Restraint, stated as a standard.

What we treat

Eleven non-surgical treatments covering movement lines, lost volume and structure, skin quality and hydration, localised fat and excessive sweating. Each is offered where it addresses the finding and declined where it does not. Laxity, volume loss, movement and skin quality are four different problems, and treating one of them with the wrong tool is the commonest reason a well performed treatment disappoints.

They are set out in full on the treatments page, each with what it changes, who it suits, recovery, aftercare and the circumstances in which it is the wrong choice.

The standards we hold to

In place of badges and figures, the commitments that actually determine how treatment goes.

Assessment before treatment, always

A full facial assessment and medical history before any treatment is proposed. Where a prescription-only medicine is involved, the prescriber assesses you face to face. No prescribing from a photograph, a form or a video call.

A written plan you take away

Areas, sequence, product, quantity, cost and the risks that need a protocol, in writing. Two-stage consent, with a cooling-off period rather than a signature taken in the same appointment.

Conservative first, adjust at review

A first treatment is deliberately light. It is far easier to add at the two-week review than to dissolve an overfilled result or wait out a heavy dose of toxin.

A complications protocol, not a promise

A written protocol for what happens if something goes wrong, a route to reach a clinician out of hours, and for hyaluronic acid filler, hyaluronidase available with a practitioner competent to use it.

Cost that follows the assessment

No price list. Advertising a prescription-only medicine to the public is prohibited, and a figure quoted before anyone has looked at your face is a shopping prompt rather than information. A written quotation follows the assessment and states what is and is not included. What treatment costs.

No gallery, no testimonials

Cosmetic photography can be made dramatically more flattering without editing anything, by changing lighting, angle, distance, expression and make-up alone. A gallery is a poor basis for a decision, so the standards above are published instead.

The regulatory position

Botulinum toxin is a prescription-only medicine and must be prescribed for you individually by a qualified prescriber who has assessed you in person. Dermal fillers are regulated as medical devices, so there is no prescription requirement and, at present, no general licence needed to inject them. Legislation enabling a licensing scheme in England exists but has not been brought into force.

Until it is, the safeguard is your own ability to check who is treating you. The questions that establish it apply here as much as anywhere, and you should ask them.

Editorial approach

The treatment pages describe mechanisms, indications, contraindications, recovery, complications and the regulatory position as it stands in the United Kingdom. Where the position is uncertain or changing, that is stated rather than smoothed over. Where a treatment cannot deliver what people commonly hope for, that is stated too.

Nothing here is medical advice or a substitute for an in-person assessment. Regulation in this field has been moving for several years and may have changed since a page was written.

Contact

Enquiries: hello@aestheticlaunchlab.com. This website is operated by Aesthetic Launch Lab and enquiries are handled by them. Please do not send clinical details or photographs by email. If something has gone wrong after a procedure, contact the practitioner who treated you, or NHS 111, rather than waiting for a reply. Full details are on the contact page.