By BR Kellie
Growing up I belonged to a standard three veg and meat kind of family where veg meant potatoes, carrots, peas and beans, and fruit meant apples, bananas, oranges, pears, grapes, kiwifruit and strawberries. The usual suspects. The most exotic we got in the fruit and veg department was courgette (and seriously, my mother made the best stuffed courgettes in the world.) and banana passionfruit from Nanna’s vine (or stolen from the neighbour’s vine… shhhhh!). So when I grew up, moved out, moved to a bigger city and was suddenly faced with fruit and vege shops filled with fruits and veg in interesting shapes and colours, teamed with unpronounceable names… well, what a culinary adventure!
The first time I ever tried a pomegranate it was a revelation. Who knew those little wee balls of redness hidden in those big round globes could be so darn amazing… and not just in your mouth it turns out. Yes, pomegranate is a friend to the skin – especially those whose skin is dry or ageing (or both…)
You know how we bang on about the benefits of antioxidants, well pomegranates happen to be chock full of the little wonders, which makes them one great skin saver as well as a superfood. Benefits of eating, drinking and applying include stimulation of collagen, sun protection, dehydration and even inflammation.
So what’s available on our shores for our skin? Natural beauty brand, Weleda, has a whole pomegranate range, where pomegranate seed oil from organically grown pomegranates features in everything from day, night, body, hand and eye creams to serums, body oils, and body washes.
The Body Shop also features a pomegranate range, which they claim will ‘pump up the volume in four weeks for softer looking wrinkles, firmer feeling skin and healthy-looking glow’.
Want to show your kissers some love? Check out apicare’s Manuka Honey Lip Butter with Pomegranate.
Or pick up plantae’s Pomegranate Fruit Rich Day Cream and let the regenerative properties of pomegranate work its magic alongside Auvergne Pink Bark, Blackcurrant Leaf complex and Damask Rose Otto Oil.
Yep, it’s safe to say that pomegranate now has to be one of my favourite ways of taking care of my skin. So tell me, are you down with the ‘granate? Did you know how good it was for your skin? Or were you like me and totally blown away to find out? Chat away….
I love pomegranates but aside from using them in salads or drinks I don't know why it didn't occur to me the antioxidants could be beneficial to my skin. Also my bank balance thanks you BR for adding more products to my wish list ;) heehee