MIRACLES FROM THE SEA. If you believe in miracles, here’s one that they say you can make happen everyday.
It all begins with a horrific accident involving an aerospace physicist working with NASA, Dr.Max Huber.
According to his story, a routine experiment exploded in his face, covering him with excruciating chemical burns. When he eventually healed, Max’s scars remained as a reminder of the accident.
When the doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Max decided to help himself. Twelve years later and 6,000 experiments later, he had perfected a "miracle" creme that helped to make the scars smoothen out and virtually disappear.
So dramatic was the change that friends noticed and wanted to learn his "secret." Being not a selfish man, Max began to share his creme with his friends not just to eliminate scars but to help smoothen out wrinkles and other skin defects.
They say Creme de la Mer (as Max called his secret formula) "defies the laws of nature. There is nothing "miraculous" about Max’s ingredients which are commonly found everywhere. Except for the sea kelp which he would have flown in by helicopter from the US west coast, everything else is common enough to be ready at hand anywhere.
He blended in ingredients like calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron lecithin, vitamins C,E, and B12; also, oils of citrus, eucalyptus, wheat germ, alfafa, and sunflower.
But apparently, the "secret was not in the ingredients but the way they were distilled and that made the difference.
All the ingredients went into a nutrient rich Miracle Broth™ in a process that took 3 to 4 months to complete, patterned after an ancient science of fermentation.
The slow bio-fermentation process release "vital energies" in the "broth" with the result that the skin miraculously improves, becomes soft, smooth and supple. Ageing lines and pores become less noticeable and the driest of complexions were healed. Alleluia!
It’s a terrible thing to say but honestly, lucky for us that Max Huber died, suddenly, from a heart attack.
Perhaps it was the parties and the fast life (because Max had become a celebrity in New York where he lived and in Hollywood where he cavorted with stars) but when he died, his daughter decided to sell the La Mer brand and Miracle Broth™ to Estee Lauder. Marvelous decision!
In every jar is a little sample of Max’s miracle broth. To activate the broth and release its energies, we are told to warm a small amount (the size of a pearl) with our fingertips before smoothening over the face, neck and under the eyes. You should "apply day and night — for a lifetime". Oh my, considering that a jar costs R6,000!
The La Mer line of skin products has been in the Philippines for almost a year but the Lifting Face Serum and Lifting Intensifier was introduced here in October exclusively in Rustan’s.
Ms. Too Yuen Teng, sales and marketing manager of La Mer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was here recently to explain the wonders of Creme de la Mer and how these products work.
Ms. Too had remarkably clear and glowing skin, as is usually the case with Singapore girls. She of course attributes this to a daily routine with La Mer.
