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- Snail slime is used in skincare products around the world. Advocates often claim it can improve wrinkles and texture. But how does it go from snail to shelves?
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How Snail Slime Became A Multibillion-Dollar Beauty Industry | Big Business | Business Insider
If you’re saying it’s a defense mechanism that makes them secrete slime… it’s kind of like saying that someone scaring that crap out of you for hours on end and then milking your sweat is a spa day.
How do you think they extract adrenochrome?
Like Monster Inc
Like someone making you run without letting you eat and drink beforehand and collecting your sweat. Or someone making the room hot so you can sweat. Gross
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These are snails we are talking about people. Jesus Christ, this isn’t an animal rights issue their snails who cares about snails. 💀
“The snails aren’t harmed”
*kills snails after extracting every last drop of slime*
It's like a little spa that makes them literally wring themselves out like a soaked towel as a literal defense mechanism.
Oh, and we do this FOUR TIMES, then they aren't worth doing it again and their lifespan has been cut so we end their miserable existence.
AND THEN we proceed to package their corpses for devouring. Pretty ethical huh? much better than just killing them after only one milking, much more efficient this way.
(Notice how none of that makes it better sounding.)
How hypocrisy they are
"we just pour acid on them instead😀😀😀😀"
keep crying 😂
The acid part was a bit crazy. It's still producing stress.
If script writer had just been honest about the snails dying, then I would not mind. However, during 90% of this video the narrator says that the slime-extracting machine does not kill the snails. Only near the end do you learn that yes, indeed, they do kill the snails with ozonated water.
Yeah, I think the point they were making is that they don't kill the snails in order to get the slime. This way, they get more slime per snail because they're alive making it rather than just getting the slime that they release when they die. I think it was more an efficiency point rather than a anti-animal cruelty point. But I agree, the way they say it is pretty misleading
But they don’t kill them to make slime they kill then to make other products liek actually eating the snails and using their shells
In all fairness, there not being waisted, everything is being used, can't be any better I say🤷 Although I do agree it's misleading
Yeah right it was like 5min of how great this new process is cuz it’s non-lethal to the snails and then there last 10sec they like but we kill them anyway.
@@James-9999 it's great cause it revolutionized the amount of slime they are able to harvest,while aslo being able to use the snail as food after😉
I was puzzled at first about why any company will spend the money to create a “humane” machine and then it dawns on me that they are just milking the snails to the max. It’s not humane at all.
You can report the video for "Violent and Repulsive Content" and select " Animal Abuse". If enough of us do this, maybe we can make a difference
@@martinchamberlin3359 no reporting the video just hampers awareness. I say keep the video
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@@martinchamberlin3359 What difference? This video just reports about this, people will still buy the products
@Oye no it's not
Oh my god, literally no one saw that twist coming! "We used to kill them to get the slime, now we extract it ethically, and then we kill them anyway! **SHOWS FOOTAGE OF SNAILGUTS SCOOPED FROM SHELLS** LMAO
The question for me isn't even if the snails die at the end, but how "more ethically" they consider this whole operation to be. They've only found a way to produce more slime before killing the snails, by exposing them to an stressful environment. It more or less "extends the torture", rather than minimizes it.
I am wondering where the snails got their army of trolls to defend their reputation online..
@@yukinagato1573 Yeah, imagine if they started harvesting poor people this unethically for blood donations in the US, oh wait we do that...they just also get paid for it and get to live after.
@@yukinagato1573 Exactly. But this channel isn't exactly known to care too much about that part of the industry. You get one or two sentences, that's it.
At least everything is used to benefit us so nothing goes to waste lol 😅
This sounds to me like they created a procedure that places the snails into an environment they where they'll feel dangerous enough to release their defenses mechanism. They continue to do this enough times to drain out all bodily fluids until they eventually are too weak to produce any more slime in which case they're killed. It's like a scientific way of sprinkling salt water onto the snail to get it to feel like it's getting water tortured.
Look I get what they're to say but lets call it like it is. it's a better mouse trap. It's not good for the snails. You've only found a new way to get more slime out before you kill them. Don't make it out to sound like you're doing the snails a favor.
yeah i think the whole thing was painted a bit too positivly
Well, what did you expect? Is there truly a meat business without murder? Is there a single sustainable company? You use all of the animal, and let it reproduce for generations to come. Sure it's a bit positive. But what did you expect?
It's funny how people draw a very vague line in the sand when something is considered animal cruelty. Yes I know it's a snail and by all scientific standing, I can more than guarantee that they have provided research saying snails don't have pain receptors and so on and so forth, but when you scale up the research- would it be ok if say a duck produced the same enzymes under similar circumstances? What about a horse? Chimpanzee? If the extract works, whatever fine, but it's torturing and stressing out the snails, don't paint it as anything but. I could imagine the very same researchers if you place them in the room and sprayed them constantly with a mildly caustic agent to produce I don't know, tears that cure baldness, and claimed it was ethical because the subjects were being fed and they had a room and things to occupy their mind: you're still causing a good amount of pain to create the solution. Rationalizing is an interesting concept to see in practice 😂
keep crying 😂
social justice warrior
"we used to have to KILL snails to get their slime. Now we just have to torture them!"
