A MUM has revealed how she’s found a use for her expired breast milk - as a “Botox alternative.”
Skye Hitchcock uploaded a video explaining her unusual skincare hack and why she is giving it a go, and even smears it on her lips.
In a clip on her @skyehitchcock account which has racked up 22,000 likes, the mum said: “Day one of using breast milk as Botox.
“This breast milk is expired, which is heartbreaking, but I've been trying to think of ways to use this so it doesn't go to waste, and I learned you could use breast milk as Botox.
“So we're going to give it a go.”
Skye showed herself opening the frozen pack of her breast milk and rubbing it on her face.
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And far from feeling weird at the ‘beauty hack’, Skye appeared to love how it felt.
She told fans: “This feels so good. Oh my gosh, you guys if you have breast milk, definitely recommend trying this.
“It feels incredible. So good.”
Skye also added the breast milk under her eyes as she said she was “tired” from her seven-month-old baby waking up “too much in the middle of the night.”
The mum finished smearing the breast milk over her face but didn’t stop there.
She added: “We'll see what that does to my neck.”
And she went one step further by applying it to her lips as they were “super chapped.”
Skye told her followers she would keep them updated as to whether it really had a similar effect to Botox.
Some people said in the comments that they had done something similar for their skin with breast milk.
One person wrote: “I used to rub my BM on my stretch marks!! Worked wonders.”
The importance of sun cream in your skincare routine
Dermatologist and skincare enthusiast Andrea Suarez - known as Dr Dray - revealed why you should wear suncream.
The one thing you can do that will make the biggest difference - and this matters for all ages - is protecting your skin from the sun, Andrea stressed.
"The vast majority of external aging is due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation," she continued, not because you're "not using some jazzy serum or layering 90 different things on your face everyday".
"If you're not doing in your 20s, get on that now."
But she said the use of sun cream alone doesn't go far enough. Andrea urged that you also wear sun-protective clothing like broad-brimmed hats and long sleeves, on top of not staying out too long in the sun.
Doing this over your lifetime - and all year, not just during the summer or on sunny days - "will reduce the visible signs of photoageing", Andrea said.
Those are wrinkles, muddled pigmentation and sagging skin.
Another added: “Yes! It always made my skin so much tighter haha my skin has also been sooo much better since doing it even 4.5 years later!”
However one commented: “The way you tasted it killed me.”
One mum previously said that breastmilk is the reason her skin 'glowed', claiming it was helping her stay youthful.
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Others have made facemasks out of their milk, saying it's 'liquid gold' for antiageing.
Another mum claimed her milk had cured her baby of eczema, and a study from Iran stated that it is as effective as one per cent hydrocortisone ointment, often prescribed to treat eczema.
