Why Botox Treatment Is The Subject Of Big Summer Myths

Now we are in mid-summer, there is much you need to do to look after your skin on a day-to-day basis with the sun as high in the sky as it gets and (hopefully) a couple more months of hot sunny sunshine to come. But that doesn’t mean you should postpone facial treatments until autumn.

This is important to note, because while there are some treatments you should not undergo at a time of year when your face is exposed to the hot sun (like microblading), there are others that it is still fine to have at this time of year. One of them is Botox injections.

For example, one collaborative post (which itself may be reason to treat it with caution) claimed that summer can be a tricky time to have Botox and dermal fillers, because, it claimed, UV exposure can make recovery slower and worsen negative effects like bruising, changes in pigmentation and swelling, all while making the benefits last for less time.

To this, it adds the advice that if you do have Botox in summer, it will come at the cost of days of having to stay out of the sun for much of the day, hide under a wide-brimmed sunhat, and avoid the swimming pool.

You may well have read claims like this before. However, they are highly exaggerated and the reality is somewhat different. You can still have Botox in summer.

Olivia Coles Cosmetics, based up in Milton Keynes, sets the record straight, noting that while you may need to take extra precautions at first, this should only be for 24 hours. After that, all will be well.

Indeed, Botox can even help to reduce a common summer problem of excess sweating by blocking the nerve signals that tell the sweat glands to open the floodgates.

Of course, you can’t get down to the beach too easily up in Buckinghamshire like you can here in Sussex, but the point remains the same: you can have Botox in summer, and it will only be a short time before you can get back out in the sunshine.