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Pomegranate Hand Cream

Pomegranate Hand Cream
Irene Forte
Benefits
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Nourishing
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Redness
  • Cellular Anti-Ageing
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Regenerating
  • Anti-Pigmentation
  • Scar-Repairing
  • Brightening
  • Sculpting
  • Hydrating

The Irene Forte Pomegranate Hand Cream is a hydrating and nourishing silky textured hand cream, which sinks into the skin almost immediately. The hand cream’s light and non-greasy formulation also releases a beautiful fresh and sweet scent, enveloping your hands in comfort and luxury.

As well as being luxuriously comforting, this hand cream also contains many skin benefits focusing on reducing the signs of ageing with Calendula Flower, protecting the skin from environmental aggressors with its high antioxidant content Omega-Rich Oils, and soothing the skin with its plethora of concentrated formulations of Jojoba Oil, Olive Oil Fractions & Pro-Vitamin B5.

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The Irene Forte Pomegranate Hand Cream is a hydrating and nourishing silky textured hand cream, which sinks into the skin almost immediately. The hand cream’s light and non-greasy formulation also releases a beautiful fresh and sweet scent, enveloping your hands in comfort and luxury.

As well as being luxuriously comforting, this hand cream also contains many skin benefits focusing on reducing the signs of ageing with Calendula Flower, protecting the skin from environmental aggressors with its high antioxidant content Omega-Rich Oils, and soothing the skin with its plethora of concentrated formulations of Jojoba Oil, Olive Oil Fractions & Pro-Vitamin B5.

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  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
Who it is for
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For you if

Dry Skin

Dehydrated Skin

Ageing Concerns

Antioxidant Support

Red Cross
Not For you if

No Contraindications


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How to Apply
Massage into hands until product is fully absorbed.
Ingredients

Scroll down the page for a full breakdown of the active ingredients.

Aqua, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil*, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dicaprylyl Ether, Glycerin, CetearylAlcohol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice*, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Hydrogenated Olive Oil, Lecithin, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil*, Stearic Acid, Hydroxyacetophenone, Panthenol, Tocopheryl Acetate, 1,2- Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Behenyl Alcohol, Glycine Soja Sterols, Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract*, Allantoin, Olea Europaea Oil Unsaponifiables, Retinyl Palmitate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Punica Granatum Fruit Extract, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tropolone, Citric Acid, Glycine Soja Oil, Parfum**. *Organic ingredients. **Allergen-screened fragrance


Please note: The ingredients listed in this product are subject to change as the formulation is updated. We aim to update the INCI list as soon as possible, but we encourage you to read the ingredient list on the product itself to ensure it's suitable for your personal use.

Smell & Texture

Smells Like: A fresh Pomegranate scent with floral notes

Texture: A light and non-greasy texture that absorbs quickly into the skin

About the Brand
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Irene Forte founded her namesake brand with Dr. Francesca Ferri, a scientist with over 35 years of expertise, to bridge the gap between nature and clinical skincare. First created for Rocco Forte Hotel spas, the line pairs eco-friendly, vegan formulations that distil the sun-soaked richness of Sicilian botanical extracts like Olives, Almonds, and Prickly Pear. Each product reflects Irene’s vision of sustainable luxury rooted in science.

Irene Forte Skincare combines Mediterranean wellness with proven clinical efficacy. Each formula is vegan, eco-friendly, and enriched with natural anti-ageing actives that smooth and firm while deeply nourishing the skin. Clinically tested and spa-approved, the products deliver hydration, calm, and protection with luxurious scents and textures that bring the Rocco Forte spa experience home.

At the core is Myoxinol, a patented hibiscus seed peptide known as a plant-based Botox for its wrinkle-smoothing effect. Clinical trials show visible results in hydration and elasticity within days. Formulas unite Mediterranean botanicals with advanced actives, originally created for luxury Rocco Forte spas, and are rigorously tested for anti-ageing performance and skin tolerance.

