Superdrug To Offer Anti Wrinkle Jabs
Budget anti-wrinkle injections, derma fillers and other treatments are to be offered by Superdrug.
From next week the procedures will be available to customers who can walk into the store for a ‘lunch break’ treatment. It will cost £145 for one area of the face – less than a third of the amount charged by top Harley Street practitioners. The consultation takes about 15 minutes and the treatment takes as little as ten minutes.
They will also offering derma fillers, which add volume to lips and cheeks and fill in deep lines, teeth whitening, leg thread vein removal, chemical peels and deep exfoliation.
Superdrug is the UKs second-largest health and beauty retailer and will be the only high street shop to offer such cosmetic treatments.
Anish Sabherwal, of Superdrug, said the beauty clinics meant that treatments once thought of as luxuries were now accessible in ‘location and price’.
He said: ‘Now a customer can nip into our store during their lunch hour, get a manicure, have an anti-wrinkle consultation, have their brows threaded before choosing a sandwich meal deal and heading back to the office.’
I’m not so sure about it.
While i’m all for making these treatments accessible and love the idea that more people than ever can have some confidence boosting treatments (afterall, why should only the rich have them?), I wonder about the quality and safety of these super-quick, high street treatments. Who, for example, will be performing them?
These treatments involve potent toxins, needles and other products which, if used incorrectly, can cause serious problems to the recipient. They are treatments that should be performed by trained experts. Would you want to be injected by someone with a NVQ level 2 beauty practitioner certificate?
If you do fancy popping into Superdrug for a bit of anti-wrinkle injections PLEASE ask to see the practitioner’s qualifications. A government-backed register for providers of injectable cosmetic treatments such as botox and dermal fillers is now in operation, for example. Ask if they are on the register.
What do you think about ‘lunch time’ jabs at Superdrug? would have some there?
