Botox has become the most popular cosmetic tweakment in the world, but did you ever wonder how people began injecting their wrinkles with something derived from a lethal poison?
It’s all due to one woman, Dr Jean Carruthers, whose story begins more than 30 years ago with a combination of chance and medical brilliance. Oh, “and a husband who listened to me!” smiles the woman who’s been called “The Godmother of Botox”.
Today, an estimated 900,000 Botox facial jabs are performed each year in the UK alone. But the treatment certainly hasn’t been an overnight success story for Jean, 74, and her husband Alastair, a cosmetic dermatologist who co-researched her idea.