Also, calling an acid shower a "little spa" is so psychotic lol
yeah you can see the snails squirming from pleasure from the spa at 5:17
"they release acidic solution that stimulates defense mechanism of snails"
"this doesn't harm the snails"
make it make sense
probably works like a sauna or smth
Then they are just euthanized as if they begged to be put out of their miseries
it's 1000% bullshit. It harms them plenty. What she meant to say probably was "this doesn't harm them in a way that makes them unusable livestock later". There is 0 chance the snails are enjoying their acid bath. Like a spa. Disgusting.
Aw you sweet simple thing.
I can blow a puff of clean air into your eye. Your eye will reflexively water.
Were you harmed? :,(
@@guissedom6353 you sour, bitter douche. If I spray your eyes with acid, your eye will reflexively water.
Were you harmed?
Not enough where I can later take your organs, so this is super okay.
Presenting this in a positive light is exactly what I'd expect from a "business" channel.
Its just like farming livestock but snails, i think this is pretty sick except for the part that its expensive…
@@Seanybearscouts ah yes, because other evil similar to this has been made harmless, now this is also harmless...
@@zilaz whatever you say man thats why slaughter houses are made, so that people don’t go vegetarian. I swear its like a bloodbath inside a room and tons of hanged livestock, i can literally see why they don’t have windows/far from areas with tons of people.
@@Seanybearscouts So are we on the same page here or not?
You said "it's sick except it's expensive", but your latest comment seems to be with me, so im wondering, where do you stand exactly? ^^
@@zilazwell i think you think farming livestock is evil and i think its not… the only problem for me is the price just to get it, too lucrative. we both hate it but in a diff way… (also how do you interpret the word “sick” just a random question)(are you being sarcastic with your 1st comment??)
Would’ve been a lot better to *not* emphasize how the extraction process doesn’t harm the snails before explaining that they are euthanized anyways, especially considering there’s no proof it doesn’t harm them; nociception in mollusks is not well understood. Regardless of whether it “hurts” or not, the snails are releasing the slime as a defense mechanism, which makes it clear they are distressed by the process; stress can be quite damaging to many creatures. Just be honest and say that the snails are livestock and eventually get harvested once they stop producing enough slime. It’s not that hard.
I’m not one of those people who will argue against the industry as a whole, as ultimately the snails are treated well for the vast majority of their lifespan and have a better life than their wild counterparts, but I am against the misleading reporting. It’s good that nothing goes to waste, but as someone who’s fairly interested in invertebrate welfare, I’m also basing my views of the process on the assumption that the method of euthanasia is quick and relatively painless. If anyone knows for sure if the process is humane or just an alternative to freezing- which is slow and painful(imagine having needles forming inside your flesh and stabbing you from the inside, that’s what it’s like due to ice crystals) and has been deemed unethical by some experts- I’d appreciate an explanation, since one isn’t given in the video.
They should have said yeah we kill the snails but they st least is not for nothing
The fact that people would rather put snails on their faces and not in their faces should show their general stupidity.
@@aaroniouse i dont understand your point as to why your calling it stupid….
nobody cares about snails , focus on the planet and global warming
@@johansjournal Snails are part of the planet, my guy. They’re an essential part of the ecosystems they belong to and, like it or not, also provide income that some people rely on. The only thing really up for discussion here is animal welfare, and I believe living creatures should be treated with some level of respect regardless of how intelligent we perceive them to be. Besides, if people are allowed to care about animals that humans made(most dog and cat breeds, city pigeons, and feral animals come to mind, all of which came about as a direct result of human actions), why can’t others care about species that originated in nature? The planet is more than just temperatures.
Trying to get on peoples’ cases for not discussing climate change and whatever other manmade bullshit is going on when they’re discussing something that conceptually applies to all animals on earth is kinda counterproductive. It doesn’t matter if the temperature of the ocean gets fixed tomorrow if people don’t care about the creatures living there, it doesn’t matter if every poacher gets caught and executed on live TV if people ignore every other problem being faced by what those poachers hunted. Ultimately, any time an animal is removed from its ecosystem, that ecosystem is weakened and thrown out of balance. Sometimes in more noticeable ways, sometimes in ways humans won’t notice until decades have passed. As such the goal is to encourage people to care for all creatures to some degree, even if they aren’t cute or cuddly or cool or fun to look at. Otherwise the planet will just suffer in different ways, or even in the same ways for different reasons.
So, to be blunt, go whine on someone else’s comment, this is a pro-snail zone and there’s nothing you can do about it. Metaphorically you’re getting mad at folks for wasting time doing things other than making plans to deal with dry rot when the issue they’re focusing on currently is wildfire prevention. We can do both, it’s not a one or the other issue. Stop treating it like one.
I'm a cosmetics formulator and there are literally thousands of skincare ingredients that are not made from snails that work really well. We have better more ethical options why are we still doing shit like this??
Can you recommend a healthy synthetic alternative that you like?
“That’s not the end of it! The snails go through this process about three or four times before they are euthanised with a highly concentrated solution of ozonated water.” As if snails asked to be killed this way by signing a consent form. Does this narrator understands what she meant by this sentence after using the term “without killing them”500 times before ? 🤯
As if the narrator was the one to write the script
And neither do other animals
this method uses fewer snails for the same amount of slime and they can also be sold as food like always has been the case before slime beauty products. how does anyone find this operation bad? that same snail would before be 3 snails 2 for slime and 1 for food for the same amount of materials. they are food, to begin with so no matter the other uses they would always be killed to be eaten the same for milk cows. they will also end in a burger and just get to live a lot longer than normal cows. any farm animal passing away any other way is a waste of resources now that is wasteful and polluting.
