Natural Marine Extract
Thin, fragile & crepey skin
Natural Marine Extract was made for it. A patented marine complex bottled into a daily oil or gel you smooth into the skin. Developed over 25 years by dermatologist Eric Lewis, MD, and evaluated in a four-month study completed by 283 dermatology patients.*
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What is actually happening
You may notice it first where skin is thinnest: the backs of the hands, forearms, throat and chest. A bruise appears after a bump that never would have left a mark before. Skin starts looking thinner. Small scrapes turn into tears.
These changes are common with aging, but they are not random.
They begin underneath the surface.
Skin that bruises and tears this easily is also more vulnerable to infection. Which is why it is worth addressing early, not only for appearance.
Eric Lewis, MD
Why it changes
Your skin has its own builders. Called fibroblasts, they help produce collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, three components involved in skin's structure and resilience. Skin capillaries nourish the skin. Sebaceous glands lubricate it. With age and accumulated sun exposure, these cells and capillaries become fewer, and the oil glands become much less active.
The rate of lossTap an age
Skin at its fullest
What is left
What has gone
20304050607080
About 2% per yearof strength, elasticity and thickness, starting around 30 years old
Up to 60%of a typical sun lover’s skin and its function, by age fifty
More than 90%of a typical sun lover’s skin and its function, by age seventy
In the press
Forbes described how Natural Marine Extract works:
…the only active ingredient that we know of that stimulates [fibroblasts] to reproduce.
MBET Natural Marine Extract is the active component found from the sea which rejuvenates by stimulating the [fibroblasts] in your skin to produce more [fibroblasts], new and existing, to produce more collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, well known to be the secrets to youthful skin.
Most skincare starts at the surface.
Dr. Lewis started with the cells underneath it.
What the four-month study set out to measure
The four-month study
283294 enrolled; 283 completed. Each patient served as their own control: one side of the hand, forearm, chest and face received the 2% test formula; the other side received the identical base without Natural Marine Extract.
The biopsy
Same patient. Same magnification. One side treated.
A 60-year-old patient after 46 applications.
Left: base lotion only. Right: the same lotion with 2% Natural Marine Extract.
Choose a featureBoth slides mark it at once
Depth and tightness. The bracket at the side measures how far the tissue reaches up its frame. That distance is the thickness of the specimen. The bracket above measures the width of each specimen. Identical cuts were taken; the treated sample draws in as the tissue tightens.
Blood vessels. The rings were drawn on the original slide to mark capillaries. They cluster through the upper dermis of the treated side.
Fibroblasts. Each dot sits on a fibroblast nucleus, the cell that builds collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. Seven on the untreated side; sixty-two on the treated.
The frame did not change. The tissue did.
Tissue shown by clinical biopsy, not a surface before and after photograph.*
Clinical assessment
283 patients
Scored monthly by patient, nurse and physician
For thin skin, patients rated the treated side this much better than their own untreated side.*
Thin skin, rated on the cheek, chest and hands or forearms, against each patient’s own untreated side.
What these numbers are. At each visit, the patient, a nurse and the physician separately rated the improvement of the treated side compared to that patient’s untreated side from 0% to 100%. The three ratings were averaged. These were clinical assessments.
Every group, every monthTap a row for its figures
Each row is one age group, laid on a scale running from nothing to complete improvement. The four marks are months one, two, three and four, numbered on the row you have chosen. No group had stopped climbing when the study ended.
Ages 40 to 49. 44% in the first month, then 63, then 79, finishing at 94. The steepest climb of the four, and the only group to pass ninety.
Ages 50 to 59. Level with the forties at 43% in the first month, then the fastest gain of any group through months two and three, finishing at 92.
Ages 60 to 69. 33% to start, then roughly fifteen points a month all the way through, finishing at 78.
Ages 70 to 79. The slowest start, 35 to 42 over the first two months, then the climb steepens: 57 at three months and 73 at four.
Other conditions measured
Four conditions were scored, in every decade from the twenties to the nineties. Pick a decade and the four readings are the ones for that group; the trace under each shows how that condition ran across every decade in the study.
Find your decadeAll four conditions follow
Thin skin
Not scoredin this group Not scoredin this group 94% 92% 78% 73% 56% 54%
Fine wrinkles
100% 100% 96% 92% 84% 67% 58% 45%
Easy bruising
Not scoredin this group Not scoredin this group 92% 89% 74% 58% 52% 37%
Rosacea
100% 100% 100% 89% 74% 67% 53% 43%
Each trace runs the eight decades left to right, from nothing at the solid rule to a hundred percent at the dotted one. The gold point is the decade you have chosen.
Fine wrinkles and persistent pinkness cleared completely in this group. Thin skin and easy bruising were not present to score.
Still complete clearing on both conditions that were present. Thin skin and easy bruising were not scored here either.
Every condition measured came back over ninety percent, and persistent pinkness cleared entirely.
Thin skin and fine wrinkles both hold at ninety-two. Bruising and pinkness sit a few points behind.
The decade where the four start to separate. Fine wrinkles hold up best; bruising and pinkness are level in the mid-seventies.
