New gel takes the needle out of botox treatments

For the product to take effect,a patient needs to sit with the gel around the eye area for 30 minutes so that it can penetrate the skin to “relax” the underlying muscles,before it is wiped off.

Also,the gel needs to undergo another round of trials before reaching approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

The study will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Denver,Colorado.