Want to do something for your face treat your face. with bird poop poultice at NYC Spa
Are you shocked, Bird poop for beauty?
The bird feces are used in facials at a luxury spa. This is the traditional Japanese treatment in which Asian nightingale excrements are used. These are then mixed with rice bran for which clients drop $180 a pop.
More than 100 women and men go into the Shizuka New York skin care salon, every month to get the treatment, which keeps the face more softly and smooth using an enzyme in the poop to gently exfoliate the skin.
Shizuka Bernstein, owner of the spa. She is a native by Tokyo and married to an American, has been offering this treatment and she named as Geisha Facial for about five years.
“I try to bring Japanese beauty secrets to the United States,” says Bernstein, who learned the treatment from her mother.
The Geisha Facial poop treatment, this is rarely used in the United States, but it is more familiar in Japan, where it was first used in the 1600s by actors and geishas.
“That’s why Japanese grandmothers have beautiful complexions,” says Duke Klauck, owner of the Ten Thousand Waves health spa in Santa Fe, N.M., offers a Nightingale Facial for $129.
Manhattan and Mari Miyoshi tried this treatment for the first time. The treatment begins with steam and softens the skin. Cream is applied. And then comes what Bernstein calls “the nightingale part.”
She pours the cream-colored poop, dried and finely ground, into a bowl, mixing it with the rice bran using a small spatula. She applies the potion to Miyoshi’s face with a brush, rubbing it in with her hands.
“This smells like toasted rice,” Miyoshi says. After about five minutes, it comes off with a foaming cleanser and Miyoshi’s face is draped in a warm, wet towel bathed in lavender and geranium essences. Finally with a green-tea collagen mask.
Dr. Michele Green, a Manhattan cosmetic dermatologist, says that while the nightingale facial “definitely has some rejuvenating effect
A common misconception is that any old bird poop, even from pigeons, is used. Bernstein says only droppings from birds of the nightingale species are used because they live on seeds, producing the natural enzyme that is the active ingredient.