40 Years of Beauty

Photo by: courtesy of the subject

1987

Botulinum Toxin (aka Botox): Canada-based dermatologists Alastair and Jean Carruthers discovered that treating patients with blepharospasm, a condition involving uncontrollable eye blinking and spasming, with a diluted solution of botulinum toxin, the lines around their foreheads were erased. It turns out many, many more people suffer from hating their frown lines than from blepharospasm.

Photo by: courtesy of the subject

1987

Botulinum Toxin (aka Botox): Canada-based dermatologists Alastair and Jean Carruthers discovered that treating patients with blepharospasm, a condition involving uncontrollable eye blinking and spasming, with a diluted solution of botulinum toxin, the lines around their foreheads were erased. It turns out many, many more people suffer from hating their frown lines than from blepharospasm.