@@slayin9331 as if the narrator doesn't have her own brain.
Weird choice of words by the narrator. Just admit they were harmed and killed
Hm, they put all this emphasis about how good life the snails have when they are reared and then how they invented machines to extract slime that won’t kill them....and then they get killed anyway 😑 Just be honest and say the machine is only so you can extract slime multiple times when before you could only do it once by killing the snail straigt away, it’s not about animal welfare but economics 🤷♀️ Wasn’t attracted to these product and certainly am not interested now 😑
Animal welfare from a farm? Lol u have to be joking
We eat billions of mollusks every day. Who cares whether these snails die or not?
@@rain1fy "we", nah nah nah, we in America don't eat snails. I don't care about them being exploited for their natural life juices but it is still fucked up regardless of if I care or not.
If they don't kill the snails, it'd probably be a good marketing for them
@@thanhavictus Or they could keep them alive so they could extract more and more slime... Which is also cruel anyway
"Stimulated" sounds kind of pleasant, but "tormented" or "tortured" would probably be more accurate.
Sounds better than the brutal death of your average meat-animal.
Yes they use the slime when scared and to escape predators. So I guess they are tortured maybe using electric shock.
Inhumane will be even better
@@thebeautifulanimal It explains in the video, they're being showered in an acidic solution.
As a snail owner this hurts my heart, poor babys :(
So glad I saw this video. Ive been seeing so many snail mucus products labeled as “cruelty free” and am seriously questioning how they are allowed to call it that
Cosrx doesn't kill their snails. They collect the slime from snails going over mesh
@@OscarGarcia-kx6xr They still kill them after a few slime sessions though )= just for a diffrent reason than getting the slime so its hard to get mad about it since its the same as animal husbandry
@@OscarGarcia-kx6xr What are your sources?
@@Thee_Jadex ok and?
“The snails aren’t harmed”
The snails: HAAAAAAA I'M MELTING!
So, it doesn't hurt the snails but after 3 or 4 times they have to be "euthanized"? Does that count as green washing or is that something else?
Yeah, sure, whatever.
They keep them alive to milk them multiple times. They are killing two birds with one stone
so to you snails lives are important but cows aren't?
@@importantstuf8870 bruh, you missing the point. he's not against killing the snail. its about faulse advertising. They stated multiple times that the snail will not be harmed/killed but then procced to enthanize them for food and their shells.
@@aaroniouse Yeah bra right on
they literally milked them dry before killing them, that's worse than the traditional method lmao.
lol the definition of farming Cows!
@@Seanybearscouts really? I thought milk cow don’t get slaughtered.
Just like torcher
@@secondary2nd it does
@@secondary2nd they do get slaughtered lmao
"This process doesn't cause harm to the animals." --Reporter
And here comes the owner, "We used everything from this little animal. Nothing is wasted. Everything is transformed."
Poor snails 😞
Why? They seem like they live a good life till ready for whatever. I think I'd rather get a chance to enjoy life knowing one day I'll die then not live at all.
Now if people are salting and boiling them alive to eat? Screw that. Kill the animal as quickly as possible or don't eat em.
I've seen the way nature can be worse. In fact last time I seen a snail it was being eaten alive by ants.
Edit: Not sure about the whole acidic thing not hurting them though.
Hell
Bro, seriously trying to stop the nature of life like lions eat meat from live animals? Orcas eat penguins. Trying to stop them? Use your brain properly, would you?
@@nuryasmin8152 never seen a lion make a machine to drain the life resources out of something till it dies, or recovers just to do it all over again. Thanks for your logic.
@@nuryasmin8152 I forgot to lower myself and say "bro" like I'm in elementary. There you go Bro
She really said snails aren't hurt during the process, then we are told that they get killed after repeating the process a couple times
They weren't harmed, they simply slept too deep because of the ozonated water 😂😂😂
Let's not just kill the snails, instead let's torture them 2 or 3 times, then kill them. That's much more humane. 😳 🐌
It's more profitable though, that justify the process
@@haoxus9413 I get that. But don't try to sell it as a more humane treatment than instant death.
@@haoxus9413 no it doesn‘t, nothing justifies torturing animals.
@@briicksyy if you eat meat, ur torturing animals so don't even say nun
@@pinkperfumefairy9205 sooo.. Your point?
Honestly, I lost serious respect for this channel with this video. It really felt like some ham fisted manipulation. Snails enjoy being drenched in acid, it's actually like a skin treatment... I'm going to be very mindful of your messaging in future to see how long I stay subscribed.
I guess you haven't seen the mushroom farm video, have you?
@@jadecoolness101 I have and I'm not sure what you're talking about.
@@guymontag2948 you know, how the whole video was about "well we need migrant workers because they'll take a lower wage"
I thought that would be worse than killing snails
@@jadecoolness101 Ah, I guess our politics differ. It definitely supported a single position but from my understanding, it's a good thing for the workers and the farmers and there's no US citizens interested in the jobs anyway. Win, win.
