Xeomin: What You Need to Know?
What is Xeomin?
Xeomin (incobotulinumtoxinA) is an injectable neurotoxin that temporarily relaxes muscles to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles created by dynamic facial movements, such as smiling, frowning, or raising your eyebrows.
It’s FDA-approved to treat moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines), but it’s commonly used off-label to treat everything from gummy smiles to boxy jawlines.
Xeomin is also FDA-approved to treat neck pain caused by cervical dystonia, eye spasms known as blepharospasm, and upper limb spasticity.
What are the pros and cons of Xeomin?
Pros
- Xeomin injections require no downtime. You can get the treatment done during your lunch hour and head straight back to work.
- Along with smoothing existing lines, it can help prevent new wrinkles from forming. It’s common for young people to get neurotoxin injections as a preventive measure, to keep lines from digging in or deepening.
- Xeomin can be used to shrink certain large muscles, like the masseters (chewing muscles), over time. The effect is both functional—a reduction in painful clenching and grinding—and cosmetic.
- It’s safe for all skin types and tones.
- Effects are temporary, so if you’re unhappy with the results, you’re not stuck with them—they’ll gradually disappear over about four months.
- The most common side effects of Xeomin—injection site bruising, swelling, soreness, and short-term headaches—are minor and transient.
Cons
- As with similar botulinum-based muscle relaxants, results are temporary; you’ll have to get periodic touch-ups to maintain them.
- While Xeomin can help with lines caused by muscle movements and facial expressions, it can’t erase etched-in wrinkles that are visible when your face is at rest.
- In the hands of an inexperienced injector, you could temporarily end up with a crooked smile, uneven eyebrows, or droopy eyelids.
- RealSelf Tip: Avoid this and other neurotoxins if you are breastfeeding, are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. The effects haven’t been studied in those instances, so the potential effects on an unborn (or new) baby are unknown.
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