About BOTOX®  (abo-botulinum-toxin-A)

One day you looked in the mirror and studied those lines that furrowed your brow, and you wondered: Where did they come from.

Is it just aging? Too much sun? Too much stress? In general, how skin ages and wrinkles is a complex process. It isn't just about cellular changes, collagen depletion, hormone loss, damage caused by free radicals, and so on; it's a combination of many factors.

The lines that appear between your brows (glabellar lines), forehead, around your eyes (crow’s feet) actually result from muscle movement (dynamic wrinkles). You may have heard the expression "wearing your emotions on your sleeve," but in reality you wear them on your face. If you're angry or annoyed, for example, you knit your brows together. Underneath your skin, your facial muscles contract, cause a pleating of the overlying skin, and then, as anyone can see, you're frowning.

After years of crinkling and wrinkling, those lines start to linger longer and can become more pronounced (static wrinkles). For women, whose faces tend to be more animated than men's, and whose skin is typically more delicate, these lines may appear exaggerated and more permanent.

Fortunately, there is a way to temporarily reduce moderate to severe facial lines. Treatment with BOTOX® Cosmetic can visibly smooth and soften moderate to severe facial wrinkle and lines. An improvement in the appearance of worry lines, frown lines, laugh lines, crow's feet and other dynamic wrinkles can be seen within days and may last up to 4 months, although results may vary.

BOTOX® Cosmetic is a simple, nonsurgical, injection treatment that can temporarily smooth moderate to severe facial lines in people from 18 to 65 years of age. It is the only treatment of its type approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

One 10-minute treatment—a few tiny injections—and within days there's a noticeable improvement in moderate to severe frown lines between the brows, which can last up to 4 months. Results may vary.

BOTOX® Cosmetic is a purified protein produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacterium, which reduces the activity of the muscles that cause those dynamic and static wrinkles to form over time.