(9 products) Weleda Pomegranate

This popular range of firming day creams and night creams helps to reduce the signs of ageing and invigorates antioxidant cell production, and it also has a charming story behind the main ingredient.

In October it is all hands on deck for the pomegranate harvest for the 50 families practising organic agriculture in the valley of Karahacili, Turkey. This green and fertile basin has fruit trees everywhere, mainly pomegranate, but also lemons, oranges, apricots and figs.

Harvesting begins just after dawn, and the fruit hand-picked with the help of a knife. The precious fruits are then taken to Nigde, in the region of Cappadocia, where the pomegranates are first peeled by machine before the juice is pressed. Just a small proportion of the crop then passes through to the drying shed.

After drying, the seeds are sent to Germany to be cold pressed, to extract the valuable oil. To produce just 1kg of the precious oil in the Weleda Pomegranate range requires 500kg of pomegranates. As Weleda currently requires 1500 kilos of the oil each year, that means using 300 tonnes of fresh fruit which helps ensure farmers like Remci and his family have a reliable income.

All Weleda packaging is fully recyclable and of course, there is no animal testing, no petrochemicals and no genetically modified ingredients. Check out popular Weleda ranges such as Weleda skin care, hair care and baby care – all available at Big Green Smile.