A beauty blogger from Wendover, Buckinghamshire in the U.K. posted a video of her facial regimen on YouTube. Tracy Kiss, 28, shared that she has sensitive skin and in order to soothe her delicate face, she uses sperm.
Kiss, a single mother of two and a former glamor model, said she rubs the sperm on her face daily to prevent rosacea, a type of skin condition that causes redness and flushing, according to Cosmopolitan U.K.
The beauty blogger swears by this routine in helping manage the skin eruptions. "I think people are concerned with the thought of putting semen on their face, but actually it's a very natural and healthy thing to do," Kiss said, according to Daily Mail.
A friend supplies Kiss with the sperm and it is kept in a container. Kiss clarified she is "not involved" whenever her friend provides her with her beauty elixir, but she also tells her YouTube followers who are in a relationship to tap their own partners to help them. She suggests that the sperm must come from a man "with a healthy diet and stamina to ensure a plentiful supply."
Kiss also said that she got the idea after a beautician told her about acid facials to treat rosacea, according to Huffington Post.
The beauty blogger explains the process that she undergoes each time she does her sperm facials. "It feels like a face pack that pulls the skin inwards, it feels so glossy to wipe it off. It's like having a kind of oil on the face or a wax where it just glides beautifully against the water. It's so cooling and soothing."
The result? Her skin apparently turns "nice and soft."
Watch Kiss demonstrate her sperm facial in the video below:
The sperm facial isn't a new concept as former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown apparently wrote about it in her book, per Huffington Post. A posh New York spa also offers a spermine treatment for its clients, which cost $250 in 2009, according to New York Magazine.
However, some dermatologists aren't fully supportive of the idea of using sperm for facials as there are no proof of its benefits, according to The Daily Beast. "This is an area of discussion that gets brought to my attention by patients in my dermatology practice with relative frequency," dermatologist Dr. Will Kirby said.
