Christmas countdown: Omorovicza’s Miracle Facial Set

What do you get when you take 2000 years of Hungarian skincare wisdom and inject some hi-tech innovation in a Nobel Prize-winning laboratory? Omorovicza skin care, a super duper luxe skin range that you’ll find at your local Mecca Cosmetica. A heady mix of history and science, the intriguing brand harnesses the mineral-rich waters of Hungary with potent antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and an exceptional delivery system to give you what it calls “quick and cumulative age-defying benefits”.

The brand plays a key role in Mecca’s stellar Holiday offering this year, with some beautiful sets that make perfect gifts… or gifts to self. The one I have been lucky enough to play with is the Miracle Facial Set, which features three Omorovicza favourites to refresh, hydrate and revitalise the skin, sitting pretty in the cutest box reminiscent of a treasure chest.

Key to the set for me was a 30ml of the brand’s award-winning Miracle Facial oil, which is just so damn luxe to use. Brimming with bakuchiol – a natural alternative to retinol – Omorovicza’s Miracle Facial Oil is deeply replenishing and age defying, stimulating skin’s repair and renewal processes whilst encouraging collagen synthesis to ‘plump’ fine lines, refine skin texture and gradually enhance your skin’s resilience. A cocktail of precious extracts, this gorgeous formulation is lightweight and deeply penetrative, delivering skin-strengthening nutrients directly to where the places they’re most needed. You can use it twice a day, and to super charge the Omorovicza Rejuvenating Night Cream (also included) while you sleep.

A 30ml of the brand’s heavenly Queen of Hungary Mist is also in there, which is beautiful to use and comes with quite the backstory. Legend has it that the water was ‘created’ as a beauty treatment that was so successful that it led the king (aged just 25 years) to propose marriage when she was nearing the end of her life! Omorovicza revived the 14th Century beauty recipe when creating this purifying, toning and protective facial mist, which includes Hungary’s mineral-rich thermal waters in the formula. The earth’s crust is reportedly thinner there, which is why the waters are jam-packed with skin-beneficial elements. Who knew? Keep one for home and take one on travels – just mist skin mid-flight, pre make up or when facing the 4pm slump to maintain moisture levels and keep your complexion contented.

Available for a limited time only, this set is $188 and in store and online now.