Is Lemon Bottle Safe?

3 Reasons Why I Don’t Offer It In My Clinic

Lemon Bottle has caused a buzz on social media and risen in popularity in the last year. It claims to be an injectable “fat-dissolving treatment” but there are several reasons why I don’t offer it in my clinic and I don’t recommend my patients look for it elsewhere either.

It’s not CE marked.

In the UK, our cosmetic treatment industry is largely unregulated and it is down to individual practitioners to determine what products are suitable to offer their clients or not. Lemon Bottle is classed as a cosmetic treatment, rather than a medical one. As such, it is not subject to the same regulations and testing as medical products and devices.

CE marking is an indication of quality and safety for products sold with the European Economic Area. If a product carries a CE mark, it has been ‘assessed to meet high safety, health, and environmental protection requirements.’ The presence of a CE mark suggests that a product is deemed safe to be sold and used for the purposes for which it was intended and tested. This is particularly important for any products injected or for internal use.

Lemon Bottle does not have a CE mark and is classified as a cosmetic treatment, so it’s safety has not been proven against this widely recognised standard and it has no requirement to conform to the same regulations and safety protections as medical devices.

We don’t know what’s in it

A full ingredients list has not been published and the ingredients that are declared are inconsistent. What’s more, Swissmedic, the authority for drugs and medicinal products in Switzerland, warned ‘the ingredients do not match the declaration and even vary greatly from one pack to another’ after testing various samples of Lemon Bottle.

If I’m not sure what is in a product, I certainly will not be injecting it.

Is it even suitable for injection?

Following their testing process, Swissmedic issued a warning earlier this year advising against the use of Lemon Bottle, stating ‘No medicinal effect has been scientifically proven, the quality of the ingredients has not been tested and using the product may therefore pose a health risk.’

In response, SID Medicos, the distributor of Lemon Bottle, emphasised that ‘the original Lemon Bottle Ampoule solution is exclusively for external use as a cosmetic and not intended for lipolysis or injection’. They also pointed out that they had not verified the products Swissmedic tested, but drawing attention to the fact that this product was not meant to be injected is enough for me to steer clear. Added to that, there are no clinical trials indicating proven results, no peer reviewed methods for injection and huge questions raised over consistency, quality and safety of the product itself which is why I