@@guymontag2948 It's not a good thing for the workers because they're paid a disgustingly low wage. Nevermind livable wage, they barely make enough to just get to work.
The mushroom farmers also lets tonnes of mushroom just go to waste, because they don't have enough workers to harvest it all, so they evidently can AFFORD to pay more (given the amount they waste by choice), just choose not to.
Maybe our politics DO differ. I don't want illegal immigrants being taken advantage of because it lowers the value of citizen's labor since they accept low wages out of desperation, and it's just kinda gross to pay a human PENNIES for a full day's work
But... vinegar is an acid. So before, they would be harvested by dumping them in vinegar, an acid, and killed.
Now, they are rained on with acid ("acidic solution"), and harvested. Multiple times.
Such careful scripting only to make it sound even worse by being misleading
I just wasted 7 minutes of my life watching this video. I thought they're promoting harmless ways to extract slimes from snails. I wasn't ready for that evil twist. That's torture. What's the purpose of "not harming" the snails during extraction when you're going to kill them anyway? Just pure evil.
Are you vegan?
They eat them. It’s a snail farm.
Humans are top of the food chain for a reason
Crikey chill out mate you acting like they burned the Holy Jesus cross XD, they are just mindless slime bobs you'll live
@@dewolf123 So if there are creatures somewhere in the universe, who are a thousand times more intelligent than the "smartest" humans who ever lived, and tney come to earth for whafever reason, would that give them the right to torture us, kill us, abuse us, rape us, take our children away from us, use us for dairy, leather and meat, experiment (extremely, 100% cruelly) on us, and kill us, all against our will?
At first I was happy that it's not hurting the snail and seems like they are not being abused. But then it turned to the worse for them.
Damn you care about farmed snails. You must be vegan who cares about domestic animals and prefer not to have tasty food
They didn't explain why the snails are euthanized in the end though... I guess there's no going back after round 3; it must really take a lot out of them.
Go eat pills
Milk 'em dry, before you kill 'em
🥸 these guys are brutal yo~
I know, right? It’s like they emphasize how they keep the snails alive and then it’s off to make escargot. 🫣😵😂 Twist for sure.
lmao it’s amazing how these snails get to have a spa day and the video really said multiple times that the machine will not harm or kill the snails to extract the slime but after 2-3 times in the machine & snails go to the slaughter house. i was not expecting that
You have never tried escargot either, have you?
@@aaroniouse you replied to every comment here, stop being obsessed with snails and get a life
It's like a spa day
In acid
You can report the video for "Violent and Repulsive Content" and select " Animal Abuse". If enough of us do this, maybe we can make a difference
@@martinchamberlin3359 how many times do people have to tell you that doing that is not going to work it’ll only get the video taken down. I’m glad you care about the snails but just know it won’t help at all just the video might be taken down but then the snails will keep suffering it would help better if we sign where a campaign for animal cruelty or something similar.
Putting snails into acid: No!
Putting acid into snails: Yes!
I have been curious for years ever since I got a snail hand cream in a blind box. No one would talk about how they would extract the slime other than one company saying they let the snails run over screens. Like, how? And how do they increase slime production? Also, what happened to the snail AFTER? Did they become food? Guess my suspicions were right. I am glad this company allowed reporters in and consumers can learn more about what it is like. I don’t know if I will believe a cruelty free label on any snail beauty product.
There's many ways. Some will do it like in the video, some handle the snail one by one rubbing their belly for a few seconds until they released the mucin, some will have them roam on a mesh so that the mucin pass through it. Some will then use them for food, and some will keep them alive for their natural lifespan. It depends on the type of snail (some use the giant african ones for example).
Like with every other animal product I use or consume what I really care about is that they're are well kept during their life, are killed humanely without suffering and that nothing gets wasted.
@@HamelinSong Thank you for the additional info. I would feel better if it is the way you described and they have a good life. I wish businesses who rely on snails would be more transparent with their extraction methods.
Don’t believe cruelty free on any animal products :( no animal used for harvesting is given the right life
If the "stimulation" was meant to safely extract slime from the snails, the killing part is unnecessary.
This is just finding new ways to milk more out of a snail, just like cow. From milk to meat, right?
At first, they showed us the harmless way of extracting the slime from the snails, then suddenly they killed it all lol I was expecting that they will brought back to the farm
😂🤣😂🤣 Right…. (At least every single part is used, that is very important)
It seems the acid they sprayed to stimulate the snail kills them 😂
I think This is sick and selfish.. imagine killing them just for beauty and at the end of day our age wrinkles once we age.
Things just went from 0 to 100 real quick
Yeah wtf. Who cares how are they extracting the slime if they would then just go on to kill the snails.
Clean beauty is the opposite of “animal derived”. The vanity of people and their lack of concern for the beautiful creatures we share this earth with disgusts me.
I begin to loose faith in humanitybut glad to see other supporters for the animals
Yeah man that's so true . First I saw extraction of pearls from oyster , silk from silkworm cocoons then this , .....truly done with this world man 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
You’re welcome to skidaddle off to Mars or something, our species will be better off without you whiners 😂
I was using a face serum with snail mucin and honestly it did WONDERS for my skin. But once I realized how they were farmed, I stopped. It just wasn't worth it to me.
u will buy just about anything won't u
You can report the video for "Violent and Repulsive Content" and select " Animal Abuse". If enough of us do this, maybe we can make a difference
@@martinchamberlin3359 Wouldn't you rather people are educated and make their choice?
what exactly is the difference made here? that people don't know how their skincare product is made?
this video is merely documentation of a business that won't stop as long as there's demand
@@martinchamberlin3359 this would have literally no impact on the company making these products
do you still eat meat?
