When a beauty brand has been around since 1984, like M.A.C. Cosmetics, it’s bound to have a few products that evoke nostalgia. And the beloved label has plenty that’ll tickle my fellow millennials’ ...

Snails about three inches long, are bred by farmers for their mucus, made popular in large part by a South Korean beauty trend that uses the filtered slime in face serums and moisturisers. Giant ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans used snails for beauty treatments. Now 2,000 years on, snail farming is flourishing in Italy thanks to a new craze for slime-based skincare and health products. Like les ...

Snails are being "milked" for their slime, as part of a new beauty craze which is seeing the substance used in cosmetics and moisturising creams. The potential of snail slime - known as mucin - was ...

Slime produced by three breeds of land snails found locally has a more powerful cosmetic effect than that taken from snails in cold countries, a Chulalongkorn University scientist team revealed ...

Demand for Italian mollusc secretions has increased by 46% in the past 10 months, thanks to its popularity as an anti-ageing ingredient. But does it really work? In a never-ending quest to find a ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Giant African snails endemic to Thailand are getting the red carpet treatment to keep them producing top-notch slime, say farmers harvesting the mucus for use in cosmetics. At a ...

Giant snails inch across a plate of pumpkin and cucumber in central Thailand, an “organic” diet to tease the prized collagen-rich mucus from the molluscs, which to some cosmetic firms are now more ...