What Are The Pumpkin Benefits For Skin?

The change in the weather doesn’t just mean it’s time for those cute sweaters and all those tasty pumpkin recipes. It also means it’s time to to explore pumpkin facial benefits and pumpkin facials!

This hardy vegetable may be the focal point of fall recipes, but adding it to your skincare regimen will also keep your skin looking fantastic during this season. Since it’s great for all skin types, here’s what to know about pumpkin skincare. 

What Does Pumpkin Do For Your Skin?

Pumpkin has some impressive benefits for your skin including anti-aging, hydration, brightening, and restorative effects. The enzymes in pumpkin are key to helping skin cells regenerate and repair for your best skin. 

- Anti-Aging Benefits

Those pumpkin enzymes along with its bounty of alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) are responsible for busting up those dead skin cells. This speeds up cell regeneration to give you smoother, glowing skin. These enzymes are rich with antioxidant vitamins A and C that refine skin to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. 

That orange color you notice most about pumpkins reveals its beta-carotene content which can boost your collagen production too. Additionally, it helps reverse damages caused by UV rays and improve the appearance of dark spots. 

- Skin Hydration

If your skin tends to feel drier with the fall weather, turn to pumpkin for skin hydration. The same antioxidants that can help with fighting the signs of aging also help soften and soothe dry skin. Along with essential fatty acids and vitamin E, skin is nourished and full of life.

- Brightening 

With alpha hydroxy acids and fruit enzymes, it’s the perfect match to help brighten up dull skin. By removing those dead skin cells, pumpkin helps your skin look brighter and younger too.

- Fight Free Radicals

Free radicals are attacking your skin at every turn, speeding up the aging process. With pumpkin’s high content of vitamin C and beta-carotene, it fights those free radicals away, reversing the damages caused by UV damage and renewing the health of your skin.

Best Skincare Products with Pumpkin for a Pumpkin Facial

While you enjoy all those tasty pumpkin soups, smoothies, and pies, don’t forget to treat your face to this all-star ingredient. Sonage’s Pom Crush Detox Enzyme Mask is the way to give skin the jumpstart it needs. 

This probiotic enzyme peel helps detoxify and rebuild your skin with fermented fruit enzymes from pumpkin, pomegranate, pineapple, figs, papaya, and astaxanthin. It gently exfoliates to give you bright and radiant skin. With pumpkin, using it one to three times per week is advised. You’ll want to cleanse skin first before applying this peel, let it sit for 10 minutes, and then rinse away. Follow with a Sonage moisturizer to finish it all up and you’ll glow all fall!

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