My pet seagull may have new employment.

Thursday morning. Joys of living on the water… wakened by bird song very early. And, seeing my pet birds in a whole new light today…

Okay everyone, prepare to laugh out loud! That’s what I did last night when the “bird poop facial” segment (as it was billed) appeared on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. As you may have guessed, I’m a great fan of this show, as I believe Donny is providing an amazing service for entrepreneurs.

Anyway… I’m still chuckling at the bird poop facial segment (yes and no). No, it’s not the birds that get facials. But if you’re involved in the going-green movement, meaning reuse recycle etc., then this new “product” and service found at an upscale New York day spa will perhaps make you go green in other ways… either green with envy or green with nausea. :-)

Generally we think of facials being made from extracts of such things as mushrooms, green tea, sage, hops and lemon, soy collagen, pearl protein, rice bran oil, sake, Aloe Vera, pueraria lobata root and chlorella. Now  we can now add Nightingale excrement to the mix.

At SHIZUKA, the New York City Day Spa and Medical Spa in Manhattan, (named after the owner and master aesthetician Shizuka I. Bernstein), clients enjoy skin care treatment combining the latest research in Western dermatology with time-honored Eastern holistic knowledge, including this new, (old), and unusual Japanese facial treatment.

The bird doo is made into a powder, known as “uguisu no fun”, (hmmmm… no fun… no pun intended?) is rich in the amino acid guanine, said to brighten and cleanse skin. In the 18th century, geishas and kabuki actors used the powder to clean heavy white makeup off their faces. You’ll be pleased to know that the Japanese manufacturers of this powder treat it with ultraviolet light to kill bacteria. :-)

The spa evolved from the cosmetology practice of master aesthetician Shizuka I. Bernstein and her work with the prominent Manhattan dermatologists Robert M. Bernstein M.D. (her husband) and Philip Bruder, M.D. Lauded as a “Skin Care Guru” by New York Magazine.

Billed by Reuters as “Poop-De-Doo, the facial with bird excrement that has taken flight”, this treatment is more expensive that other facials offered in the SHIZUKA spa.

So here’s what I’m thinking… canvass the condos here by the water, get everyone to skip the peppermint oil repellent for the seagulls and pigeons, (can amino acid guanine only be found in Nightingale excrement?), start a bird poop consortium and create our own brand of bird poop-de-doo facials. Let’s see… we could call it Seageon Doo, Pigull Doo or better yet Seadoo!

What do you think? Will this fly Donny, as the next Big Idea or will be just have egg on our face?