By Justin Wm. Moyer
The Washington Post
LAS VEGAS — In a piece published just last week, an employee of a Las Vegas beauty salon proclaimed the benefits of cryotherapy to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. An unorthodox treatment becoming more familiar, some say cryotherapy, which entails exposing the body to sub-zero temperatures, can have great benefits, particularly after a traditional facial and moisturizer treatment.
So explained aesthetician Chelsea Ake-Salvacion. “We like to do the cryofacial afterward because it helps seal everything in,” Ake-Salvacion, 24, told the newspaper in a piece published Thursday.
Then came a bizarre twist. Before her comments were even published, Ake-Salvacion was dead — in her salon’s cryotherapy chamber.
Read full story: Salon worker praised cryotherapy — then ‘froze to death’ during treatment