Foam Slime Bubbles into Damien Desrocher when he rubbed one of the thousands of snails he kept at home in his backyard.
The 28-year-old French Artisan began to use gastropod fluid to make soap, which he sold in the local market, in December.
“Everything in the dexterity how you tickle,” Desrocher said when he extracted mucus, noting that the process did not kill animals.
“I just touched it with my finger, you see it’s not cruel, it’s simple.”
The former Air Force computer technician, Desrocher decided to start a snail farming in the North French wahagnies city as a form of “back to nature”.
“Once you observe and see how snails behave, they are actually very charming,” he said.
“Absolutely the animal I love.”
He has collected a total of 60,000 snails.
When they entered the reproductive season, most were transferred to larger sites, while around 4,000 were stored at home at his home to harvest mucus.
The single snail will produce about 2 grams of mucus, meaning that he needs around 40 snails to produce 80 grams – enough to produce 15 100 gram soap bars.
“We need quite a lot of snails,” he said.
Although quite rare in Western cosmetics, slime snails have become more common ingredients elsewhere, including in Korean beauty products, recorded for anti-aging properties.
Desrocher said the slime contained collagen molecules and elastin, which had anti-aging and skin properties.
Snails also naturally use their mucus to repair their shell if it is damaged, he said.
Desrochher said he aims to produce 3,000 bars of Snail mucus soap in his first year of production.
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