13 Awesome Benefits Of Rose Water For Skin, Hair, Eyes And Health

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Almost every Indian household has rosewater stored at home. And this is for very good reasons too. The reason is – it is a magical potion which is versatile in beauty regimes for hair, skin and overall health, well-being too. You could have dry or frizzy hair, normal to dry skin or oily skin, and maybe bad stomach issues- rosewater would help.

So today, let’s take a look at what is rose water, its importance and benefits, and how drinking it and using it can help us tons. Please read on and be well-informed for the same.

What is Rose Water?

The flavoured water, rosewater is made by soaking plenty of rose petals in clear water. Widely used in treating skin allergies, hair and health issues, rose water has ancient homeopathic roots traces. Let us now take a look at the rosewater benefit lists.

Here is the List of Rose Water Benefits:

1. Rose Water For Skin

Love your skin a little more by giving it more pampering and sweet touches, with the help of rosewater. This is especially during the parched summers where you would want to maintain the hydration levels of the skin, so that it doesn’t look dull and dead.

What you need

• Rose petals

• Water

• Spray Bottle

How to Use:

• Soak a bunch of rose petals into a bowl of water and leave overnight.

• The next morning, boil this concoction and reduce it to half its water level.

• Bring it to room temperature and store in a spray bottle.

• Keep this bottle in the fridge.

• Every morning, noon and night, or whenever you have the time or wherever you are, use the spray on your skin.

Benefits

1. It would help cool the skin

2. It would cleanse the pores of the skin and hence fight skin issues such as acne

3. It would help smoothen the skin tone and

4. It would help rejuvenate and keep the skin super hydrated too.

2. Rose Water For Oily Skin

Rose water will help fight off skin issues like oily skin, by not allowing dirt, grime, bacteria and pollutants to set home on the surface of the skin or the pores of the skin. For oily skin, what you need here is a toning cum cleansing effect with rosewater. This will help reduce the pimples and acne issues, by ensuring that the pores are reduced

What you need

• Rosewater

• Apple cider vinegar

• Spray Bottle

How to Use:

• To make this concoction, you would need a cup of rosewater and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.

• Mix the two and keep it in a spray bottle, in the fridge.

• Spray this when cold, thrice on your face- morning as you wake up, after your lunch at noon and at night before bedtime.

Benefits

1. The pores are deep cleansed

2. The excess oils of the oily skin are removed sans damages

3. The skin is left hydrated and moisturised

4. Inflammation and eruptions of the skin are kept at bay

3. Rose Water Benefits For Face

Rosewater is an excellent astringent too, and this is why after facials the beauty parlor lady would spray rose water on the face. This helps close the pores that are open. Moreover, when you spray rosewater, it helps tighten blood capillaries as well, brings down blotchiness and redness too.

What you need

• Cotton balls

• Concentrated rosewater

How to Use:

• Start by making small cotton balls the size of your fist.

• Immerse them in concentrated rosewater and leave it in the fridge to cool.

• The next morning, take two balls of cotton which are rosewater soaked and squeeze out the liquid.

• Gently place the flattened cotton balls onto the lids and relax for ten to fifteen minutes.

• Remove and wipe your face with fresh cotton immersed in rosewater.

• This should be done twice a day, daily.

Benefits

• The best way to use rosewater as a toner is to first boil a cup of rose petals in two cups of clear water.

• Bring the water to half and strain the petals.

• Pour the rose water prepared into a spray bottle, and house it in the fridge for the night.

• The next day, thrice a day after you wash your face, spray the rosewater as a toner onto the skin.

• Dab with a piece of cotton and go about your day.

Benefits

1. Rosewater helps hydrate the skin

2. Rosewater reduces the size of pore openings

3. Rosewater helps moisturize the skin

4. Rosewater helps keep the inflammation and sun burn at bay

5. Rose Water for Skin Lightening

Rosewater with a dose of vitamin C can help with the brightening process in the best ways, sans any damage.

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What you need

• Rosewater concentrate

• Lemon concentrated juice

• Cotton pads

How to Use:

• Take a cup of rosewater concentrate and add to this, half a cup of lemon concentrated juice.

• Mix well and dab a large cotton ball in it.

• Squeeze the liquid out of the cotton and gently rub the face in circular motions.

• Once this is done, wait for ten minutes.

• You may cover the eyelids with two cotton pads dipped in pure rosewater and wait.

• Remove and wash the face with clear water.

Benefits

1. The skin toning is done and the pores are reduced

2. Skin tan is removed to a large extent thanks to lemons

3. Skin damage is brought down thanks to the antioxidants in rosewater

4. Skin is safe from malnourishments, thanks to the vitamin C from lemons

6. Rosewater After-Sun Body Spray

The summer sun can be harsh on us, and the harmful UV rays can do more damage than good to the skin. This is why, our skin needs a lot of protection and just by using an SPF50 every day, the matter wouldn’t solve. What you need is added protection, and this is what rosewater would do.

What you need

• Rosewater concentrate

How to Use:

• Before you apply makeup, you must wash your face well with rosewater concentrate.

