Under the initiative of the Bay Area-based Teens for Safe Cosmetics, like-minded ecoconscious companies — including Pomega5! — have banded together to create a line that attains Whole Foods Market Premium Body Care seal, the most comprehensive body care standards. Each brand has used a holistic approach in creating its products, incorporating how age, variation in skin type, and environment can effect the teenage skin. For the first time in history, Teens Turning Green will offer teenagers a line of safe products, made specifically for their skin.

Pomega5 is proud to participate in the launch of Teens Turning Green, the first line of sustainable, safe and premium quality skin care products formulated specifically for teens. In fact, Pomega5 founder, Tzeira Sofer, rolled up her sleeves and got to work as soon as she learned about the Teens Turning Green collection! The teens’ interest in her natural, botanically-based line led Sofer to create a wide array of samples of her  Cleansing Bar for the girls to choose from. Upon selecting their favorite attributes from amongst the bars to create the ultimate cleanser, the teens loved the result so much that they asked Sofer to create two additional products – Pomegranate Toning Mist and Perfectly Pom Moisturizer – to round out the Teens Turning Green skin regime.

A bit of information about these fabulous teen products by Pomega5:

• Pomegranate Blemish Cleansing Bar - Hand-made using traditional soap-making methods, the Pomega5 Pomegranate Blemish Cleansing Bar packs powerful clearing agents, namely essential oils of myrtle, lemongrass and eucalyptus. This olive oil-based, naturally preservative-free bar cleanses face and body, while the mini bark particles found at the soap’s edges gently exfoliate. The Pomegranate Blemish Bar cleanses and disinfects pores without drying, leaving skin supple and senses enlivened.
• Pomegranate Toning Mist - Encased in a sleek, glass spray bottle, the Pomega5 Pomegranate Toning Mist is the icing on the cake that is the Teens Turning Green collection. This refreshing facial spray is based on toning distilled waters of rose and cornflower. Cucumber and mallow flower work to naturally balance the skin’s pH, while antioxidant-rich pomegranate seed oil purifies, soothes and protects. A touch of lime blossom provides an innocently fresh, clean and citrusy scent.
  
• Perfectly Pom Moisturizer - This lightweight, balancing, and soothing hydrator is jam-packed with its namesake antioxidant ingredient, pomegranate seed oil, along with healing calendula and purifying verbena and lemongrass. Perfectly Pom Moisturizer is formulated entirely from scratch without any fillers, parabens or synthetic fragrances. Perfect for all skin types, particularly oily or problem skin, the deliciously-fragrant cream feels soft and silky to the touch, yet absorbs immediately to leave skin with a healthy glow and a renewed freshness.

Teens Turning Green will be hitting the shelves at Whole Foods nationally in October 2008 — we can’t wait! It is our hope that Teens Turning Green will help inspire the young generation to care for their health in a way that respects both themselves and the planet, as well as teach those around them about the importance of greening their lives.

Click here to read the official press release.