By Hannah Powling
Halloween is just a few weeks away; and yes, we are not so secretly searching for possible outfits to wear this year already, and yes we are looking up what kind of creative new design to carve into our pumpkins.
I particularly look forward to my yearly pumpkin carving and soup (my mums is to die for); but once Halloween is over, the pumpkin obsession dies down, and this poor little vegetable gets forgotten about till next October. So we think its time we told you some other great uses for Pumpkins other than soup and pie.
Pumpkin contains a lot of amazing properties that benefit your skin. No we aren’t just talking about eating the stuff; it is found in a lot of professional skin care today and is a pretty hot beauty ingredient.
Pumpkin is packed with fruit enzymes and alpha hydroxy acids, which act as a natural exfoliant on the skin. It helps increase cell turnover, which brightens and smooths the skin too. Pumpkin is also packed with Vitamin A and Vitamin C to help soften and soothe the skin and boost collagen production. The zinc found in pumpkin seeds is brilliant for acne sufferers, as it helps control the hormone level and oil production, as well as assisting with the healing of the skin.
We’ve done the work for you to find some amazing skin care products that contain this fantastic ingredient… here are our favourites:
Peter Thomas Roth Pumpkin Enzyme Mask
The Peter Thomas Roth Pumpkin Enzyme Mask (£59) exfoliates the skin with the pumpkin enzyme to give a more even skin tone and prep the skin for moisturising. Its powerful ingredients work to even out skin tone, reduce fine lines and wrinkles and enrich the skin with Vitamins. Massage into the skin, working with its scrub-like texture to exfoliate, and then leave to sit and act as a mask. The warm, cinnamon-y scent infused with pumpkin will certainly wake up your skin. Like its very own pumpkin latte.
Mychelle Creamy Pumpkin Cleanser
Mychelle have a range of pumpkin-based products, this is just one of them. The Creamy Pumpkin Cleanser (£10.50) soothes, hydrates and cleanses the skin. Packed full of vitamins and the exfoliating natural enzymes gently wash away impurities to leave the skin lovely and soft. It has pumpkin fruit and honey to restore the moisture levels and refine the skin’s surface. and also helps to soothe redness and irritation.
Andalou Pumpkin Honey Glycolic Mask
Containing organic pumpkin and rich in beta carotene, the Andalou Pumpkin Honey Glycolic Mask (£9.99) is blended with Manuka honey and citrus glycolic AHA which gently dissolves and lifts away dull surface cells on the skin, to exfoliate and resurface for an even tone and smooth texture. The Fruit Stem Cell Complex helps revitalize for a brighter and more luminous complexion too.
Passport to Organics Pumpkin Peel
This one smells just like fresh pumpkin, and exfoliates dead skin cells with its pumpkin enzynmes (starting to notice a pattern here?) and contains 5% glycolic acid, which is the most active AHA acid and triggers new formation of collagen to reveal younger looking skin. After using the Passport To Organics Pumpkin Peel (£22.19) your skin will feel smooth and soft. Perfect to use once weekly for a refreshed look and feel
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