You can see when the acid sprays the snails, they cower into their shells to avoid it.
Animal cruelty. Better to just grow and kill the snails outright imo.
All I can see is that you need Jesus.
@@aaroniouse
Says the troll literally spamming people's comments with dumb garbage.
@@aaroniouse why ? Which one would Jesus do ? Kill an animal and then eat it, or harvest the meat by mutilate the said animal bit by bit but not kill it ?
Exactly, they're trying to frame this as a harmless thing but all it does is prolong their suffering
Funny how yall care about snails but now about other animals. The meat yall eat comes from abused and tortured animals but who cares right? As long as you are not hungry anymore, nothing matters. 🤢
There seems to be a trend with smearing animal gunk on your face for the sake of 'beauty' lately, I'm not surprised if people started smearing blood or poop on their faces if any dermatological benefits are discovered... like seriously, why do people care so much about what others think about them, and why do they need animals to die to cover up their insecurities? You're probably fine the way you are, just learn to respect yourself and come to terms with who you are at least.
Already have the blood, the vampire facials. It is an extraction of your own blood then the process continues. 🤷🏻♀️
Excellent comment, worthy of sharing your wise words with the little ones.
Mate, you sounds like a 15 year-old that hasn't set foot in the real world AT ALL.
People already do that. Have you not heard of these forms of beauty? Pretty sure they already put some kind of animal feces and people also use their own blood for facials. Beauty is the Wild West that pharmacuticlals used to be. I don’t know why we don’t have an FDA for beauty products yet.
Yes agree with you you know what am using for my skin ? Cold presed olive oil and coconut oil and rosehip oil
Why is there so much interest in "smearing" the snailmucin industry?
If they secrete the slime to protect them then its a self protection mechanism which its body produces due to stress and this is done for 3-4 times, its like asking you to secret a fluid at gun point! Well that's the way business is projected in a "seemingly" harmless way, human greed and selfishness is the cause of all destruction!
"We don't kill the snails to collect their slime."
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Vilified by snailtopia
They sell them as food. Gotta kill to eat.
@@RustMonsterMilk its not about the killing of the snails. Its about the hypocrisy. So much hype about not harming the snails because its good for marketing. All for show
I really just don’t get it. Just let your skin age naturally. You don’t need to torture snails to look better lol
Snail mucin is great for people, like myself idk about others tbh, with fungal acne (depending on the brand) and eczema. And if ya don't know both fungal acne and eczema are very itchy and sometimes very painful
i can get using it for medical reasons like healing or skin conditions because self prioritization/a last resort, but just for cosmetic reasons? I kinda dont get it if it's just to stop your aging. It'll only delay it by a little really, might as well just not use it.
Also snail slime doesn't work like a anti'-aging serum like they say, the effects that they described can be reproduced (with even better results) by using aloe gel, shea butter or retinol based products
@@antiromantic986 why not substitute with plants like, aloe vera (or avocado)? Aloe vera is very easy to grow.
Still cannot fathom why people wants to smear something yucky like snail slime on their face. urk
@@norakirayumi aloe makes me breakout and I hate avocados 😀
That's utterly gross and immoral. The cost of beauty should never be the life of an animal.
I like what this channel reports and educates on, hands down.
This clip is showing an industry that I find force-secete/tortures critters, here snails, for a cosmetic-superficial market for people.
There are soo many alternatives that are botanical, plant based, that do just fine.
This slime harvesting on an industrial scale is not needed - just more bad collective karma for humanity.
Just because they unable to tell their pain in your language that doesn't mean they are enjoying the acid bath. 🐌🚿
Exactly. I feel really bad for them 😖
Well said 😭😭❤️🌌🌠
Can we just say how absolutely weird it is.. that snail slime is applied to our faces? I honestly don’t get it
Have you also noticed that the west drinks milk that has come from the udders of freaking cows? They're a totally different species- like they don't even have hands! - they have four stomachs and hooves for christ sake. Normality is such a relative concept.
Yes and snails carries parasites
@@veiserexab1428
All kinds of bacterias too...
Comically, it makes sense, if you are God...
Yes. What's so hard to get?
is this a joke ?? not harming them ?? extract all slime then kill them ...
Generally, vetrinarians only "euthenise" a pet animal if the animal would die without any intervention in less than a week anways. I doubt that there was anything medically wrong with the snails they dump into the ozonated water. Lack of honesty in news reporting is more what I hope that people will be upset about than the actual snails deaths.
finally someone said it 👏👏👏
It’s a snail farm. They eat the snails.
...all I'm going to say is that my mother raised pet snails for a few years, which she'd handle them regularly, and she had some of the nicest skin on her hands and arms I'd seen in a woman her age. Does that mean snail slime is beneficial to the skin? I don't know for certain, but I can only claim what I saw.
Yes. Snail Slime is called Mucin, and Mucin is good for the skin.
It depends. Does everyone in your family also have nice skin on their hands and arms?
