When it comes to facials, a safe principle is that if it’s good enough for Jennifer Aniston, it’s good enough for the rest of us. And it turns out JA is up for pretty well anything. When an aesthetician recommended she try an injection based on salmon sperm, popular in Korea, the fearless woman was up for it. “First of all”, she told the Wall Street Journal, “I said, ‘Are you serious? How do you get salmon’s sperm?’”. My thoughts entirely. However, according to JA, after she had the facial, she didn’t notice much difference.
Well, I tried it too. But to address the important question first, no salmon was interfered with to get the stuff. It’s dead already, so the sperm is a mere byproduct of salmon steaks. I did ask whether the salmon was wild or farmed, but no one seems to know. I have in the past put snail slime on my face, but this sounds gross. The thing about salmon, though, is that its DNA and ours are similar. And by the time the sperm has been reduced to polymerised polynucleotides and treated to remove allergens, it’s not a bit fishy. It appears to help with wound healing, stimulate collagen and elastin production (which makes skin firm) and attract water molecules (which plumps up the skin).
