Nightingale poo

Metro reports, via Arbroath:

While millions of women are snapping up age-defying skin creams, the latest miracle cure for a sagging face has just arrived – nightingale poo.

The bird droppings, applied in a 90- minute facial, are packed with an enzyme called guanine – an amino acid which heals the skin, experts claim.

The treatment has already been used by Japanese geishas to remove make-up and leave the skin silky smooth, while monks polish their shaved heads with the droppings.

Image from Birdfinders

Comments

[MC]

This just in: Nightingales have been put on the endangered species list. Seems intrepid entreprenuers have been force feeding the poor critters massive amounts of laxative and they've been croaking by the millions due to dehydration.

Guess they'll have to go back to semen as the skin treatment do jour.

[gail]

I've heard that the big problem is lax enforcement.

[CraigC]

Yannow, I'm pretty sure you can get guanine from other sources. In this case, it should be called guanoanine.

[joated]

I like birds and I shave my head and I've been told that having a bird poo on you is, in some cultures, considered a sign of good luck, but I'll be d*mned if I would smear this stuff on my newly shaven pate.