That's basically how it was discovered as an effective skin care product. Snail farmers would have the most beautiful skin.
@@Durka-Durka No. Most have sun damaged skin on their arms. My mother comes from a farming and gardening family. That's why I noticed it.
It's a "spa treatment" for them it's acid that rains on them to activate there defense system. But they don't kill them for the slime until they can't use them anymore then they kill them for food.
Great marketing! “We don’t kill the snails anymore to extract the slime”, proceeds to milk them 3-5 times then euthanised them
I think a lot of people missed the part where they eat the snails. Eating snails requires you remove the mucus beforehand. This is just a more ethical and efficient way of doing so.
not ethical but more efficient.
You are the first sane person I've seen in this comment section.
@@shubhammeena5177 ethical compared to the old way.
Idk about ethical but I suppose it is efficient and more profitable...
@@RustMonsterMilk in what sense dying immediately its worse and less ethical than being poisoned after being sprayed with acid 3 days.
With that "torture and kill" kind of process, the product is likely lacking any property besides damaging ones.
But the agony adds so much nutrients
Thank you I will specifically look up for snail products so I can never but them.
I think you meant to write, "never buy them" instead of "never but them"
Little spa for snail is so not true. It's more cruel process than traditional method inorder to extract maximum slime from each snail.
Got any better ideas?
Why are people upset over this? It's efficient and zero waste harvest, and it's no different from harvesting thousands of domesticated animals like silkworms or chickens.
I'm still grossed out by the bacterial potential that's completely irreversible..... 🤢
People flip out over these things but I promise they never actually research anything about the make-up, materials, foods, etc... Come from, how it's made, etc.... It's just something for them to outrage over for a few days and then forget about.... They rarely understand the reality behind things.
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@Boa-Noah No, the Americans just dunk chicken in chlorine baths and then cut their dead off - or, if they are male chickens, they often crush them or gas them at birth.
People are upset because the narrator repeatedly made a big deal about not killing them, only for them to be euthanized a few minutes later. It's misleading and totally false.
If they had been up front about it, and not tried to somehow say the process is better than it actually is, then the video would have been much better.
@@crazy808ish the process is actually genius since this gives you more slime with less snails and gives you a perfectly edible one at the end too. snail are food not a dog (unless you korean or Chinese or from some African tribes.) using less snails should be something to be celebrated or you prefer to kill 3 instead of one all 3 would die in acid anyway.
@@lucaskp16 I have no problem with the process. I have a problem with how Business Insider decided to say it.
When the entire world is shifting towards cosmetics labeled “animals were not harmed”, you promote a process that does exactly that! And then call it “snails were not harmed”. What a pile of BS!
Sounds like some kind of scam to be honest. Beauty industry is very VERY fond of fake science and buzz words, and I suspect this "snail fad" isn't based on anything serious.
What is it with you people?
@@aaroniouse I don't know what is it?
@@aaroniouse
Lol here you are again. What it is with YOU? Do you like getting all pissed off over comments you don't agree with? "Sucker for punishment", as they call them, or are you just dense and have some weird vendetta against people trying to act more humanely toward another species in general?
@@aaroniouse You people?
@@garretth8224 This dude is really going "you people" but I've seen them in I think 5 different sub-comment sections on this video as I scroll down
and at this point I ain't even sure what they're going off at UTUB for rofl
I wonder how many of the commenters who complain about the treatment of the snails will eventually end up buying those beauty products.
None. And you should stop twisting brains with your manipulative text.
@@kreterakete You can't know that. You just hope you're right.
No
None anymore. Was considering but after this...
@@nialasarram oh, I was not willing to bought these snail products because I don't need them for now, but I'm going to eat meat tomorrow!
I never knew snails were used like this.
At least the suffering of snails were a lot quicker in the early days, now this has becomes essentially extended torture and killing them.
Imma be real the popcorn really does taste better while scrolling through the comment section lol.
A sincere suggestion to Business Insider " please stop promoting and investing in such contents where animals are harmed all for the sake of sense gratification of external beauty".
Makes my stomach upset seeing such people.
Honestly they're farm grown, much better than people who go hunt down wild Snails for business. We do the same thing for cows, ducks, chickens, pigs, etc
Say "no" to veganism✊✊✊
Hoooo what a compassionate person.....no problem when people are killed for what they......
@@lightofheavenbrawlstar1452 Why?
"We stimulate the snails to harvest their slime"
Oh cool, so we're all just putting snail jizz on our faces.
You know respect for at least using all of the snail and not tossing out potentially useful things
ikr, snails taste awesome when cooked correctly. My local buffet serves snails in chili sauce
So that new spongebob movie wasn’t joking around when the dude wanted gary for his slime
So you want Elon musk to send them in space like roadster?
Simone Sampo : We treats our snail as if they were in hot spa
Also Simone : Nothing is wested .Not even snail shells.
I wonder how many people will be as upset when they learn that silkworms are literally boiled alive to extract the silk in their cocoons
Well, gotta get the silk out one way or another without the larvae getting in the way .
I was horrified to hear that they kill them anyway. Not to mention the fact that there is little to prove the effectiveness of the products to begin with.
Thanks for supporting the channel.
Lets be real here, what are they supposed to do? If they were to release millions of snails each year, it would be horrible for the ecology of the area. Euthanizing the snails and turning them into nourishment for thousands of people is probably the best/least damaging outcome.
