Botox being injected by 'practitioners' with less than half a day's training

Botox administrators with less than half a day's training are injecting patients' faces with the muscle-paralysing poison.

Dozens of medicals firms are allowing employees to carry out this cosmetic treatment after learning to how to perform the procedure using an orange, the Independent Healthcare Advisory Service (IHAS) found.

And many trainers have no medical employment history or qualifications.

This lack of regulation is putting trusting clients at risk as many hairdressers and beauty therapists, according to the IHAS, are storing Botulism at the wrong temperature and in unhygienic conditions.

Approximately one million Brits have Botox or facial fillers injected each year.

It is estimated one in twenty suffer from resulting complications such as droopy eyelids from the former and lumps developing under the skin from the latter.

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