Victoria Beckham’s ‘ridiculous’ £1,200 blood face cream slammed by doctor who says ‘it’s a lie in a jar’ and she has ‘more money than sense’
Posh had called the moisturiser 'highly anti-inflammatory and regenerative'
VICTORIA Beckham recently splashed £1,200 on a moisturiser made with her own blood - but a doctor has now called it "false hope in a jar".
The cream was said to boast anti-ageing properties, and is the invention of US celebrity medic Dr Barbara Sturm.
Victoria first discovered the cream at Sturm's clinic in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The 44-year-old was treating daughter Harper, seven, to facials at the time.
She explained on her Instagram Story: "Dr Sturm took my blood and created healing factors made by my own cells, which is highly anti-inflammatory and regenerative.
"I'll be testing it out this week both morning and night!"
However, Dr Ross Perry - Medical Director of CosmedicsUK - isn't a fan.
He tells Fabulous: "PRP (platelet rich plasma) does have the ingredients when in the body to repair and regenerate.
"Its effects when injected after concentrated from your own blood and then immediately reinjected are currently subject to debate but can have some positive effects on musculoskeletal injuries.
"However, putting this in a cream is the ultimate false hope in a jar as there is no way of these natural healing factors being able to stay alive once outside the body.
"This is a case of more money than sense and some people will believe the marketing over science than anything else."
The treatment is called MC1, and is made for clients after some of their blood is removed during a consultation.
Dr Sturm takes a sample to her lab to make a 50ml pot of cream, while the rest is frozen for future orders.
She made her name from "endogamous blood therapy" - also known as vampire facials.
The medic claims that MC1 takes advantage of blood's ability to heal the body.
Before making the cream, she feeds the client's blood through a syringe containing metal beads, which it apparently thinks are "wounds".
This is said to produce the healing proteins IL-1 and TGF-beta, which reduce inflammation, strengthen tissue and promote collagen growth.
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