The World's Strangest Spa Treatments / For women

Space-age light capsules, sake baths, and flesh-nibbling fish: today’s health and beauty services are wackier than ever.

Once you’ve changed into a disposable paper robe, an attendant leads you to a room containing a futuristic, egg-shaped pod. Opening the lid, she motions for you to climb into the molded foam interior; then, after pressing some buttons on a Battlestar Galactica–looking console, she closes you inside. Suddenly, the glass lamps surrounding you start to glow with white light…steam pumps from hidden jets, and the entire capsule starts to vibrate. You can’t help but wonder: are you about to be blasted into hyperspace?

Hopefully, the only parts of you being blitzed into the stratosphere are your fat cells. As space-age as it may seem, the function of this Oxy-LED light capsule, found at the Med-Spa Clinic at Tunbridge Wells, England, is simply (and allegedly) to help you lose weight. Welcome to the weird new world of health and beauty treatments...

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