The Benefits

  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation-Focused)
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Brightening
  • - + Sculpting
  • - + Hydrating
Skin Barrier Strengthening

Strengthening your skin barrier involves replenishing the key elements in the top layer of your skin (stratum corneum), leading to a stronger and healthier barrier. These essential elements include lipids (ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and Natural Moisturizing Factors (amino acids, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Various factors, such as incorrect skincare use, seasonal changes, and aesthetic treatments, can damage your skin barrier. When this happens, your skin loses excess water through Trans Epidermal Water Loss (T.E.W.L) and becomes less capable of defending against environmental stressors, resulting in dryness, sensitivity, and irritation.\n\nA healthy skin barrier is crucial for overall skin health as it helps prevent hydration loss, protects against environmental damage, and reduces the risk of skin conditions like eczema and acne. By strengthening your skin barrier, you ensure your skin remains well-hydrated, resilient, and protected.

Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss

Reducing Trans Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) is key to maintaining your skin’s optimal hydration levels. By strengthening your skin’s natural barrier, these ingredients prevent water from escaping, keeping your skin well-hydrated and plump. The result is a smoother, more supple complexion with improved texture and resilience, giving you a healthier, more radiant look.

Nourishing

Nourishing body care delivers deep comfort and softness through rich, replenishing textures. Formulated with oils, ceramides, and barrier-strengthening ingredients, these treatments restore essential lipids and hydration to improve resilience and suppleness. They instantly soothe dryness, smooth rough texture, and leave your skin feeling nurtured, calm, and visibly healthier. Well-nourished skin is more radiant, less reactive, and beautifully soft to the touch.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant Protection shields your skin and preserves its youthful glow. It refers to a defence system that protects against harmful molecules and keeps your complexion healthy and radiant. Free radicals, those incredibly reactive molecules, come from everyday sources like sunlight, diet, smoking, and pollution. They attack healthy cells, accelerating skin ageing, causing wrinkles, loss of firmness, pigmentation, and dullness. Incorporating antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, into your routine creates a protective shield on your skin. These powerful ingredients neutralise free radicals, preventing them from causing damage. The result is skin that stays youthful, firm, and luminous.

Anti-Redness

Anti-Redness skincare is all about reducing and preventing facial or body redness, which can result from irritation, skin conditions, compromised barriers, and hormonal changes. A targeted approach with multiple strategies works best for tackling redness. Anti-Redness formulations include active ingredients that soothe and strengthen your skin barrier. Their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties calm inflammation and protect against environmental irritants. Additionally, these ingredients have vasoconstrictive properties, meaning they reduce blood vessel dilation to lessen redness. Together, these actions help achieve a more even-toned, balanced complexion that's less prone to redness flare-ups.

Anti-Ageing (Glycation-Focused)

One of the lesser-known yet fundamental drivers of visible ageing is glycation, a process where circulating sugars in the skin bind to collagen and elastin fibres, causing them to stiffen, lose flexibility, and develop a yellowish cast over time. As these fibres cross-link, the skin’s support network becomes compromised, reducing its ability to resist mechanical stress. This leads to wrinkles, loss of firmness, slower repair capacity, and a dimmer, uneven radiance.

Formulations targeting glycation work to interrupt this process at its source while simultaneously supporting the skin’s natural ability to renew and protect its structural proteins. By helping preserve the quality and organisation of collagen and elastin, they reinforce the dermal matrix, enhance tensile strength, and improve how light reflects at the surface. Over time, this results in visibly smoother, plumper, and more resilient skin, with a restored luminosity that signals true skin health.

Anti-Wrinkle

Anti-wrinkle products work to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles by boosting collagen and elastin, essential proteins that keep your skin glowing. Collagen helps reduce wrinkle depth, while elastin shortens their length. Keeping your skin hydrated is crucial, as dehydration can make wrinkles more noticeable. For smooth, bouncy skin, ensure you stay well-hydrated and use products that promote collagen and elastin production.

