When most people think of acne, scar and minor wound treatment the last thing they would ever consider picking up and rubbing on their skin (especially their face!) is the bottom of a snail. Yet that is exactly where the inspiration for Elicina cream came from.

In the early 1980s a Chilean snail farmer noticed that the small wounds on the hands of his field workers healed at an unusually rapid rate, and that almost all who worked extensively handling the snails had very supple and smooth skin on their hands.

This fascinating discovery lead scientists to study these particular snails, and what they found was far from creepy. It turns out that the