Thin skin now scores higher than fine wrinkles. Easy bruising is the hardest of the four to move.
Around half, across all four conditions, with fine wrinkles a little ahead of the rest.
Thin skin holds up best in the oldest group. Easy bruising, at thirty-seven, is the lowest figure in the study.
Rosacea was defined in the study as persistent pinkness.
0.2mL to the cheek, chest and back of the hand and forearm, one side only. Every other day for two months, then twice weekly for two months.
Every patient over 60 had thin skin. No allergic reactions recorded, including among 14 with known seafood allergies.
The study used 2% Natural Marine Extract in a liposome lotion. The products sold here use the same 2% concentration in almond oil or aloe vera gel.
Age-group data. Percentage of improvement of the left hand, forearm, chest and face using Natural Marine Extract, versus just the lotion vehicle on their right side.
| Age group | 1 mo | 2 mo | 3 mo | 4 mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 to 49 | 44% | 63% | 79% | 94% |
| 50 to 59 | 43% | 67% | 82% | 92% |
| 60 to 69 | 33% | 46% | 62% | 78% |
| 70 to 79 | 35% | 42% | 57% | 73% |
| 80 to 89 | 26% | 37% | 47% | 56% |
| 90 to 99 | 22% | 34% | 42% | 54% |
| 100+ | 0% | 23% | 33% | 40% |
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The doctor who made it
Trained at UCLA. Director of the Beverly Hills Dermatology and Wound Care Research Center. Natural Marine Extract came out of over 45 years of treating thin and wounded skin and over 25 years of marine research.
Twenty-five years in the making
In 1999 the precursor to MBET was an abalone farm on the coast of central Baja California. The skincare came later.
It grew from abalone into shellfish, crustaceans and a long list of other ocean species. Nobody was making skincare yet.
Hired to comb the global literature for every ocean compound reported to benefit human health. They found more than 3,400.
Eleven years of testing reduced the list. Combinations of those 88 produced several products. The first patented was Natural Marine Extract.
Natural Marine Extract is the main ingredient in a serum that won an ELLE Beauty Genius Award in 2013, in issue no. 332, given on the basis of the magazine's own extensive research.
Environmentally and sustainably grown at MBET's own coastal facilities, then processed, blended, mixed and bottled in small batches in a California-certified laboratory.
Why it costs what it costs
Natural Marine Extract is not purchased from a commodity ingredient supplier. Its marine sources are cultivated through MBET's Baja facilities, combined in proprietary concentrations and finished in small batches in Los Angeles.
Retinol, retinaldehyde, glycolic, ascorbic, lactic acid
One patented marine complex, US Patent 10,772,825
At the 15mL subscription price that comes to about $1.65 a day. Choose your formula →
Real customers
Patients of Dr. Lewis's Beverly Hills practice and customers of miracleofthesea.com. More than a thousand of his patients have rated it five stars.
5.0
★★★★★
Patient rating
Rated by 1,000+ of Dr. Lewis’s own patients
Returns
<1%
ever send it back
Reorders
85%+
come back for another bottle
Figures from Dr. Lewis’s practice and miracleofthesea.com order records.
01 / 08
My hands don’t look like they’re 80 years old.
I use it on my face and my forehead. My forehead and my face look much cleaner and brighter. And no one in church or any place else thinks I’m 80 years old.
Watch Wayne’s review
02 / 08
The crepe-iness … has greatly diminished.
The crepe-iness that I had been starting to get underneath the eyes, in the neck area, and in the chest area as well.
Watch Christie’s review
06 / 08
If I just tapped my arm like that it would bleed.
I had really thin skin on my arms. It was so bad that if I just tapped my arm like that it would bleed. It’s amazing the difference.
Watch Nicki’s review
07 / 08
Are you kidding? Are you really 90?
I get compliments all the time on my skin. They want to know, are you kidding? Are you really 90?
Watch Marianne’s review
08 / 08
I don’t have to buy my own drinks anymore.
I’m 70 years old and I’ve been using Miracle of the Sea every other night for six months, and now the best thing that’s happened: I don’t have to buy my own drinks anymore.
Watch Cinda’s reviewIndividual results vary. Every quote is taken from a customer’s own filmed review.
Before you decide
Build your formula
Start at 2%, which is what the study used, then pick the base, size and scent you want.
Both carry the same 2% Natural Marine Extract. They just feel different going on.
Tight by mid-afternoon? Choose almond.Shiny by mid-afternoon? Choose aloe.
Going straight to 10% will not get you there faster. Most people move up after a year or so at 2%, once they know how their skin takes it.
All three last about ninety days. The bigger bottles simply cover more ground.
Identical formula, identical price. Pick whichever one you would rather smell every morning.
Your formula
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If it is not for you
The 60-day money-back guarantee applies to your first order of one 15mL bottle at 2%. Larger sizes and higher concentrations are covered by our standard return policy.
Contact us within 60 days of delivery and send the bottle back. We refund once it reaches us.
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The concentration used in the four-month study, in the carrier your skin prefers.
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UCLA
Several patents
Still practicing
Baja
