9 Weirdest Beauty Treatments

Jana Tymlova, left, enjoys a soak in the Real Beer Baths launched by the family brewery Chodovar in Chodova Plana, Czech Republic.
The bath consists of water and mineral water IL-SANO, but the major bath ingredient is dark beer which is produced in a traditional way based on the copyright original method and made by the main brewer of the family brewery only.
Patsy Fisher, 42, of Crofton, Maryland, centre, checks on the progress of KaNin Reese, 32, of Washington, with Tracy Roberts, 33, of Rockville, Maryland, left, as they indulge in a fish pedicure treatment at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, Virginia.
Body technician Bree Sarver demonstrates the pixie tangerine and pomegranate treatment on Andrea Olson at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, California.
Tangerine oil is said to tone the skin, and kill certain skin diseases caused by bacteria. It is also used to treat acne and pimples.

France's Franck Ribery sits in a cryotherapy chamber at the team's training center after a training session at the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Kircha near Donetsk, Ukraine.
Similar to ice baths, the low temperature helps to decrease muscle inflammation, pain and spasms

An employee pastes gold leaves onto a client's face at the Viet My beauty salon in Hanoi.
Viet My is one of a small number of salons in Vietnam that provides 24k gold leaf face mask therapy, said to help make skin whiter. A single facial costs 1.8 million Vietnam dong (US$86.41).
A model demonstrates the use of Umo Inc.'s 24-carat gold leaf 'Gold Facial Treatment' at the Beautyworld Japan 2007 trade fair in Tokyo. The treatment costs 30, 000 yen (US$250).

Snails crawl on the face of a woman during a demonstration of a new beauty treatment at Clinical-Salon Ci:z.Labo in central Tokyo.
Clinical-Salon Ci:z.Labo, which began the unique facial earlier this week, offers the 10,500 yen (US$110) five-minute session with the snails as an optional add-on for customers who apply for a 'Celeb Escargot Course', an hour-long treatment routine of massages and facials based on products made from snail slime that costs 24,150 yen.
According to a beautician at the salon, the snail slime is believed to make one's skin supple as well as remove dry and scaly patches. An esthetician places snails on a woman's face.
We wonder how it feels to have a snail crawling on your face?
A woman receives a chocolate facial treatment at a chocolate exhibition in Mexico City.
It must smell so good having a chocolate facial!
A woman receives a chocolate facial treatment for 600 pesos (US$12.56) at a beauty salon in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
How about a snake massage?

Spa owner Ada Barak gives a snake massage treatment, where she lets loose the reptiles on the body of customer Liz Cohen, at her spa in the northern communal village of Talmey El'Azar.
Barak uses California and Florida King snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes in her treatments, which she said were inspired by her belief that once people get over any initial misgivings, they find physical contact with the creatures to be soothing.