Lilly Pilly – Australia’s Anti-Aging Wonder Fruit

Australia is home to some very unique plants, such as the Kakadu Plum with its extremely high vitamin C content and the Quandong berry known for its qualities such as rutin which helps keep capillaries strong to reduce redness. The main focus is on Lilly Pilly berries and their anti-aging abilities and high vitamin C content.

Lilly Pilly grows in rainforest in the North-East and South East regions of Queensland, it’s also found in North-Eastern parts of New South Wales. The Lilly Pilly is a shrub type plant that is part of the myrtle family. The leaves on the bush have a smooth, waxy texture and the berries themselves are dark red with a clove like smell. Gardeners today use the Lilly Pilly as a fashionable hedge.

Aboriginals have used Lilly Pilly for centuries are a very good source of Vitamin C, as well as the Lilly Pilly’s anti-bacterial properties. As like the Kakadu Plum, Lilly Pillies are extremely high in Vitamin C and as everyone knows Vitamin C is needed for the skin to keep tight and youthful looking. Hence why Lilly Pillies are a very sort after ingredient in anti-aging products.

Vitamin C assists in the formulation of creating collagen, which is what keeps skin looking and feeling youthful, couple this with the powerful antioxidants also found in Lilly Pilly and you have a very important key to looking young and gorgeous for a very long time. Lilly Pilly also possesses astringent properties, this is what helps to keep the tissues in the skin contracted and firm hence improving the skins elasticity, this means that the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines become less visible.

With qualities like these it’s easy to see why Lilly Pilly is such a popular and much sort after skin care ingredient, with all those anti-aging benefits both men and women are sure to benefit from this purely and uniquely Australian anti-aging wonder fruit.