06/11/2025
🔍 Heads up from the team at Freyja Medical: a recent article by The Guardian has uncovered alarming use of banned treatments in UK beauty clinics, treatments that could seriously impact your safety and health.
⚠️ What’s going on?
Beauty clinics are offering products derived from human cells, specifically “exosomes” harvested from sources like umbilical-cord blood or mesenchymal stem cells, which are not licensed for cosmetic use in the UK. Experts warn these are biologically active materials with unknown risks.
🚨 Why this matters to you
There’s no reliable way to separate exosomes from viruses in these products, meaning there’s a genuine risk of disease transmission.
Scientists still do not fully understand what these exosomes do, how they behave or what long-term effects they may have.
The treatments are being marketed as “miracle” anti-ageing or skin-repair solutions, yet the clinic-based sourcing may breach UK/EU medical and cosmetic regulations.
At Freyja Medical we believe in safe, evidence-based treatments. Before you book anything:
✅ Ask: Is the treatment fully licensed for its claimed use?
✅ Check: Has it had robust clinical trials in humans, and does the provider publish their data?
✅ Be cautious: If it sounds too good to be true (fast dramatic results, little to no risk, “cutting-edge human cell therapy”), it often is.
✅ Choose clinics that prioritise safety, transparency and regulatory compliance, not just marketing buzzwords.
Your skin, and your health, aren’t a test bed. Unlicenced, human-cell-derived treatments are not the same as approved cosmetic products. If in doubt, don’t proceed. And if you’d like to talk through what’s safe, what’s trendy and what’s truly effective, our team is here for you at Freyja Medical.
Please share this post—let’s spread awareness and help people make informed choices rather than risky ones. 💙
Experts warn of serious health risks of using exosome products that are harvested from human donors
