Botox has been around for some time now, and its ability to stop the muscles it affects from working can lead to impressive wrinkle and blemish reductions. With that in mind, it might seem a little strange that facial botox is really the only way most people use these injections. While there are some uses for botox in other areas of the body, particularly to help those who have conditions causing excessive sweating, facial botox is by far the most popular. Here are a few reasons why this is the most common area to have botox injections done. 

The Face Is Your Main Feature

For many people, the face is the most important feature they have, and ensuring it is well sculpted is important to their self-confidence. Minor issues elsewhere on the body might not raise as much of a fuss as they do on the face because they simply are not that identifiable where they are. For example, wrinkles on your upper arms or legs are almost always covered so they don't really seem like that big of a deal, whereas forehead wrinkles are plain to see. When used outside of the face, botox is generally more of a utilitarian procedure rather than a cosmetic one.

More Muscles In The Face

The face has a lot of muscles condensed into a tiny space, which is why it can seem like there are more wrinkles on it than elsewhere in the body. That can also be why wrinkles appear earlier on the face than they do in other places. In addition to this, lots of muscles in the face are only attached to the skin, which makes them even more susceptible to botox and provides greater results from the procedure. Botox would be less efficient in the bigger muscles that you find in other places on the body, which is why the face makes such a great candidate.

Availability

In sort of a self-fulfilling kind of way, facial botox is in part more popular because there are so many different cosmetic places that offer it and not so many that offer botox in other areas of the body. The widespread availability makes it more popular so more health and beauty clinics open up where it is available and the cycle continues. While other types of botox do exist and you can find them, you will most likely have to make quite a trek to utilize them while facial botox places are available all over the country.