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Do you know the concept of the Fish Spa? It's a pedicure in an aquarium. Very trendy in Asia. You entrust your feet to nice fish that eat your dead skin...
The Fish Spa, it's trendy!
Those who dive in shorty (wetsuit with short legs and sleeves) know well the cleaning fish. Harmless bugs that love to peck at elbows and knees to eat dead skin...
Good news: this "pleasure" is no longer reserved for divers! It's even trendy to immerse your feet in pools filled with cleaning fish, for a fish pedicure.
This therapy would have come from Turkey. The treatment was originally intended for people with skin problems (psoriasis, eczema, etc.). The fish rid the dermis of unwanted scales.
Now it's getting trendy!
More and more Asian spas are offering this fish therapy as a pedicure. The fish used in these famous pools is a freshwater fish, which answers to the sweet name of Garra rufa or Cyprinion macrostomus.
After the vogue in Asia (China, Singapore, Japan, Korea...) even the Americans are getting into it: see this Associated Press report here and this other from CBS there ...
"We come out with soft feet".
For my part, I'm not very sure to become a customer of this kind of thing. I do not like them too much, in fact, fish eating dead skin. An old grudge of a diver ...
Since I have my own wetsuit, long of course, I don't fear the overzealous cleaning fish anymore. But I remember well that I hated being pecked by these damn bugs, while diving, when I rented a shorty for the trips.
It doesn't hurt, no. Only, when I had a nice scab on my knee, it was sure to be swallowed by one of those gluttonous fish. Then, it was hard to heal properly... I still blame them.
And you, it tempts you, the fish pedicure ?
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Added the 22.11.2011 → And the shrimp manicureyou know?
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