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Home » Plant-Based Recipes » Healthy Dessert Recipes » Raw Calendula Beauty Bars

Raw Calendula Beauty Bars

Published: Jul 30, 2014 · Modified: Feb 10, 2019 by Lauren Glucina • Naturopath, Nutritionist

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These beauty bars are packed full of ingredients to support healthy skin - inside and out!

Raw Calendula Beauty Bars

Calendula is herb with an affinity for the skin. These raw bars are filled with their bright orange petals, in addition to anti-aging and antioxidant rich goji berries. A powerful combo!

Continuing on with last week’s theme of natural remedies in your own kitchen – today I have prepared a simple recipe that uses a common plant from the garden – Calendula. Calendula is that happy, bright yellow orange flower also known as pot marigold. It is often planted to help attract the bees as well as deter pests. Calendula has her own special healing powers, a well known remedy for all kinds of problems associated with the skin, and it’s for this reason that calendula is a popular ingredient in many herbal creams.

Calendula helps to soothe inflammation of the skin, and is helpful for eczema, psoriasis and acne. It is also good for wounds and physical injuries, as it has antiseptic and astringent qualities. 

Finally, not skin related but useful to know all the same, calendula can be used for gastro-intestinal problems. The plant's astringent qualities enable it to draw skin and tissue together, making it great for ulcers, stomach cramps, and diarrhoea.

Carrots and Goji Berries for extra beautifying

All things bright red, orange and yellow tend to be good for the skin, they are rich in beta carotenes, the pigment in the plant that gets converted to vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A helps protect your eyes, can reduce wrinkles, improve wound healing, and soothe skin conditions. The carrots and goji berries in this recipe give us all of the above.

I used rice malt syrup to sweeten the recipe, but you easily sub it out for coconut nectar or pure maple syrup – Manuka honey would also be great (another good one for the skin!). White miso is in there because it sneaks in a little good bacteria, and lends a subtle salty taste. You could also run with the flower theme and sprinkle in some flower essences for some extra magic.

Happy beauty bar making, beauties!

Raw Calendula Beauty Bars

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Raw bars stacked high on a plate with a calendula flower beside it as decoration

Raw Calendula Beauty Bars

Naturopath Lauren Glucina
Raw bars filled with a myriad of ingredients that help promote healthy, glowing skin - notably - the herb calendula.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 20 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Gluten free, Raw, Vegan
Servings 8
Calories 298 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 heaped cup calendula petals
  • ¾ cup grated carrot
  • ½ cup shredded coconut
  • ½ cup almond meal
  • 1 cup almonds
  • ¼ cup goji berries
  • ¼ cup sunflower seeds
  • ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
  • 2 tablespoons chia seeds
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla paste/essence
  • ½ cup coconut butter
  • ¼ cup rice malt syrup
  • 1 teaspoon white miso
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest

Instructions
 

  • Place the coconut butter and rice malt syrup in a jug, and rest it over a bath of hot water to soften or liquefy.
  • Roughly blitz the whole almonds in the food processor, just a little – we want to have a few chunks in there.
  • Add all other dry ingredients, except the flower petals and goji berries, and pulse till combined.
  • Pour the coconut butter and rice malt syrup into the mixture, and add the vanilla paste, pulse again till combined.
  • Add the flower petals and goji berries at the end for one final quick pulse.
  • Transfer mixture to an 8 inch square cake tin lined with baking paper, use the back of a spoon to flatten the surface. Press slivered almonds over the top to decorate, and perhaps some extra orange zest.
  • Freeze to set, cut into 8 large bars to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 298kcal
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Nutrition Facts
Raw Calendula Beauty Bars
Amount Per Serving
Calories 298
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

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About the Author

I’m Lauren, practising Naturopath, Medical Herbalist, Nutritionist, and essential oils educator in Auckland, New Zealand. I’m incredibly passionate about food as medicine, and helping connect people with the healing power of Nature.

BNatMed, AdDip NutMed, BCS, Certified FitGenes Practitioner.

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  1. Donna

    July 10, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    I love your blog! So inspiring! I was just wondering if it's possible to make this with dried calendula rather than fresh? Unfortunately I don't have any fresh calendula accessible to me.

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  2. Nora Barnard

    October 01, 2019 at 3:43 am

    I'm really excited to try this, but what exactly is almond meal? Is it raw? I think the kinds I've seen in the store are usually blanched. Do you have a particular brand or way of making your own?

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  3. Brenda Breuer

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    siii

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  4. Bindi Dreamtime

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    Yes Lauren.. I totally agree with Alice ..your style is divinely beautiful ..healing and nourishing in every way ..they lift me up as soon as I see your photos of deliciousness and read your recipes. Much respect and gratitude as always ..you are indeed a special shining SisStar 🙂 ♡

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  5. The Whole Daily - with Alice N

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    This looks so amazing. I picked some calendula flowers from our local community garden yesterday in preparation for these! You have an amazingly beautiful style my love. XX

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  6. Maritza Pedraza

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    Another beautiful creative and delicious recipe. thank you Lauren

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  7. Ascension Kitchen

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    Hi there, absolutely - might be best to source them organic if possible, L

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  8. Food Moods

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    Hi Lauren, thanks for sharing the recipe for these beauties 🙂
    Would it be possible to use dried calendula petals if I can't get hold of fresh ones?
    Thank you!

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  9. Steven Glucina

    October 01, 2019 at 3:52 am

    I met your mum and Dad (cousin Michael) at the Dean funeral today and they both told me how proud they were of you Lauren and your Ascension Kitchen business. I'm looking for a lifestyle change and I will try some of your recipes. Keep up the good work!

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