Cough syrup? I don't think I wanna know what that tastes like. And glad they mentioned K-beauty being already very involved in snail biz & for much cheaper than $60
They are lying about the acidic solution not doing harm to those snails.
Why don't they use snails without shells, i think those would yield more.
you mean like slugs?
@@braunarsch yes, but where I'm from we have both slugs and slugs that look like snails without shell. There could be some reason behind not using slugs for this process.
Homosapien has acid in their body, but why ain't it harms them as well?
I've had both snails and slugs as pets, snails tend to be out in the open on plants, and slugs like to hid in crevices. It is probably easier to harvest snails.
Both snails and slugs mucus is known to contain deadly parasites in a lot of cases, these companies don't explain any sterilizing processes so I'm kinda concerned.
As much as I hate to see this happening to snails.. people are horrible and will not stop. The world is evolving and so is our skincare. Who knows maybe in the next few years it will get so bad that they will hurt bigger and more endangered animals for skincare. I understand that it is horrible but everything comes to an end eventually.
And no I don’t support this so stop assuming I do.
Ok and?
@@Kosherpickles What?
@@BeautifulxMistakee low iq, ignore
Yes if your a vein freak who just can't bear to see themselves yes makes sense to me.
So? Lol.
Ur probably gonna go back to using ur snail slime moisturizer after typing this comment
‘It will end up in skincare products all over the world’ I will never touch any skincare products then.
That's right ladies, bodily fluids can give you
the complexion of an angel.😇
😆 you're something else haha 😄
I spilled my drinks when they suddenly killed the snails after milking them 4 times. Lol.
At first I was like, wow cool they can breed it again, then it just a prank.
The video linked is very much the process developed in Italy and not the process that COSRx use according to them. If COSRx do use this process for harvesting mucin then they having been lying which would be of great concern on so many fronts. I like to occasionally use the COSRx Advanced Snail 92 All in one cream in the evening as my moisturiser. This although appears "gloopy" to the touch glides effortlessly onto the skin. I find that snail mucin certainly helps with hydration and does gives me a clearer softer skin tone. As for skin aging I think it would be very difficult to prove any one particular product I use helps with that unless I used it consistently without other products.
I don't use products that I am aware are produced in a way that involves animal cruelty OR whose profits are directed towards companies who sanction animal testing. I think however, that there is an awful lot of hypocrisy, which I loathe, with regards to animal cruelty as many may not use skincare produced in such a manner but wouldn't bat an eyelid knowing that some of their medication/drugs are tested or even produced directly in a manner involving animal cruelty. I personally don't believe my health justifies cruelty to another creature and don't think I am any more important to this world than they are.
I accept we all have differing opinions and each of us has to answer to our own conscience wherever that may lead.
Have you found anywhere where cosrx actually disclose how they get the mucin? Cause I think they are lying, I can't find transparent info from them anywhere on this apart from them saying it doesn't harm them (and the way cosrx has refered to giving their snails a spa makes me wonder if it is the same machine as these guys also pertain that the acidic solution does not harm the snails). If they actually were getting the mucin from just letting the snails roam around on a meshwith no stimulus they would be getting so little out of them that the prices definately would be luxury.
I use the snail mucin 96 and the snail mucin 92 cream is coming. I feel bad. Do you know how COSRX extracts snail mucin?
The snails are usually killed by pouring salt or vinegar on them. Here they just sprinkle vinegar on them to stimulate the mucus glands which is like punching a man till he bleeds. I don't mind the fact that you are killing them but there must be atleast some honesty in the script.
imagine being dosed with "acid" and then being told "it does not harm you"
Every time I hear "institute" I start thinking everyone is a synth.
That's a solid comment right there.
@@hermaeusmora2945 Thanks, please don't spear me through my spinal cord with a tentacle. I just wanted dragon aspect. D:
Imagine living next to a snail farm and getting a unwanted snail infestations in your garden.
The change is that once they used to kill them, now they first torture and exploit them and then kill them, sounds more humane to the insider team maybe🤦🏻
The poor snails looked like they were being tortured.. They were moving way too fast in this machines unlike their natural pace of movement.
You are incorrect. The cereal you eat suffers more.
You can say that based on just a few seconds of footage?
We’ve got an expert here
@@crestraizn another one here i see
No they can move that fast when they want to.
Now i know how slime is made
I just watched a different video about this featuring the same man from 5 years ago and in that video they really hyped up this whole thing but they didn’t say what happened after the mucus is harvested. The video just ended. So out of curiosity I watched this and am very saddened by what I have learned. The other video was some false advertising.
Honestly we need to have more emphasis on testing these products correctly, it's one thing to cause harm for some benefit to humanity, it's so much worse if we're doing it to gain no benefit at all.
But they are used as a gourmet appetizer. I understand if you are a strict vegetarian but if not there is a reason as snails are eaten and at a high price.
Ordered Snail Rescue from Amazon and a rash I had struggled with for weeks disappeared in two days!!
Poor little guys. Definitely snail exploitation.
