If you haven’t noticed, I do like the “GREEN” philosophy… specifically the reduce, reuse, recycle mentality.  I just believe that if we can, recycle we should! 

Anyway, thought this was interesting in the Grand Rapids Press.  “Carp rid human feet of scaly skin”.  You can check  it out in July 27th edition, front section.  Talk about not wasting and putting things to good use…

The article talks about a spa owner that uses carp called garra rufa (or doctor fish) for a pedicure treatment.  The carp go and eat off all the dead skin cells on the feet, eliminate callouses, and soften the skin.  I thought it was interesting that someone was willing to have little fishes nimble on their feet.  But according to the article, an athlete that tried it said that since she was an athlete, she couldn’t believe how well this system worked.  “This was the first time somebody got rid of my calluses completely.” (Barakat, GR Press).

I don’t know if this is considered green or not but it made me wonder if these fish can get rid of scaly, dead skin what’s next… A NEW FACIAL METHOD???