Rosehips (Rosa Mosqueta)
Natural Skin Care

| About Rosehip | Rosehip Skin Care Products | Research/Studies on Rosehip |

The mystical wild rose bush with intense pinkish red berry-like (oval shaped) fruits (known as rosehip fruit) grows in lush mountain valleys of Andes Mountains (Chile, where it is known as Rosa Mosqueta).

In Soth America Rosehip oil has been used for generations to treat skin problems. It's healing properties were a well kept secret of the native Chile's people for centuries.

The Rosehip seeds are collected and processed to extract Rosehip oil, an essential polyunsaturated fatty acids containing high concentration of vitamin C which provides remarkable tissue rejuvenating and regenerating property that helps to prevent premature skin aging.

Rosehip Oil contains

• Essential Fatty Acids [namely oleic (15-20%), linoleic (44-50%) and linolenic (30-35%)]
• Carotenoids
• Flavonoids
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin A (retinoic acid)
• Vitamin E

These unique combination of ingredients in Rosehip oil make it extremely suitable for tissue regenerating and rejuvenating effects and restoring aged skin, photoaged skin, skin damaged by excessive exposure to sunlight without any side effects.

Healing Properties of Rosehip Oil

Rosehip Oil is a 100% natural oil with no chemicals containing only biological ingredients that are compatible to the skin, there is no risk of a allergic reaction. It is an inexpensive, safe and effective alternative to cosmetic surgery, laser surgery and micro peeling for reducing scars and other visible marks on skin.

• Dry Skin
  Rosehip Oil keeps an optimal balance of fatty acids and water in our skin which is affected by the lack of oil and moisture leading to dehydration and wrinkling of skin, It is a superb tissue hydrator, penetrating dry skin to restore moisture balance lost by climatic and environmental conditions.

• Scars and Pits
  associated with surgery, accidents, chicken pox, cuts, burns and acne.
  Rosehip oil remodels the damaged skin structure, replaces affected tissues with healthy skin tissues and improves the colour of the skin (i.e. reduces the redness or hyper pigmentation).

• Burned Skin
  Rosehip oil gives excellent results in the treatment on burned skin or on skin exposed to radiotherapy.

• Stretch Marks
  Rosehip oil replaces torn skin tissues to greately reduce the appearance of stretch marks, both in width and depth and also making a healthy and beautiful skin.

• Wrinkles
  Rosehip oil, due to its tissue regenerating and rejuvenating effects, checks and restores wrinkles, both their width and depth.

• Aged Skin
  Rosehip oil, due to its tissue regenerating and rejuvenating effects, checks and restores all the signs of skin ageing like wrinkles, sagging skin, pigmented spots, crows feet, etc.

• Pigmentation - Discoloration or hyperpigmented skin

• Youthful Appearance
  Rosehip oil, due to its tissue regenerating and rejuvenating effects is ideal as a preventive treatment for young skin. Its regular use helps to maintain a healthy, vibrant, beautiful and youthful appearance.

Roships Skin Care Products

Rosehip Seed Carrier & Skin Care Oil

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Rosehips Seed Pure Carrier Oil 8 oz: K Rosehip Tea Bags & Rosehip Powder Most essential oils are so strong that a little goes a long way. Essential oils should be diluted in carrier oils for use in massage. Avoid using mineral oils and baby oils for massage. Rosehip seed makes a good oil for cosmetics and for tissue regeneration. It is also good for eczema, psoriasis, PMS and menopause. It may be combined with calendula oil to treat stretch marks, burns or scars. This is a very pale yellow oil with a light texture. It contains up to 35% linoleic acid and 44% GLA. Our body care oils are usually used in conjunction with our essential oils. Vegetable oils are produced from nuts, seeds, grains and beans. They are sometimes referred to as fixed oils because they are not as volatile (easily evaporate) as essential oils. Vegetable Oils make an excellent base in which to dilute essential oils for body care products. Our vegetable oils are 100% pure and natural. Our cosmetic oils (such as Lanolin or Shea Butter) work well as carriers for essential oils and moisturizers. Click below for details and order Rosehips Tea, Rosehips Organic Oil, Facial Scrub, Revitalizing Cream Rosehips Tea Bags (Rosa canina) 1 lb: C Rosehips Powder (Rosa canina) 1 lb: K

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Research on Rosehip

The research studies suggest that Rosehips Oil applied twice a day, every day reduces scar tissue, helps to prevent and fade stretch marks, attenuates wrinkles and age spots, improves burned skin, aids in the treatment of dermatitis that results from radiotherapy, excellent to prevent photoaging and relieves dry skin and eczema.                       

