For over six hundred million years snails have been wandering on planet earth. Suddenly, during the "Ancient Greek Period" people like Hippocrates, Zezzos, Pliny among others, used snails for medical purposes from whooping cough to ridding gastric ulcers among other things. The Snail actually became the symbol of drug stores!

As time passed by snails became food and as a result this unfortunately wiped out most of the snails in Europe! Then in 1980 the Bascuñan Family from Chile noticed something peculiar. As they nursed snails on their snail farm, they noticed the softness of their hands. Minor cuts to their hands from snail cages healed quickly without leaving infections or scars. The eldest son of the Bascuñan family is a doctor; his name is Dr. Fernando Bascuñan Ygualt. He conducted a rigorous scientific study of the Chilean snail "Helix Aspersa Müller" and his study confirmed that snail extract had healing capabilities on human skin....and so the miracle ELICINA ® cream was born. ELICINA ® is manufactured without any harm to the snails.