Victoria Beckham's Dr. Barbara Sturm £1,200 blood cream is her latest beauty indulgence

While many of us shell out for face cream, Victoria Beckham has just spent more than a lot of people’s monthly rent on hers. While on a trip to Dusseldorf, the designer visited acclaimed skincare specialist Dr. Barbara Sturm’s clinic to pick up her new products. Which, by the way, were made from her own blood.

Beckham had previously revealed in her Instagram stories that she and daughter Harper had popped into's Sturm's German HQ, where Harper was treated to a “baby facial”. But this week she explained she had also had her own blood drawn to make a pot of face cream.

Showing the cream to her followers, which has her own name on it, she wrote “@drbarbarasturm took my blood and created healing factors made by my own cells which [are] highly anti inflammatory and regenerative.”

She added that she hadn’t actually used it yet, but will be “testing it out this week both morning and night!”

Though she'll probably need to stick to the standard pea-sized amount to make it last as it reportedly costs as much as £1,200 to create. According to The Sun, the treatment is called MC1 and requires clients to meet Sturm at her clinic where their blood is drawn.

After that, the blood plasma is kept in a syringe kept at body temperature and filled with glass beads, which Sturm explained “the blood ‘reads’ as a wound”, forcing it to keep producing "healing factors".

The resulting blood plasma is apparently 147 times more concentrated than what we have in our blood naturally. This is then reincorporated into a moisturiser, which according to Sturm has major anti inflammatory and anti aging powers.

A few weeks ago, Victoria Beckham posted a video of what appeared to be her visit to the clinic to her Instagram stories. A woman in the background can be heard explaining that they're going to use her "plasma" on her skin, which is what we're assuming the syringe is full of. (If VB's blood is actually yellow, she has bigger problems than finding the perfect anti-aging solution.)

Speaking to Well and Good, Sturm broke down the process. ”After about four to five hours [of incubating your blood], the concentration of healing factors in it is 147 times higher than before. After extracting the healing factors from the blood cells, they are [reintroduced] to your skin [via the cream], and they go on to help activate its own repair mechanisms to rejuvenate, repair damage, and keep the skin healthy” she explained.

Sturm previously helped develop a treatment for back pain and osteoarthritis loved by Kobe Bryant, called the Orthokine treatment. This also uses blood to help speed the healing process and reduce inflammation. After seeing how well it worked, she decided to bring what she’d learned to skincare.

She now boasts a number of celebrities who love her Molecular Cosmetics lines, including the Hadid sisters, model Karolina Kurakova, Hailey Baldwin, Angela Bassett and Brooke Shields. In fact, you might recall one of her previous treatments, known as the “vampire facial” where the blood is re-injected into the skin. The treatment became famous after Kim Kardashian had it done. She has since claimed she’s not a huge fan of the treatment, though her sister Kourtney swears by it.

Beckham has been using many of Dr. Barbara Sturm’s products over the past few weeks, showing off not one but two massive hauls, from pills and serums to "enzyme cleansers".

Just in case you want to pick some up for yourself, here's what Beckham uses:

Dr. Barbara Sturm Enzyme Cleanser

If you’re in the market for a fancy new cleanser, this powder based one comes VB-approved. It does double duty as a cleansing foam and gentle enzymatic peel, doing away with dead skin cells. Beckham posted an Instagram story of herself using it, saying, “What I like about this is that it’s a fine grain cleansing powder and it smells super nice. It’s really nice on the skin.”

She added that she wipes her face off with a wash cloth for extra exfoliation.

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Dr. Barbara Sturm Face Mask

VB said in her Instagram stories that this mask was “incredible and natural”, also revealing that she sometimes sleeps in it for “extra hydration”. Imbued with Sturm’s second favourite ingredient purslane, advanced antioxidants, aloe vera, chamomile and kaolin, it’s intended to detox, protect and hydrate your skin.

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Dr. Barbara Sturm Skin Food

Beauty supplements are all the rage at the moment, and VB got herself these vegan capsules, which claim to nourish and boost your skin. Created to activate an enzyme called telomerase to stimulate cell renewal, the pills claim to help combat ageing. Victoria Beckham posted a picture of both Skin Food and another Sturm tablet, Repair Food. She advised her viewers to “take two capsules daily”.

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Dr. Barbara Sturm Repair Food

Another product in VB’s massive Dr. Barbara Sturm haul, these tablets claim to have strong anti-inflammatory properties - a “key cause of anti-aging”. With other ingredients like purslane, zinc and pomegranate skin extract providing the antioxidants and extra support, it’ll cost you £85 for 60 capsules.

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