{"id":342785,"date":"2015-01-13T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/uncategorized-hk\/unusual-ingredients-beauty-products-342785.html"},"modified":"2019-05-04T04:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:31:47","slug":"unusual-ingredients-beauty-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/hk\/beauty-hk\/beauty-buys-hk\/unusual-ingredients-beauty-products-342785.html","title":{"rendered":"Strange Skincare: 10 Unusual ingredients in your beauty products"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>It's no secret the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/beauty\/whats-new\/reverse-tanning-comes-koreas-latest-beauty-craze-63579.html\">beauty industry <\/a>occasionally ventures into the dark, unusual road and emerges on the other end with a whole new arsenal of ingredients to potentially harness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/beauty\/beauty-buys\/k-beauty-skincare-41342.html\">in skincare<\/a> and makeup products. Whether or not the ingredients sound appealing or make you squirm in your seat is ultimately a whole other question because, hey, as long as it works, who's to say no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/beauty\/whats-new\/crabtree-evelyn-damask-rose-44096.html\">to good skin?<\/a>\u00a0Most of these ingredients have either been used in traditional skincare remedies of the yester years or conjured up in laboratories afters intense research.<\/p> <p>From the now relentlessly tried and tested snail slime to bird droppings, horse fat, eggs and garlic, here's the list of beauty products that contain one unusual ingredient as their star.<\/p> <p>Now, the question is, which do we try first?<\/p> <p><em>Tarandip Kaur<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From snail slime to bird droppings, horse fat, eggs and garlic, here are just some of the squirm-worthy ingredients that are often boasted for all their skincare goodness. 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