Introduction

Rose hip oil (also known as rosa mosqueta) is a wine colored oil from the ripened fruit and seeds of the Rose Hip. It is extremely high in essential fatty acids and now has much respect among professional skin care journals and organizations. It has a high vitamin content and is a natural source of Tretinoin the active ingredient in Retinol, Retin-A, Renova etc, and it has a high content of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) the water soluble version of the active ingredient in Dr Perricones wrinkle treatment system and many other skin care programs. It also contains high amounts of essential fatty acids, and antioxidants such as lycopene which help form the building blocks of healthy skin. 

Function

1. Rosehip Oil improves general quality of the skin of both sexes. Even men are using it
2. It helps promote accelerated healing of serious burns

3. Rosehip Oil helps in scar healing and sun skin care

4. It is excellent in treating dermatological problems after radiotherapy, darkening of the skin,dermatitis

5. It helps reverse ageing of the skin due to U.V. radiation damage

6.It helps in healing skin grafts, brown spots, deep lines associated with dry prematurely aged skin

7. It helps smooth out wrinkles and the problem of "crows feet" around mouth and eyes 

8. It has 80% fatty acids content contribute to the healing of damaged tissue repair and skin cell regeneration

Application 

1. Functional food, drinks, health care products and pharmaceuticals. 

2. Rose hip extracts are antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and astringent and have been used to soothe and 

heal irritated chapped skin.