What Cosmetic Journal is
Cosmetic Journal is a UK magazine about cosmetic treatments, written for the people having them. It covers the non-surgical aesthetics sector the way a trade title covers an industry, with the reader placed on the patient's side of the desk rather than the clinic's.
That framing decides most of what appears here. We write about consultations, credentials, pricing, regulation, recovery and complications at greater length than about treatments themselves, because those are the areas where a reader can actually change an outcome. A patient cannot improve an injector's technique. A patient can verify a registration, ask who prescribes, and decline to be treated on the same day at a discount that expires.
Who publishes it
Cosmetic Journal is published by Northbank Media, an independent UK publisher of specialist consumer and trade titles. The publisher is named on every page for a reason: readers should be able to see who is behind what they are reading, and to hold the same organisation to account across everything it publishes.
How the articles are put together
Every article follows the same discipline. It opens with a short answer that could be quoted on its own without misleading anybody. It sets out mechanisms rather than claims, so a reader can work out whether the reasoning applies to their own face. It links to the UK institutions that hold the relevant authority, including the professional regulators and the bodies that publish patient information.
What we do not do is as important. We do not invent clinics, practitioners, studies or statistics. We do not quote a percentage we cannot attribute to a named institution. We do not publish before and after photographs, because a photograph on a publisher's website carries no information about the reader's own face and every incentive to flatter. And we do not name a treatment as best, because the correct treatment is a function of an examination we have not carried out.
Prices, and why they are given as ranges
Where we quote UK prices they are ranges for 2026, drawn from what the market typically advertises, and they are labelled as such. They are not a survey, and no individual clinic's pricing should be inferred from them. Ranges are more useful than averages here because the spread is the story: a treatment advertised at a third of the local range is telling you something, and a range makes that visible in a way a single figure does not.
This is journalism, not medical advice
Nothing published on Cosmetic Journal is medical advice, and nothing here should be used to make a decision about your own treatment without a qualified professional who has examined you. We describe what treatments do in general. A consultation establishes what they would do to you, which is a different question and the only one that matters at the point of booking.
If you are considering treatment, the two most useful things you can do are covered in our guides to checking a practitioner's credentials and what a good consultation looks like. Both take about ten minutes and both are free.
Corrections
We correct errors. If something here is wrong, tell us through the contact page and we will check it, fix it and note the change. Corrections that materially alter the meaning of an article are marked on the article itself rather than made silently.
The commercial position
We do not sell links, coverage, placements, sponsored articles or reviews, and there is no arrangement under which a business can pay to appear here. Where an article mentions a named business, the article says why, and a disclosure block at the foot of the page states the position in full. Most articles on this site mention no business at all and say so explicitly.
The complete position is set out in our editorial policy, which is the page to read if you want to know how this publication makes decisions rather than how it describes itself.