Trading Standards Warnings & Alerts

This page shares public warnings and safety notices issued by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI)—the UK’s consumer protection body. These alerts may concern ingredients, products, treatments, or environmental risks.

⚠️ 2025 – Current Alerts – The Cost of Beauty 2025

SKIN WHITENING IV DRIPS

Urgent Warning – 26 June 2025
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has issued a fresh public warning, this time over glutathione skin-whitening IV drips, sold online and administered by unqualified individuals. These drips carry serious risks, including organ damage, allergic reactions, and potential links to cancer.

What’s being asked for:

• A national licensing scheme to regulate high-risk aesthetic procedures

• A Ministerial-led task force to coordinate reform across the UK

• The extension of age restriction laws to cover all four nations

• Bans on unsafe online products, including injectable substances like glutathione

📄 CTSI Newsroom Briefing: Public Warning – Glutathione IV Drips (26 June 2025)

FILLERS · BOTOX · FAT INJECTIONS

Urgent Warning – 18 June 2025
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has called for urgent regulation, describing the UK aesthetics market as a “Wild West” of untrained, unlicensed and uninsured providers—some operating from hotel rooms, pop-ups, and even public toilets—using unsafe materials purchased online.

What’s being asked for:

• A national licensing scheme

• A government-led task force

• Consistent age restrictions across the UK

• A ban on unsafe online products

CTSI Newsroom Briefing: [Link to the official press release] – 18 June 25
Urgent Regulation of Fat Injections, Fillers and Botox Needed

NAILS: Don’t Come Unstuck

CTSI Newsroom Briefing: [Link to the official press release] – 23 May 2025
Super-strength nail glue leaves girl with lifelong health issues
Campaign Materials: [Link to downloadable resources and fact sheets]

EYELASHES: Keep an Eye on Safety!

Campaign Materials: [Link to downloadable resources and fact sheets]
Note: No formal newsroom briefing available at time of writing.

NASAL TANNING: Say “No Way” to the Spray

CTSI Newsroom Briefing: [Link to the official press release] – 16 May 2025
Campaign Materials: [Link to downloadable resources and fact sheets]