Influencer’s poop face mask alarms doctors: ‘People are getting too extreme on the internet’
Doctors are pooh-poohing this feces face mask.
Brazilian model Débora Peixoto has been ripped by medics over a bizarre skincare routine that involves caking her face in her own poop.
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve done in my life,” Peixoto, 31, told Jam Press of her stinky skincare method, which she recently shared on Instagram.
The influencer, who previously went viral for putting period blood on her skin to soften it, said she decided to don the fecal face mask after reading online that it could “prevent aging.”
The Instagram footage shows the content creator, who boasts over 650,000 Instagram followers, opening a container of her feces and smearing it all over her face as if applying a mud mask.
The beauty then pinches her nose closed with a clothespin to “mask” the stench and leaves the excremental exo-layer on for several minutes before washing it off.
At the end of the video, Peixoto flaunts her glowing face for the camera.
“It’s worked for me and my skin has stopped flaking!” gushed Peixoto, who raised eyebrows last year after marrying her much-older cousin.
Experts were quick to slam the bizarre beatification technique, claiming that the health issues outweigh the alleged benefits.
“Of all the skincare ‘trends’, this is one of the strangest I have ever come across,” declared Dr. Sophie Momen, a consultant dermatologist at the Cadogan Clinic in London. “There is absolutely no scientific benefit to your skin in using feces as a face mask.”
She added that this manure makeup can make the partaker susceptible to bacterial and viral infections, food poisoning, as well as “redness and discomfort.”
Her colleague, plastic surgeon Mr. Tunc Tiryaki, seconded her PSA, warning: “Feces contain a plethora of bacteria, viruses, and parasites, including E. coli, Salmonella and helminths, which can cause serious infections and diseases.
“Applying feces to your face can introduce these pathogens into your body through small cuts, abrasions or mucous membranes, leading to severe skin infections or systemic illnesses,” added the doctor, who urged people to use modern skin products instead.
The commentariat also turned their noses up at Peixoto’s crappy cosmetic routine.
“People are getting too extreme on the internet. This is worrisome,” lamented one critic, while another wrote: “This is why aliens don’t talk to us.”
But while doctors diss the human defecation skincare hack, some cosmetologists have previously floated fertilizing one’s face with bird droppings.
They claim the waste contains chemicals that break down dead cells to make skin shine.
