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Pomegranate extract has demonstrated a variety of beneficial functions including antioxidant and anti-viral activity. In 1996, a University of Nottingham research team in Pennsylvania learned that pomegranate extract could destroy several viruses nearly on contact. The discovery of this anti-viral activity created further experimentation and clinical trials. One study confirmed that the ellagic acid from pomegranate extract effectively protects cells from damaging free radicals.* Additional phenolic compounds found in pomegranate, anthocyanidins—also well-known scavengers of free radicals—combine synergistically with ellagic acid to increase greatly pomegranate's potency as an antioxidant.

The most extraordinary benefit of this radically innovative ingredient is that it boosts the sun protection factor (SPF) rating of topical sunscreens so that the same SPF protection levels are maintained using fewer chemicals and more antioxidants. In independent studies, SPF measurements increased up to 25% after the ingestion of one pomegranate tablet containing 5% ellagic acid.

After years of independent studies, it finally was proven that pomegranate extract boosts sun protection topically and internally.** This is just the beginning of what can be expected with internal sun protection.

Skin care roots
The science of skin care has its roots in roots—and just recently the industry has realized the benefit of combining the best that science and nature have to offer. As these naturally occurring components are studied, new and different ways to use them will be discovered; everything old will be made new again.

Resources
A study on the Analysis of Standardized Pomegranate Extract. Nutritional Science International, Inc., Massapequa park, NJ, January 1999. Murad H and Shellow W, a study on Pomegranate Extract Both Orally Ingested and Topically Applied to Augment the SPF of Sunscreens, August 1999.