Can an Ozone Sauna Treatment Detox Botox?

Is subjecting yourself to ozone safe? Is it helpful or damaging? Those are the questions to ask, not if the ozone is ruining your Botox. I can't see how the ozone would interfere with the Botox's duration of effectiveness and I am not aware of any studies that have investigated this.

Hi Texas Peach,

Only if there is a hole in the ozone layer in your friends ozone sauna.  If it did work, there would be ozone sauna clinics for all of the poor Botox injection patients that suffer ptosis (droopy eyelids) at the hands of poorly trained and inexperienced injectors who take a weekend course and call themselves cosmetic doctors (not that core physicians are immune from an adverse event, but at least they know how to minimize complications from injections and take care of them before they become huge problems).  Choose your injecting physician most carefully, as well as your ozone sauna partners.  Good luck and be well.

Dr. P

Hi TXPeach.  No, your Botox results will not be affected by an Ozone sauna.  Botox is injected into the muscle and is bound to the muscle within a matter of hours.  Even if you went into the sauna immediately after the injections, it's unlikely that there would be any adverse affect.

As you can see, there's not a lot of believers in the "ozone" spa.  Good luck with the Botox.

Botox and other similar products such as Dysport work by disabling the connection between a nerve and the muscle it controls, for example the "corrugator" muscle that causes the deep furrows between the eyebrows. Once the effect has taken hold, the Botox is metabolized away and the duration of the effect relates to the time it takes the body to re-establish the connection. So even if there were a treatment to "detox" the Botox, there isn't any Botox to detoxify after a few days.

Dear Texas Peach

I really hope that the "ozone sauna" is a fraud for your sake.  Ozone is an unstable compound that is an oxidant.  Environmental studies have found that peaks in ozone from pollution are associated with spike in community death rates.  So it is worth putting your thinking cap on and remember that it does not make sense that a known toxin would "detoxify" the body.  In fact there is no scientific agreement on what it means to "detox" the body.  So don't accept this unscientific hooey.  A more likely reason that your botox is not lasting as long is that someone is watering down the product you are receiving (this boosts the bottom line until clients bail).  FInd out from the office you are getting service at how much actual BOTOX you are being treated with.  Consider finding service elsewhere and see how much actual BOTOX (measured in units) they think you need.  If that service last longer and gives a better result for the same amount of product, you will have your answer.