'Get control of cowboys'

COSMETIC cowboys offering Brazilian butt lifts, Botox and fillers must be subject to tighter regulations to stop them putting lives at risk, watchdogs warn.

- BY DAN WARBURTON

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said there was a "Wild West of untrained, unlicensed and uninsured individuals" operating in pop-up shops on high streets, public toilets and hotel rooms then vanishing before they face action.

Trading standards officers also found "unsafe and unregulated" filler products online for as little as £20.

Richard Knight, CTSI lead officer for cosmetics and beauty, said: "Trading Standards have warned that in most cases the products and services in the aesthetics injectable sector are unregulated.