Regenerating

Regenerating skincare actively stimulates the formation of new, healthier skin, working in alignment with the skin’s innate renewal processes. Central to this are growth factors—effectively encouraging the development of new skin tissue. Peptides complement this by acting as targeted messengers guiding the skin to rebuild with greater strength and structural integrity. Stem cell–derived actives further support this environment by delivering protective and regenerative signals that optimize cellular function and renewal. While these mechanisms are synonymous with advanced anti-ageing—improving firmness, elasticity and overall skin quality—they are equally valuable in addressing scarring, as they promote tissue repair, accelerate regeneration and help restore a smoother, more even skin surface.

Anti-Pigmentation

Dealing with pigmentation means targeting melanin overproduction to reduce dark spots and prevent new ones. Melanin production can be triggered by UV exposure, pollution, hormonal changes (like during pregnancy), and inflammation (from acne or cuts). This excess pigment is then transferred to surrounding cells in epidermis called keratinocytes, which then moves to the skin's surface, causing visible dark spots.

To treat hyperpigmentation, a personalised and consistent approach is needed. Our anti-pigmentation products include lightening agents to block tyrosinase (the enzyme that creates melanin), antioxidants to fight free radicals, and ingredients to speed up skin cell turnover, removing pigmented cells. Using broad-spectrum sun protection is crucial to prevent new pigmentation during treatment.

Scar-Repairing

Anti-Scarring skincare targets the textured scars left by acne breakouts. These scars form due to inflammation disrupting collagen and elastin fibres leading to uneven healing and indented areas. Anti-Scarring actives harness growth factors and exfoliating actives to stimulate cell repair and regeneration, optimising the skin's healing process to reduce scar formation. They also effectively diminish older scars, improving overall skin texture and leaving you with a smoother complexion and significantly reduced scar visibility.

Brightening

Brightening your skin means restoring its natural glow. One of the best ways to do this is through exfoliation. By exfoliating, you promote faster skin cell turnover, replacing old, damaged cells with fresh, radiant ones. This keeps your skin looking vibrant and healthy.

Sculpting

Lifting is all about visibly firming and tightening skin that shows signs of sagging. As we age, our skin produces less collagen and elastin, the proteins that keep it firm and elastic. Sun exposure and pollution make this worse, leading to a sagging appearance. Lifting products work by creating a tightening film on your skin for an immediate lift, while also rejuvenating it over time. These actives stimulate collagen production and improve skin tone and elasticity, helping to restore facial contours and enhance overall firmness.

Hydrating

Hydration is all about the water content in your skin that keeps it supple and healthy. Humectants, ingredients with water-binding properties, deliver this hydration by attracting water molecules from the atmosphere. For the best results, apply hydrating serums right after a shower. Humectants not only replenish your skin's hydration but also enhance its water retention, creating a long-lasting hydration reservoir. Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation-Focused)
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Brightening
  • - + Sculpting
  • - + Hydrating

Active Ingredients

  • - + Omega Rich Oils (3, 6, & 9)
  • - + Pomegranate Extract
  • - + Calendula Flower
  • - + Olive Oil Fractions
  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid
Omega Rich Oils (3, 6, & 9)

Omega Rich Oils combine a variety of oils rich in Omega Fatty Acids (3, 6 & 9), essential for skin health, as our skin can only produce minimal amounts. These fatty acids penetrate between skin cells, enhancing the skin's barrier function, boosting water retention, and nourishing the skin. They also contain natural antioxidants that protect against UV-induced damage and slow down cellular ageing.

Pomegranate Extract

Pomegranate Extract is renowned for its anti-ageing properties. Rich in antioxidants it protects skin cells from external aggressors, thus preventing cells from premature ageing.

Calendula Flower

Calendula Flower is known for its soothing, comforting and calming properties, making it ideal for delicate skins. Naturally rich in protective antioxidants, it shields the skin against free radical damage and supports cell renewal.

