Rosehip has many cosmetic benefits and also makes the skin more elastic

Rosehip oil is high in bio-available vitamin C as well as other components and offers many excellent benefits to the skin - boosting regeneration of the skin and making the skin more elastic as well.

The seed power of the rosehip is also used - and for more information on the seed power, please click here.

Rosehip is used in the following of our products Rejuvenating Face Wash Rejuvenating Toner Purifying Face Mask Problem Skin Night Lotion Problem Skin Spot Treatment Problem Skin Face Mask Moisturizing Hand and Body Balm Nail and Cuticle Balm Intensive Hand Treatment Balm Nourishing and Refreshing Foot Cream

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• Benefits of rosehip oil in skin care products
• Effectiveness of rosehip oil
• Classification of rosehip oil as a cosmetic ingredient

Benefits of rosehip oil in skin care products

Rosehip is a fairly new ingredient in modern cosmetic skin care products, but has gained a great following by people in the know, as it contains good amounts of vitamin C, which is not only healing but is also a wonderful ingredient in anti-aging products.

We make use of rosehip oil in many of our products, to introduce the benefits of a bio-available vitamin C to the skin. This form of vitamin C in the oil medium is non-irritating to the skin, and prevents the "Fenton reaction", which is a normal reaction that water-soluble vitamin C has when interacting with the iron in the skin. A hydroxyl free radical forms in this action - which does not happen when the vitamin C in rosehip oil interacts with the skin.

Other constituents include boron, capric acid, tannins, catechin-tannins, citric acid, essential oil, epicatechin, flavonoids, gallocatechin, invert sugars, isoquercitrin, kaempferol-3-glucoside, leucoanthocyanins, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, lycopene, magnesium, malic acid, pectin, protein, rubidium, rubixanthin, succinic acid, sucrose, alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), vanillin, xanthophyll and zeaxanthin. ^{REF 41}

It acts as a fixative and is refrigerant, while also having astringent and diuretic properties. It has exceptional emollient properties, while also acting as an antioxidant. ^{REF 52 - 53}

It is high in GLA, which help reduce the signs of aging, especially the fine lines around the eyes (crow's feet) and lines around the mouth, as well as combating the drying effects of the sun, environment and climate.

Effectiveness of rosehip oil

In the research done by Dr Bertha Pareja and Dr. Horst Kehl, it was found that daily applications of rose hip oil helped with wrinkle reduction, as well as fading sun damaged areas of the skin. Twenty women aged between 25 and 35 years were used as test subjects, over a four-month period, and all reported a visible improvement to the skin.

Due to the high levels of the fatty acids - linoleic (47.4%) and linolenic (33%) - it helps the skin to heal and speeds up regeneration, while preventing the formation of thick keloid scar tissue (the over thickening and formation of fibrous tissue of the skin when forming scar tissue) and is helpful in healing burns, scars and stretch marks.

The success rate of attenuating and reducing the formation of keloid scar tissue and loosening up fibrous cords is successful in both accidental and surgical scars. ^{REF 54}

Fatty acids are essential building blocks of cellular membranes, to allow efficient transportation of nutrients from the extracellular space into the intracellular environment where metabolism takes place.

Besides the non-saturated fatty acids, the presence of carotenoids, flavonoids and trans-retinoic acid has also been detected in this oil and these could be responsible for some of the pharmacological and therapeutic properties of rose hip oil.

In a further study, it was found that it was useful when used on surgical scars (applied twice daily). The scars were less apparent, the skin more elastic and the color also improved significantly compared to patients not using it. The same success is reported on burns, when the oil was used to reduce scarring and returning the tissue to its normal and natural coloring.

It penetrates the skins very quickly, making it a good moisturizer and with all the other positive properties, and its tissue regeneration action, it is easy to understand why it is also described as the "oil of youth".

Classification of rosehip oil as a cosmetic ingredient

Rosa rubiginosa seed oil is the oil expressed from the seeds of Rosa rubiginosa (also known as Rosa affinis rubiginosa) and is classified as a fat and oil. It is used as an emollient skin-conditioning agent and is also known as rosehip oil as well as Rosa mosqueta in its native country of manufacture - Chile, where it grows wild in the Andes.

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Rosehip seed power

We use finely ground power from the rosehip seeds to form a natural exfoliating medium in our Rejuvenating Face Scrub. This seed power provides gentle removal of dead skin cells, without causing any injury to the skin, as it has no sharp edges.