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10 Weirdest Beauty Products In The World

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Ten beauty treatments so strange you’ll double-check the ingredient list.

Forget the drugstore aisle. TheThings Celebrity’s countdown “10 Weirdest Beauty Products In The World” runs through a list of skincare and spa treatments that sound more like dares than pampering — nightingale droppings, live snails, and injected blood all make the cut. The common thread is a beauty industry willing to sell almost anything if it promises tighter, brighter, younger-looking skin.

• The “Bird Poop Facial,” rooted in the traditional Japanese Geisha Facial (Uguisu no fun), uses powdered nightingale droppings mixed with rice bran as a natural exfoliant and brightener — a practice originally used by geishas and kabuki actors to strip off heavy lead-based makeup.
• High-end spas such as Shizuka New York offer the treatment for around $180 a session, paired with sanitizing ultraviolet light, and it crossed into the mainstream on the back of celebrity endorsements from Victoria Beckham and Tom Cruise.
• The countdown also spotlights 24K gold face masks marketed for anti-aging and firming, alongside fringe treatments like live snail facials, bee venom cream, vampire (PRP) facials, and fish pedicures.

The Bird Poop Facial’s Surprising Pedigree

The bird poop facial isn’t a modern gimmick dreamed up for a viral video — it dates back centuries in Japan, where geishas and kabuki performers needed a way to remove thick, lead-based makeup without damaging their skin. Powdered nightingale droppings, blended with rice bran, were used as a gentle abrasive and brightening agent long before “exfoliant” was a marketing word. That history is part of why the treatment still gets taken seriously at spas today rather than dismissed outright.

Shizuka New York is one of the spas that turned the ritual into a paid service, charging roughly $180 per session and running clients under sanitizing ultraviolet light as part of the process. The price tag and the sterilization step are the details that separate it from a novelty stunt — it’s positioned as a legitimate, if unusual, facial.

Powdered nightingale droppings, rice bran, and a UV light for sanitation — $180 a session at Shizuka New York.

What pushed the Geisha Facial into wider conversation was celebrity interest. Victoria Beckham and Tom Cruise have both been tied to the treatment through public endorsements, giving a centuries-old kabuki skincare ritual a second life among Western beauty aficionados chasing the next unconventional fix.

Gold Masks and Other Luxury Extremes

Sitting at the pricier end of the countdown is the 24K gold face mask, sold on the promise of anti-aging benefits, firming, and general skin rejuvenation. There’s no shortage of spas and skincare lines leaning on precious metal as a selling point, and the mask has become a go-to example of how far the industry will stretch “luxury” to justify a premium price.

The gold mask fits a pattern the video keeps returning to: an ingredient that sounds impressive on a label, aimed squarely at consumers already primed by viral wellness trends to try whatever promises results conventional lotions can’t deliver.

Snails, Venom, and Blood: The Fringe Treatments

Beyond the gold and the bird droppings, the list dips into treatments that read more like a dare than a spa menu. Snail mucin cream — made from the secretions of snails and marketed for wrinkle reduction and skin regeneration — has an even stranger cousin in the snail facial, where live snails crawl directly across a client’s face, leaving slime behind as they move.

Bee venom cream, said to boost blood flow and collagen production, comes with an obvious caveat for anyone with a bee allergy. The vampire facial, better known clinically as a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment, involves drawing a patient’s own blood and reinjecting it into the face to stimulate collagen. Rounding out the stranger end of the countdown: charcoal toothpaste marketed for whitening despite dentists’ warnings about enamel abrasion, fish pedicures where tiny fish nibble away dead skin, whiskey aftershave sold for its astringent properties, and fish egg face cream built around caviar extract for anti-aging.

Every one of these treatments has found paying customers somewhere, which is really the point of the countdown — beauty aficionados have shown they’ll try nearly anything if there’s a promise of tighter skin or a brighter complexion attached to it, the same impulse that’s fueled plenty of celebrity-driven wellness crazes before.