Sandra*, a 43-year-old media lawyer based in Los Angeles, had been toying with the idea of breast augmentation since her 20s, but was always put off by the pain of the procedure, the long recovery time and the idea of having “this kind of foreign sac in your body.”
So when Sandra, who wanted to protect her identity for privacy reasons, heard about a new injectable body contouring product last summer, she was intrigued. No synthetic fillers, no implanted sacs, no downtime.
“You hit a certain age and you decide, I’m going to do something for myself at this point,” she said. The product she found — alloClae, pronounced allo-clay like the earthy sculpting material…