I Had to Quit Botox the Day I Got Pregnant. Four Years Later, Strangers Ask Who Does My Skin.

Two babies, almost four years without a single shot, and I genuinely look younger than I did before kids. The only thing I changed was finally giving my skin something safe enough to use while I was nursing." - Megan (34)

June 21 2026 at 7:22 AM EST

Note: If a dermatologist has ever told you to stop Botox for pregnancy or breastfeeding and then left you with no idea what is actually safe to use instead, read this before you book your next appointment back.

When I got pregnant with my first, my dermatologist told me to stop Botox immediately. I did it without thinking twice. I wanted my baby safe far more than I wanted a smooth forehead. What nobody warned me about was everything that happened to my face in the years that followed.

Two babies, back to back. Years of sleepless nights. By the time I weaned my second, it had been almost four years since my last shot, and my face had paid the price. Deep lines around my eyes that were never there before. Sagging where nothing used to sag. I looked in the mirror and felt like I was staring at a 50 year old. Somewhere in all of it, I felt like I had lost my face.

Here is the part that made me angry once I finally understood it. The whole beauty industry is happy to sell you a needle every three months, but the moment you get pregnant they show you the door and tell you nothing about what to use instead. You are left to just watch yourself age for years, with the only fix you know waiting for you on the other side, where you come back with deeper lines than you started with.

What I eventually found was not a better injectable or a stronger cream. It was a reframe that changed everything, plus one $30 jar I now push on every pregnant friend I have. Here are the 5 reasons your face does not have to be the thing you sacrifice for the next four years.

Reason #1: Your Face Did Not Age Because You Lost Botox. It Aged Because Nothing Was Feeding It.

This is the reframe that took me years to understand, and it is the one no clinic has any reason to tell you. Botox never did a single thing to nourish your skin. It freezes the muscle underneath so you cannot crease the surface. That is all it does. It is a pause button on movement, not food for your face.

So picture what actually happened during those pregnant and nursing years. The needle was off the table, which was fine, because the needle was never feeding anything anyway. But nothing replaced it. Your skin was running on empty while hormones and no sleep sped everything up, and you had no idea you were even supposed to be feeding it. The aging was not your punishment for quitting Botox. It was the result of skin being starved with nothing coming in.

Reason #2: Pregnancy and Nursing Are When Your Skin Ages Fastest, and Exactly When You Are Locked Out of Everything.

Here is the cruel timing nobody maps out for you. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are some of the most depleting years your skin will ever go through. The hormone swings, the sleepless nights, the nutrients your body pours into a baby instead of your face. And that is the exact window where Botox, retinol, and most of the strong actives are all off-limits. Maximum aging, minimum tools.

Then the cycle just repeats. You wean one baby, you start to notice the damage, and you are pregnant again before you ever address it. Four years can disappear like this. And the worst part is the plan everyone quietly assumes you will follow: wait it out, then go back to the needle to chase lines that are now deeper than they have ever been. It is not your fault the lines are there. You were handed a problem and no safe way to fight back.

Reason #3: It Is Just Food for Your Skin. Which Is Exactly Why It Is Safe Enough for Your Baby.

When I first read that the answer might be beef tallow, I almost laughed out loud at the idea of putting it on my face. Then I read why it works and could not unsee it. Grass-fed beef tallow is rendered fat that is remarkably close to the natural oils your own skin makes. It is so similar that your face does not just sit there with it on top. It absorbs it, the way it absorbs something it recognizes. Like food.

And it arrives carrying exactly what depleted skin runs out of, the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, in a form your skin can actually use. But here is the part that mattered most to me as a mom. It is just rendered fat, raw honey, beeswax and cold-pressed olive oil. Four ingredients. No essential oils in the fragrance-free version, nothing synthetic, nothing you would not want near a newborn. The reason it is gentle enough to use through pregnancy, through nursing, even on the baby, is the same reason it works. It is just food your skin understands.

Reason #4: You Do Not Have to Wait Four Years. Your Face Starts Coming Back in Weeks.

I started using it every single night before bed, the way I used to think only a needle could deliver. Within a couple of weeks my skin felt different in a way it had not in years. Hydrated. Calm. Like it was finally being fed something it had been missing the whole time.

By month three the deep lines around my eyes had softened. The sagging was lifting. My face was slowly starting to look like itself again, naturally, without a single needle going anywhere near it. That is the moment it clicked for me. I had not downgraded from Botox. I had finally given my skin the thing Botox was never doing in the first place.

Reason #5: Worst Case, You Go Back to the Needle. Best Case, You Never Need It Again.

Let me make the decision easy, because the math is not close. Four years of Botox at a few hundred dollars every few months runs well into the thousands, and at the end of it you are right back where you started, lines and all. A jar of Tallow and Honey Balm is $30, it is made by hand in small batches, and it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If your skin does not start to come back the way mine did, you send it back and you are out nothing.

So the real risk here is tiny, and the upside is your face for the rest of your life, through this pregnancy and every one after it. This is what I now tell every pregnant friend and every new mom in my circle. You do not have to give up your face for four years. You do not have to come back to the needle with deeper lines than you started with. There is something gentle enough to use through all of it, and for me it worked better than what I was doing before any of it.

Want to Start With the Tallow & Honey Balm the Right Way?

Based Supplies is a small family business. Every batch of the Tallow & Honey Balm is rendered from grass-fed, grass-finished tallow and hand-poured in small quantities, which is why it sells out after almost every restock. No synthetic fragrance, no parabens, no fillers. Just four real ingredients you can pronounce.

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Step 2: In 4 to 9 business days your fresh jar arrives at your door.

Step 3: Use it every night before bed and give your skin a few weeks to start drinking it back in.

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Try it for 30 days. If your face does not start coming back the way mine did, the guarantee has you covered and you have lost nothing but a little time. The only thing that does not come back is the years you spend waiting.

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