- lizzaurenpizzagni, Mar 05 2003 halfbakery