The day after Thanksgiving has traditionally been known as Fur-Free Friday, the day when fur stores around the country can look forward to having squads of animal advocates demonstrating just outside their doors. PETA, the organization that started Fur-Free Friday, wants to garner some holiday goodwill not just for animals killed for their fur but […]
Beauty Without Bunnies
Crawling Snails, Biting Fish, and Other Beauty Treatments That Aren’t Pretty
I like my beauty regimen as natural and organic as I can get it. But I prefer that my treatments not move about independently. So the strange new “snail facial” offered by one Japanese salon seems kind of, well, slimy. The theory is that as the snails roam around a person’s face, their mucus helps […]