Olive Oil Fractions

Olive Oil Fractions are potent extracts from Olive Oil, packed with antioxidants, Squalane, and Phytosterols. This extract offers protective, nourishing, and soothing benefits. It also combats glycation, a process where sugars bind to proteins like collagen, preventing their breakdown and maintaining skin elasticity. Its versatility makes it suitable for all skin types, especially beneficial for dehydrated, weakened, and sensitive skin.

Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)

Panthenol, also known as Pro-vitamin B5, is a potent humectant renowned for its exceptional hydrating, repairing, and soothing qualities. When applied to the skin, Panthenol converts to Coenzyme A, an enzyme crucial for skin regeneration. Its versatile benefits and compatibility with all skin types make Panthenol a preferred choice for replenishing and fortifying dehydrated and compromised skin.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a powerful oil-soluble antioxidant renowned for its excellent skin-protecting and replenishing properties. It helps prevent premature ageing by safeguarding skin cell membranes from damaging free radicals. Its nourishing qualities strengthen the skin barrier, enhancing resilience against environmental aggressors and improving water retention by reducing trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL). Additionally, Vitamin E has soothing effect thanks to it anti-inflammatory properties.

Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid

Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid (LMW-HA) is a smaller, more penetrative form of hyaluronic acid. Unlike high molecular weight forms that primarily hydrate the skin’s surface, LMW-HA has the ability to penetrate deeper into the epidermis, where it attracts and binds water to maintain optimal moisture levels from within. This deep hydration helps improve skin elasticity, firmness and smoothness, while reducing the appearance of fine lines and dehydration-induced wrinkles. Additionally, it enhances overall suppleness, making the complexion look plumper and more resilient. It is ideal for dehydrated, dull or mature skin, and especially those in need of long-lasting hydration and improved texture.

  • - + Omega Rich Oils (3, 6, & 9)
  • - + Pomegranate Extract
  • - + Calendula Flower
  • - + Olive Oil Fractions
  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid
Omega Oils

Omega-rich oils are formulations combining oils abundant in essential omega fatty acids (3, 6, and 9), vital for maintaining skin health due to the skin's limited ability to synthesize these compounds. These fatty acids integrate into the lipid matrix of the stratum corneum, strengthening the skin barrier, enhancing water retention, and providing deep nourishment. Additionally, they are rich in natural antioxidants that mitigate oxidative stress, protect against UV-induced damage, and decelerate cellular aging processes, contributing to healthier and more resilient skin.

Spotlight

Omega Oils

Omega-rich oils are formulations combining oils abundant in essential omega fatty acids (3, 6, and 9), vital for maintaining skin health due to the skin's limited ability to synthesize these compounds. These fatty acids integrate into the lipid matrix of the stratum corneum, strengthening the skin barrier, enhancing water retention, and providing deep nourishment. Additionally, they are rich in natural antioxidants that mitigate oxidative stress, protect against UV-induced damage, and decelerate cellular aging processes, contributing to healthier and more resilient skin.

Why I love it

  • "Irene Forte is like a Mediterranean diet for my skin. Ingredients from their family Sicilian farm ensure unmatched quality and efficacy."

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Irene Forte Pomegranate Hand Cream with brown packaging luxurious skincare
    Irene Forte

    Pomegranate Hand Cream

    £70

    The Irene Forte Pomegranate Hand Cream is a hydrating and nourishing silky textured hand cream, which sinks into the skin almost immediately. The hand cream’s light and non-greasy formulation also releases a beautiful fresh and sweet scent, enveloping your hands in comfort and luxury.

    As well as being luxuriously comforting, this hand cream also contains many skin benefits focusing on reducing the signs of ageing with Calendula Flower, protecting the skin from environmental aggressors with its high antioxidant content Omega-Rich Oils, and soothing the skin with its plethora of concentrated formulations of Jojoba Oil, Olive Oil Fractions & Pro-Vitamin B5.

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