Rose Oil Soothing Skin And Women’s Health

Stills  recommends cancer patients undergoing radiation apply rose cream to protect skin. Rose heals wounds, and its antioxidant properties and scent make it a popular cosmetics ingredient.

Rose’s antioxidant properties help minimize damage to collagen and DNA, preventing sun and pollution-related skin damage.

                                                                                                                                  

“There are so many studies that have demonstrated how topical retinoids (Vitamin A) can help reduce the signs of aging by increasing cell turnover, thickening skin, reducing pigmentation and minimizing fine lines,” she wrote in an email. “Rose hip and rose oils contain high levels of plant-based vitamin A, which can be a natural way to exfoliate dull skin, reduce the appearance of scars and uneven pigment and regenerate fresh, new skin cells.”

Rose’s gentleness makes it good for dry, sensitive, and aging skin. Rose has an astringent effect on the capillaries just below the skin surface, which makes it useful in reducing redness caused by dilated capillaries, as in rosacea.

Rose oil can be recommends for breastfeeding women who have the beginning stages of mastitis. Rose is very important.

In TCM, roses move energy and blood, and it often used in formulas for digestive problems and “almost anything women’s reproductive issues.

Rose always brings us back to the mind-body connection. “It has to do with stress in the body,” Lashai said in a phone interview. “In Los Angeles, my patients have a lot of stress just in their daily lives, getting from point A to point B.”

“Just last week I had a patient who was pregnant, stressed, and not getting a lot of sleep. It was an emergency situation. Her blood pressure and heart rate were going up, so I used rose oil on her pulse points to calm her down, and gave her rose petal tea to take at night, along with magnesium and passion fruit. I have a three and five year old myself, so I have rose tea to calm down, too.”

Safety And Contraindications

Rose is safe to use every day, just not too much. It’s like orange. One orange a day is safe, 20 in a day will start to wreak havoc on your digestive system.

Rose is in the same family as many antioxidant-rich fruits, such as cherries, strawberries, and raspberries. Roses are edible and widely used in Indian and Iranian culinary traditions.

Roses grown for sale at florists are not food grade. They are usually grown with fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides, and sometimes fumigated when imported to the United States. They should not be eaten, or put in a bath for soaking.

Also, some products called rose essential oil sold for fragrance may be synthetic, which do not contain rose’s medicinal qualities. Rose oil is expensive, so a cheap oil is likely synthetic.

Rose essential oil or rose hip oil should be therapeutic or food grade [hips are the fruit of the rose plant, which form after the flower is pollinated]. Rosewater for adding to food is easily found where Indian or Iranian groceries are sold. Many natural health stores will carry a rosewater hydrosol, with aromatherapy benefits at a cheaper price than the essential oil.

Medicinal-grade roses may be cultivated, but gardeners should grow them organically and try to find varieties with the highest concentrations of therapeutic oils. Iranian strains have been noted in some of the research cited in this article within the Rosa damascena species.

Rose and rose hip oil and tea show promise for treating cancer and heart disease in preliminary research, but they are not yet widely used. Fortunately, rose is gentle enough to enjoy as a tea, so people curious to integrate roses into their daily diet can purchase dried food-grade rose buds or petals and brew them as a tea, and add them to bathwater for a relaxing soak.

And people who are concerned about heart disease or cancer may want to integrate plenty of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich foods into their diets. Enjoy spices such as cloves, cinnamon, turmeric, basil, and sage; fruit such as apples, blueberries, blackberries, and plums; and vegetables such as beets, artichokes, broccoli, spinach, and bell peppers.

Rose’s history is long, its symbolism rich, and its future as a medicine may just be beginning.