The healing properties of Rosehip Oil or Rosa Mosqueta or Rosa Affinis Rubiginosa were mainly studied and first reported by Professor Bertha Pareja and Professor Horst Kehl in Dec. 1988. Since then, various studies on Rosa Mosqueta Oil have been completed at various universities in Chile and in other countries.

1. Dr Bertha Pareja,
   Principal Professor, Faculty of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, and
   Dr Horst Kehl,
   School of Pharmacology of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
   in their research paper entitled, Contributions to Identification and Application of Active Components Contained in Rosa Aff. Rubignosa, explain about their studies on Rosehip Oil.
   
   

   The following paragraphs are extracts from the paper.
   
   Application to Aged Skin
   
   

   Exposure to sun causes important morfological changes in skin. Dermatoheliosis appears in different ways and varying intensity ranging from surface wrinkles, active keratosis and variation in the distribution of the melanin granules.

   For this test volunteers were selected among people who usually spend the 3 months of summer in resorts by the sea or who go to the beach every day. The tests were carried out on 20 women, aged between 25 and 35, who were controlled and assessed during the summer of 1988. The most frequently noted cutaneous signs were surface wrinkles, brown spots, eyelids and, in some cases, only an intense tan. All applied rosehip oil on the face during four months (May to August, 1988).

   Observations were made every 8th days. Significant changes were noted starting on the third week. Firstly, surface wrinkles started to disappear, spots started to fade until, at the end of the fourth month, the disappearance was complete. Skin presented a smooth and fresh aspect and the spots had almost disappeared.
   
   Application to Surgical Scars

   For this test they selected 10 women, aged between 45 and 68, who had suffered unilateral or bilateral mastectomy and scars with equal features.

   Applications of rosehip oil were made, starting on the day when the surgical stitches were removed. After washing the area with tepid water and soap and careful drying, the oil was applied by soft massage. After three months of applying twice daily (morning and evening) it was noted that the scars were less apparent, without lumps and that skin elasticity had improved and the colour of the area had improved significantly.

   We carried out these observations until four months after the operations and the treating doctors indicated that the skin conditions were improving considerably, allowing implantation of prosthesis or plastic surgery in far better conditions than with patients who had not been treated.
   
   

2. Dr Harbst
   a surgeon and radiotherapist presently practising in Chile

   Dr Harbst uses Rosehip Oil for treating skin alterations especially secondary dermatititis which take place as a result of radiotherapy. He explains about the use of products containing Rosehip Oil:

   "As a radiotherapist, I work with several patients that have been operated upon and, therefore, have scars. Also, the radiation to which they are exposed may produce secondary effects on the skin such as inflammations, darkening and actinic dermatitis. These effects are, in most cases, unavoidable because in the same way that a surgeon leaves a scar when he or she operates, a radiotherapist leaves a mark on the radiated areas, which are not injuries as such but skin reactions.

   "I have applied Rose Hip Oil on all types of skin. Rose Hip Oil acts on scars reducing hyperpigmentation, flattening hypertrophia (bulky scars) and loosening up fibrous chords. All these effects end up in a near complete attenuation of scars.
   
   

3. Dr Leonardo Rusowsky
   surgeon at Enrique Deformes Hospital in Santiago, Chile,and acting president of the Corporation For Aid To Burnt Children.
   

   Dr Rusowsky is currently applying Rosehip Oil to burnt children in the way of compresses and massotherapy (massages carried out by kinesiologists to loosen up scars). Dr Rusowsky says, RoseHip Oil improves the texture and quality of skin by increasing its elasticity. Rose Hip Oil helps people who have suffered burns. Its effect, more than to flatten out hypertrophic and hyperplasic scars (raised and bulky scars), is to improve the colour of the scars and of the skin in the affected area.
   
   

4. Nancy Evans
   nutritionist and aromatherapist

   Nancy has been using Rosehip Oil for softening aged skin, balancing skin, soothing and deeply cleansing naturally. Nancy says, "Rrosehip oil is an excellent moisturer, high in Vitamin C and essential fatty acids." She has developed a range of Rosehip products for skincare.