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These 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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Looking for a seasonal cocktail that doesn't involved dry ice and a punchbowl? Then you might want to check out this concoction of honey, port wine and pomegranate juice that mixologist Christina Cunningham conjured up for Nectar, a restaurant right outside of Philadelphia. Just be warned, this isn't one that you can whip up at the spur of the moment, it requires a week for the fruit to marinate in the wine. The recipe is after the jump.

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