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Here's butter in your eye

man receiving a ghee eye treatmentThese days, many of the beauty treatments you can get at day spas and salons include edible ingredients. People get salt scrubs, seaweed wraps and honey facials all the time. However, have you ever heard of a ghee eye treatment?

According to Daily Candy, there is a spa in suburban Philadelphia that offers an Ayurvedic treatment called Netra Basti, in which a ring of dough is placed around the eye and the well is then filled with gently warmed clarified butter. Once the ghee has been poured, the individual receiving the treatment slowly opens their eye so that their optic nerve can get a buttery bath.

It is said to be an excellent treatment for strained vision, itchiness, dryness and glaucoma. It is also smoothes the wrinkles around the eyes. As we head into allergy season, I can see how it could be good for your pollen-inflamed peepers as well.

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KF

10-08-2008 @6:58PM KF said... Gee (or is that Ghee?) whiz! After we're done with that treatment, we can head over to The Yunessan Spa in Hakone, Japan, where you soak in a tub filled with ramen noodles, or take in a beer-barrel soak as well. Gives you meaning to "You Are What You Eat." More on Extreme Spa Treatments: http://www.spacast.com/2008/09/extreme-spa-tre.html
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dea

10-09-2008 @12:05AM dea said... Ever read the warning labels on condoms? Do not use oils? Ever think why that is? Not only does it weaken the condom but it increases INFECTION. Oils do not belong there!

I'm waiting for the first lawsuit for a serious eye infection. Blephritis infected with anaerobic bacteria here I come!
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janey

10-09-2008 @1:03AM janey said... @dea, the reason why you don't use oils with condoms is because oils break down latex, THEREFORE increasing risk of pregnancy/infection. Not because oils directly increase a possibility of infection.

If the butter does not contain any particularly harmful bacteria in abnormal concentrations, and assuming "clean" butter doesn't do anything to the eye, this shouldn't be a problem. That's a lot of "ifs", but claiming that reasonably bacteria-free butter would directly increase possibilities of infections is ridiculous.
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Lauren

10-09-2008 @6:54AM Lauren said... I think the only real safety issue here is a strained tongue from trying to lick your eye.
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Lauren

10-09-2008 @6:58AM Lauren said... I think the only real safety issue is a strained tongue from trying to lick your own eye.
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Gary

10-09-2008 @12:59PM Gary said... So, you're eye will feel better but what about the lovely ring of pimples that you'll probably end up with surrounding your eye from being encased in grease for the treatment?
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