Cosmetic surgery: Many of $10 billion industry's treatments unregulated

Health-SKorea-cosmetic-surgery,FEATURE by Jung Ha-Won This picture taken on May 22, 2013 shows a South Korean woman walking past a street billboard advertising double-jaw surgery at a subway station in Seoul. South Korea's obsession with plastic surgery is moving on from standard eye and nose jobs to embrace a radical surgical procedure that requires months of often painful recovery.

From Brazil to Beijing, one of the fastest growing markets in the world is the one for clinical cosmetics. But a surprising number of these treatments are barely regulated at all, the BBC's Justin Rowlatt found.

Los Angelenos love their beauty treatments.

But from Brazil to Beijing, one of the fastest growing markets in the world is the one for clinical cosmetics.

And you know we're not just talking about make-up here, but all sorts of other "interventions" from facial peels to botox treatments to full cosmetic surgery.

At the moment this market is estimated to be worth $10 billion a year worldwide and it's getting bigger.

But, a surprising number of these treatments are barely regulated at all.

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt found out a bit more as he strolled around a cosmetic surgery trade fair in London.