Call for injectable cosmetic fillers to be banned from public exhibitions
The Safety In Beauty Campaign is pledging to spearhead a ban on the practice of injecting members of the public at exhibitions.
The first successful outcome of this campaign led to injectable cosmetic treatments being banned from The Anti-Ageing Show held this month at Olympia in London. The Safety in Beauty Campaign worked closely with the show organisers CRS Media and it was mutually agreed that carrying out cosmetic injections on consumers in a public event setting was neither ethical nor clinically appropriate. Aesthetic Medicine Live and its sister event Professional Beauty have also made a decision to stop exhibitors carrying out injectable treatments on stands.
The campaign’s founder Antonia Mariconda is now speaking to the organisers of other nationally well-known beauty shows in an attempt to try and ban cosmetic injections being offered and a response to this will be issued by the campaign shortly. She commented, “It is highly inappropriate and unethical to offer cut-price injectable cosmetic interventions to members of the public at large-scale events. Not only is this an aggressive, commercially-driven sales tactic to a consumer, but it also poses health and safety risks, as carrying out cosmetic treatments via needles in a setting which is not sterile or clinical poses huge risks. For these reasons, Safety In Beauty believes that such interventions should be confined to clinical environments where consumers have a professional consultation with a reputable, qualified professional and have sufficient time, with no sales pressure, to make a decision”.
