This may look like a chocolate bath to most -- wouldn’t it be wonderful if there really were such a thing called chocolate bath -- when in fact this man is bathing in crude oil, literally. Although Western experts say that it may cause cancer, the local doctors claim that it relieves joint pain, cures psoriasis, calms nerves and beautifies skin.A snippet from New York Times:
Outside this improbable spa in a remote part of the former Soviet Union, oil rigs bob on a hardscrabble plain of rocks, shrubs and rusting industrial equipment that could easily pass for a stretch of West Texas.
Inside, Ramil Mutukhov, a lanky 25-year-old, prepares to be pampered and preened, scrubbed and peeled — in a bath of pure crude oil.
He undresses, hangs his trousers and sweatshirt on a peg, pulls off socks and underwear and folds a wad of brown paper towels. He will need them later. Then he steps into a mess of what looks, smells and flows like used engine oil. “It’s wonderful,” he says, up to his neck in oil in a sort of human lube job.
Link & Image: New York Times
Previously: Uptight? Try a dip in a Japanese wine spa
Tags: Crude Oil | Black Gold | Engine Oil | Bath
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