Rosehip Oil and its health benefits
Rose Hip is a shrub with
flexible stems, spines, and a single season flowers, five pink and white
petals, when the petals have fallen off, leave uncovered the fruit of the rose,
composed primarily of seeds (70% of its weight) and is from here, from where you
get the essential oil rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, with wonderful
regenerative properties on the skin, so it is considered the more effective in
power of cell regeneration.
Originating in Central
Europe, area of the Balkans, are also found in India and Africa, but its true
origin is in Europe, from where it led
to Chile and began to be cultivated to the Patagonia area.
After biochemical
studies in the Chilean University, its properties is corroborated as
regenerative agent of the cells of the skin, being in addition excellent
diuretic, and magnificent as homeopathic therapeutics in the renal lithiasis.
Its application for oral route as contribution of vitamin C is recognized, it
is therefore recommended to smokers, the consumption of tea of Rose Hip. Others of their important applications is to
stimulate our immune system, counteracting the effects of fatigue and
exhaustion due to stress.
Plastic surgeons and
dermatologists use it to treat scars, stains and burns, taking advantage of its
regenerative capacity on the fibroblast, and elastin, in addition to act
favoring the recovery of the collagen and the melanin (defenders of the
epidermal stratum), after having lost its basal structure, in the aftermath by
burns and acne.
Its action as potent
antioxidant helps prevent photoaging against the action of the solar, light
that is why it is widely used as regenerator of the skin of the face, emerging
wrinkles, spots, scars and stretch marks.
It has action
moisturizing, emollient, nourishing, repigmenting, and helping to restore the
texture and firmness with the recovery of the fiber elastic and collagen where
it acts, in addition to having direct action on the fibroblast, to restore
smoothness and flexibility in healing tissue.
Its antitumor action is
well known, since it serves in to recovering the melanin that protects the skin
from the effects of UVA radiation, But in addition, as a powerful antioxidant,
neutralizing free radicals product of metabolism, and improves the vascular
flow with great topical anti-inflammatory effect on affected areas, either by
sunlight or healing injury.
Its application in
creams for the face and affected parts of the body, must be always attached to
the use of topical sunscreens.
The use as essential oil
for massages at spas and beauty centers, is highly respondent, and widely used
in alternative medicine therapy.
