Monday, August 16, 2010

Botanical Beauty Benefits : Roses

The linoleic and linolenic essential fatty acids in rosehip oil have been shown to offer fabulous results of cell regeneration and super hydration. High concentrations of vitamin A also help treat eczema, acne scars, sun-damage or mature skin. Rose petals have great astringent, bactericidal and some aphrodisiac properties as well.

Some great rose based eco-beauty products are:

White Rose Cleansing Blend


Weleda Wild Rose DeodorantYou can read more on beauty benefits from flowers here.

Happy Monday! ;)
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  1. All the more reason to love roses! Thank you for these lovely and super-informative posts, as always :)
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  3. Roses is such a sweet scent, it always reminds me of my childhood... our mom would buy my sis' and me rose scented perfume form Avon as kids. :) Would love to try the soap!
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  4. So not only are flowers beautiful... but they're good for us! Love it!

    Happy Monday to you my friend!
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  5. Great post! I love Bach's Rock Rose which is a dropper of the essence and it calms you down. SO good for stressful days. I know it's not necessarily a beauty product but one does feel more beautiful when they aren't stressed, right?
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  7. Yay! They are my favorite flower:)
    Hope you had a great weekend!
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  8. get me some rose petals STAT iva!! ixnay on mature skin!!

    xoxo,
    carrie
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  9. I love roses so much and I think it's awesome that they have so many wonderful natural properties. They were my wedding flower. Cliched but it's what I always dreamed.
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  10. Good to know. Roses are amazing!
    Have you ever tried NuSkin? They just came out with "future serum" that is AMAZING.
    xoxoxo
    Denalee
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  11. Ooh, you know what else is rose-fab? Korres' wild rose line, particularly the face cream. It makes your face as soft as a rose petal and the smell is heaven, absolute heaven! http://www.korresusa.com/product/6188/moisturizer/skincare/collections/wild-rose
    I love it so much :)
    xoxo J
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  12. I love the smell of roses but only in its natural form, not in products.
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  13. Thanks your blog is wonderful and I must follow you;)
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  14. Oh my gosh! This must be the night to read your blog! I've been searching for a natural deodorant that works! thank you!
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