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Salon worker ‘freezes to death’ during cryotherapy

Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, 24, went into the cryotherapy chamber alone, before closing the salon, and apparently the machine didn’t turn off

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

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