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The Beauty industry in Ireland is booming. And with it, dangerous behaviour.
In a brand new RTÉ Investigates documentary,
The aesthetics industry In particular in Ireland is booming, with record numbers of people seeking cosmetic procedures. Multitudes of treatments from the cosmetic to the clinical have grown in popularity, but the utter lack of regulation has allowed the industry to explode.
RTE Investigates uses covert filming to show the prevalence of unlicensed Botox and weight-loss medicines sold by beauty salons and businesses breaking the law, leaving the public at potential risk from products and procedures that are not fit for purpose.
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Dr Eithne Brenner, Aesthetic Medicine Physician: "There are procedures being done in every corner in Ireland today, which are putting people at undue risk."
RTÉ Investigates goes undercover examining how prescription only products are moving around beauty salons and cross border.
One major supplier selling Botox, instructs the undercover RTÉ Investigates reporter: "You put them in your bag, drive across the border. No police, no customs, no nothing."
Watch RTÉ Investigates: Botox & Beauty at Any Cost, this coming Monday, March 4 at 9.35pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
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