M LabHarrods is definitely the most exclusive department store I’ve ever been too.  Look past the tourists milling around and the fun Christmas window displays (live ice skaters!) and you’ll find one of the best selections of luxury goods around.  While I must admit that my favorite place in Harrods is the food hall, perusing beauty products is probably where I spend the most time.  M Lab is a no expenses spared line of anti-aging products that, up until recently, was sold exclusively at Harrods.  The minimalist black bottles and simple labels can betray the complexity of the ingredients in each formula.  They also hint at the astronomical price tags!  Luckily, now that M Lab is available in the US through their website, www.mlabonline.com, the prices are a little more reasonable without the terrible exchange rate thrown into the mix.

Since I’m pregnant and can’t use products with retinols in them for the time being, I gave samples of the entire M Lab line to my mom to test for me.  She said that all of the products had a nice consistency and a pleasant smell.  She also liked that, although the products all have a high concentration of active ingredients (up to 74% for the treatment serum), they didn’t irritate her skin.

The cleanser and toner aren’t at all drying and she found that the treatment cream, treatment serum, day treatment with SPF 15, eye cream and body treatment weren’t oil, didn’t interfere with her makeup and even though the samples only lasted for a few days use, she thought her skin looked a little more plump.  The treatment cream, serum and day cream are all a similar product containing peptides, anti-oxidants and hydrating ingredients, so it depends on what you are looking at them to achieve.  Do you want a cream for day or night, a day cream with added SPF or a more concentrated serum?  My mom preferred the regular treatment cream as an all over facial cream.

Since the biggest drawback that my mom found, was the price, it’s helpful that M Lab offers a travel collection of all but the body treatment cream, so you can try before you make the commitment to buy.  It’s too bad that they don’t offer the body treatment cream with the travel collection, since our faces aren’t the only places that show age - our hands and upper chests especially need a little extra anti-aging TLC.

Although not yet offered in the US, M Lab has an Anti-Aging Blemish control line available in the UK.  For those of us that suffer from the effects of youth and age all at the same time, I have my fingers crossed that they’ll add it to their US website here soon.

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