I clean my lettuce very well to avoid rat lung worm disease from it being passed to lettuce from snails and slugs and people are smearing it on their faces to have smooth skin???? 🤦♀️
Yes
Why only 3 to 4 times usage before euthanizing them?🤔 especially if you claim the snail is not harmed during the slime extraction process 😒
They probably don't produce much after that
440ml from just a batch of snails is quite a bit
@@acidset then that would be they contradicted themselves about not harming the snail. Since the slime is produced as a defense mechanism. If no more slime then the snail defense is damaged 💡
@@esils its just basic cost\benefit. The snails are actually just leased from the farmers to the skin care company. Instead of taking the snails back and having to pay for all of that packaging and transportation and storage, the farmers can then sell the snails for escargot or burgers or whatever else. Its just makes more sense economically to do it that way
@@Ben-xf7uy there is still an unexplained limit or restriction to the amount of times slime is extracted. The issue is whether their claim of not harming the snail is true. Your response does not address the issue.
@@esils obviously i don't know the nuances of the entire thing. But i did address it, you just didn't understand it. The facility where they make the cosmetic lotion probably doesn't have the food or the equipment needed to keep them alive. Its more profitable to use them, then harvest the meat and shell. Think about it from a business perspective and not an emotional one
I was watching this more in the background and then read comments and went back and watched it again where she says it doesn't hurt them but then kill them and saw people scooping their innards out. Wtf? Poor snails. Also I've heard of eating snails but snail eggs??
I thought after 3 to 4 extractions they're then released back on to farms where they can graze and live out the rest of their life's. But atlas they're killed off :(
Poor things. It's a bit uneasy knowing they end up as food for our consumption. I wouldn't eat 😕
I wouldn't eat because it's gross
Considering the amount of all kinds of chemicals put on cosmetics, no wonder a lot of women have to worry about many types of cancer; ie skin or breast cancer.
Skin cancer comes from uv rays damaging your dna and is exacerbated by our faulty ozone layer, has nothing to do with cosmetics.
He literally invented a torturing device to spray acid rain onto the snails.
This encourages me to start my salamander farming business, thank you.
We should just put snails 🐌 on our faces and let them slime around on our faces
get a pet snail, slime up your face whenever you want, put him back in the terrarium for the rest of they day, feed him old cabbage 🙂
i put slugs on my face. guess what happened? i look like a snail now
Let's inject snail plasma on our bums and become snails
People actually do that lol. They even showed it in the video.
I wonder if the salt content in sweat or other fluids from humans on their skin is enough to irritate the snail though. I'd imagine they clean the area.
I remember them mentioning they add some other things to the beauty product they showed being filled in the video, like fragrance, but I don't recall what the other ingredients mentioned were. I don't think it's JUST the snail slime they're saying has the effects they claim the beauty product does, just that the snail slime is basically the star of the show.
Who are they kidding! Those snails are being put into The Cone of Silence to communicate with Control, in the everlasting fight against Kaos. There are a million snails ready to fight, everyday. Would you believe….a pail of snails, and 500 fiddler crabs? Would you believe a plate of escargot, and some really hot butter?
Snail Concentration Camps like:
(One young snail): Boys, hooray, we're going to SPA today!!
(An older snail): I think today is my third time...
I bet lots of men would be happy to provide this slime as well
I definitely agree we need to take these snails to space on a rocket. Maybe we can send a snail torture machine into space as well in case we encounter anything we want to use it on
Are you with PETA, or some snail-rights movement funded by the CCP? NPR will distract you from reality. Prayer is all we really have.
What they eat affects the slime. Giving them an unhealthy diet the slime doesn’t have the maximum nutrients.
They feed the snail grains and greenery tough, doesn't sound unhealthy
@@Tsuruchi_420 Yeah right, you didn't hear what she said about their food? They feed them cabbage spinach and a "mixture" of flours from soya and corn and other stuff.
Well soya and corn it is produced mainly in USA and China and they are genetically modified! Well don't expect to be the other way around because simply the globally demand amount cannot supply those huge amounts. If you are not growing your self your corn and soya then everything from the rest is cancerogenic, stay away from from them. You want snails? Go to nature and pick up few from your grandmother farm or in forest. Do not trust anything that's coming from an animal farm even if it's labelled Organic.
@@warrior4999 dude, genetic modified plants just get DNA from different plants grafted into their own, some get DNA from a few species of animals too, none of Wich are carcinogenic or whatever, and you're right, without genetic engineering large amounts of grain could not me produced to the scale we need to feed everyone, so it's not only non-carcinogenic, but also nescessary
This is like the silk worm business all over again
Wait how is dumping acid on the snails to engage their defense mechanism a spa? I don’t remember torture being on a spa menu
did it mention how the snails were stimulated in the snail spa? Cuz I doubt they release snail goo when they are having a good time lol
They were sprayed with an acidic solution that "doesn't harm them" but "triggers a defensive mechanism"...
Did you watch the video, or did you just feel "stimulated" to troll it?
Dunno but some snails can also be used by flatworms for completing their life cycle.
Wow. Watched the ENTIRE video (its under the title of this one), and i was SO relieved to see THEY DIDNT KILL THEM to extract the slime! But THEN, then at the end, they said no part is wasted and the snails are crushed, dissected, and sold for their shells and as escargot and other delicacies. Oh, and same with the eggs- apparently snail caviar is some elite 💩
NOW I AM SAD AGAIN 😢
Loving how everyone is pretending like they give AF about the snails getting killed 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Where did you think the other products they are used for came from?? The f-ing sky???