Untrained practitioners are offering fat jabs, butt lifts and Botox in public toilets in a ‘Wild West’ procedures market, trading standards leaders warn.
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said there is a need for urgent Government action over unregulated and unlicensed practitioners and treatments, alongside where they can be offered.
It said it had uncovered ‘shocking’ locations where procedures such as fillers are being administered, including ‘pop-up' shops on high streets, cubicles in public toilets and hotel rooms. It said these locations fall outside typical business premises and make taking action difficult.
Officers found ‘unsafe and unregulated’ fillers available for sale online to shoppers for as little as £20.
And they expressed growing concerns over fat-dissolving injections, such as Lemon Bottle, which have ‘little to no regulatory oversight to ensure their safe use by the public’.
