Beauty Standards, Anti-SPF Propaganda, and Red Flags in the Aesthetics Industry | with Dr Ben Taylor-Davies

Prologues

Mary Skinner

Society & Culture

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm joined by Dr Ben Taylor-Davies from The Stockbridge Clinic to discuss some of the deeper issues threading through the aesthetics industry. From the lack of regulation and licensing for injectors in the UK (which leads to improper treatment and "Love Island face"), to the relationship between beauty treatments and the beauty standard, to the concerning rise of anti-sunscreen rhetoric online, Dr Ben is here to answer all of our questions and give an inside look into the aesthetics industry.

*note* Mercury Retrograde struck me again during the recording and I lost a few minutes of footage at the beginning of our conversation. You shouldn't have an issue keeping up, but the first discussion of the episode centers around the lack of proper licensing and training for injectors in the UK.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital journal entry
0:21.0	detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment.
0:24.1	I talk about my journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development,
0:28.8	and more.
0:29.7	So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first time,
0:34.9	and you are still in the beginning of your personal story.
0:41.3	Well, figuring out life for the first time and you are still in the beginning of your personal story. Welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	Thanks so much for joining us today.
0:44.4	Can you tell us a little bit about you and your background and what you do?
0:47.1	Yeah, definitely.
0:48.2	So I'm Dr. Ben.
0:49.4	I'm an aesthetic medical doctor based here in Edinburgh.
0:52.3	I've got a clinic in Stockbridge, the Stockbridge Clinic. I have a background as an A&E doctor, actually, so I still work a little bit in the
1:01.1	NHS in emergency medicine. But I got into aesthetic medicine about three, three, four years ago,
1:08.4	started having my own treatments, realized the real transformative power of
1:11.7	those. Kind of got bitten by the bug. Like when I find something I'm really interested in, I really go for
1:16.3	it. So I just found I loved it. And I've been very lucky that I've had patients that have kept
1:20.7	coming to me. So with your medical background, are you a general practitioner? No, so I'm an A&E
1:26.0	doctor by background. So if you went, yeah, emergency medicine. ER. ER, I was going to say the emergency room, if you're listening in the US, what we call accident and emergency. And like I said, I still do that. Only a few days a month, really now. You can't assume that because someone is doing these treatments in the UK, they are safe and qualified and a healthcare professional. So like you've moved from the US. Did you realize that?
1:49.6	I heard about it on TikTok because of the Love Island discussion because people talk a lot about
1:54.2	how improperly done filler ages you. Yeah. And can really like you get these young girls that look
2:00.0	10, 15 years older than they are, which is what prompted people to be like, well, what is going on in the UK?
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