Come and visit our heliciculture in the Drôme

At the Ferme aux Escargots, Mélodie, Alexandra and Patrice will welcome you to present their breeding to you during an initiatory journey on the snail. You will be able to observe the evolution of snails in their natural environment and let you tell the secret life of these surprising little animals.
You will have the chance to visit the nursery, the breeding greenhouse and the growth beds… This visit will allow you to meet this small pet and discover its unusual functioning.
And of course, you can test all our treatments present in the shop on site. We promise you personalized beauty advice to take care of you.
We even offer you once a year, during the weekend called "from farm to farm", many surprises in a guinguette atmosphere, accordion and good humor.
We have a lot of surprises in store for you if you come see us!

Our exclusive partnership since 2013 with the Ferme aux Escargots allows us to guarantee a supply of organic snail slime harvested by hand and 100% French for our cosmetics.
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The Snail Farm

967 rue de la thine
26140 Albon

Schedule :
From Monday to Friday
8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Contact: 06 12 71 23 46

Jamy offers you a behind-the-scenes tour of our heliciculture in the Drôme.

FOLLOW THE LEADER !

Our harvest by hand with the greatest respect for the animal

We don't take, we wait for them to give us!

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Visit of our heliciculture

We offer you a tour of our heliciculture, accompanied by Steevy Boulay, a loyal user of our care and who asked us to see for himself our commitment to our snails. We invite you to follow us in this visit of the growing beds until the harvest of the snail slime.

For those in a hurry in their visit, we offer you below this same video cut into 5 parts.

Part 1: Snail slime in cosmetics (2 min 04)

It's the encounters that make the great adventures... And why would you want to make cosmetics with snail slime?

Part 2: Steevy Boulay, Sarthois! "I've always loved snails!" (2 min 31)

Part 3: Growth park, Patrice Ambert, 1st organic snail farmer in France (1 min 23)

Patrice Lambert becomes the 1st French snail farmer of “Gros Gris” to be labeled in Organic Agriculture. In 2010, the first research began for the use of snail slime in cosmetics.

Part 4: Harvesting snail slime and respecting the animal (2 min 07)

Discover our sampling laboratory. We carry out a manual harvest, snail by snail, in order to collect a very specific mucus which has all the qualities required for the skin and which respects the life cycle of the animal. We then obtain a much richer mucus, a much "heavier" material than with a harvest carried out mechanically.

Part 5: Reproduction workshop, ideal conditions (1 min 30)

It is a natural way for the snail to reproduce. And they must be able to do it in good conditions, like on a rainy spring day...