What do you think lemon bottle injection for fat dissolving?

Lemon Bottle is made and widely used in Korea, but it is not licenced for use in UK – not even a CE mark. I can’t find any research about it online. I’ve asked around among my practitioner friends in case I’m missing something obvious about this but they tell me, I’m not. There is no published clinical data to support the product’s claims, even on its own website.

The product is classed by its manufacturers as a cosmetic treatment, so it escapes the need for the safety testing that a medical product has to go through and means non-medics can use it. Although there are surgeons and medical aesthetic practitioners who are offering Lemon Bottle, Lemon Bottle is mostly being targeted at, and used by, beauticans, not by nurse- or doctor-led clinics. That’s a red flag for me.

It’s hard to say what’s doing the dissolving, too. Lemon Bottle says it contains ‘all natural’ ‘botanical based’ ingredients, specifically bromelain and riboflavin  – which are not known as fat-dissolvers. It contains no clinically-approved fat-dissolving ingredients such as deoxycholic acid which other fat-dissolving jabs contain.

If you’re tempted to try it out, you need to be aware that if a substance like this CAN dissolve fat, it will also dissolve anything else in its path. Like, muscle, blood vessels, nerve-sheaths…which is why you really do need an expert injector with a medical background and proper training, to put it in exactly the right place.