Benefits

1. The pores are closed to a large extent

2. The skin is kept moisturized and hydrated

3. The skin tone is kept smooth and even

4. The skin would have a pH balance well-maintained, and the tanning would not happen when there is natural oil protection on the skin.

7. Rose Water Benefits For Hair

Every woman on this planet desires to have beautiful, lustrous and bouncy, shiny hair, and so would you, isn’t it? This is why; we would use rosewater to ensure the best of hair quality comes to you.

What you need

• Rosewater

• Aloe Vera gel

How to Use:

• Take equal parts of rosewater and aloe vera gel.

• Mix the two and rub it deep into the scalp and emulsify the hair mid lengths and the hair roots too.

• Wait for half an hour and then wash off the hair mask.

• This is the best hair spa you could ask for.

Benefits

1. There would be great circulation on the scalp that promotes hair growth

2. The scalp would be cleansed and rinsed of dirt, bacteria and grime, since aloe vera is an antimicrobial agent and rosewater’s antioxidants help kill the free radicals on the scalp of the skin

3. The mixture helps prevent split ends

4. The mixture also helps bring back bounce and shine to the hair, while nourishing the hair follicles with vitamins and antioxidants

8. Rose Water Uses for Eyes

Thanks to the antiseptic and the antibacterial properties found in rosewater, there are many ways in which the liquid can be handy even for your eyes. For example, it removes the dirt and cleans the eyes.

What you need

• Rosewater

• Cotton pads

How to Use:

• Dip two cotton balls in the rosewater concentrate and keep it in the fridge overnight.

• The next morning, squeeze out the liquid and place the flattened cotton on the lids for ten minutes.

• Wait and remove.

• Wash off the face.

• You can also throw diluted rosewater into the eyeballs directly (NOT THE CONCENTRATE).

Benefits

1. Reduce the dryness of the eyeballs

2. Moisturize the skin on the lids of the eyes

3. Hydrate the skin and reduce puffiness of the eyes

4. Cleanse the eyeballs

9. Rose Water For Acne

The anti-inflammatory properties of rosewater would help bring down the itchiness and the redness associated with acne on the skin, and get rid of it too. It helps as a deep cleaning agent, and removes the dirt, grime and oil which have set home in the pores of the skin.

What you need

• Concentrated rose water

How to Use:

• What you need to do when you have pimples or acne would be to wash your face with concentrated rosewater every day, twice a day.

Benefits

1. Pores would be reduced size wise which means there would be lesser dirt accumulation in the pores and no eruptions thereof.

2. The antioxidants kill the free radicals on the skin and helps protect the skin from damages

3. The rosewater concentrate can help dry up the acne and pimples, since it is an antiseptic

4. Inflammation and itchiness would be brought down to a large extent; you wouldn’t itch and it wouldn’t spread infection too.

10. Rose Water for Health

The number of antioxidants and flavonoids present in rosewater along with anthocyanins, are large, and this is why it is helpful in fighting free radicals in the body and on the skin when used the right way. Moreover, there are vitamins found in rosewater which nourish the body and keeps the body hydrated.

What you need

• Blender

• Ice cubes

• Lime

• Honey

• Rosewater

• Coriander or mint for garnish

How to Use:

• You can make rosewater drinks for the summers at home.

• Do this by filling a blender full of ice, a dash of lime and honey, with a tablespoon of rosewater.

• Blend well and garnish with coriander or mint for an icy rosewater drink for the summer season.

Benefits

1. Hydrates the body inside out

2. The bacterial flora is cared for thanks to the antioxidants in rosewater

3. The vitamins in rosewater nourish the body

4. The inflammation within the body is brought down

11. Rosewater as a Lip Stain

Commercial lip stains are thin and they don’t last very long on the lips. Moreover, since most commercial lip stains have chemicals in them, the lip skin is left dry after removal. To avoid this from happening, you can use rosewater as a lip stain.

What you need

• Rosewater

• Glycerine

• Eye shadow

How to Use:

• Take your favorite eye shadow and put a few drops of rosewater in it.

• Form a mix and add a drop of glycerine to the mix.

• Pour into a lip balm container and keep it in the fridge overnight.

• The next morning your lip stain is ready to use.

Benefits

1. No dryness to deal with after removal of lip stain

2. The lips are protected by the antioxidants found in rosewater

3. The glycerine content manages the hydration part for the lips

4. The lips stay smooth, soft and supple

12. Rosewater as a Cleanser

To keep the skin safe and clean at all times is a big challenge. But we would make it easier for you to work with rosewater, ensuring the right natural cleansing process is done. This will not only cleanse your skin and the pores, but would also protect the skin too.

What you need

• Fuller’s earth

• Rosewater concentrate

How to Use:

• What you need to do here is to mix one part of fuller’s earth with half a cup of rosewater concentrate.

• Make a gooey mixture of the same and apply the face pack.

• Wait for half an hour and then wash off with cold water.

While the pack is drying up, these are the following benefits you shall receive-

Benefits

1. The vacuuming effect of fullers earth would cleanse the pores

2. The rose water antioxidants protects the skin from free radicals

3. Exfoliation is done and the pores and skin are left clean from dirt, grime, dead skin cells and pollutants that have housed onto the skin,

4. The skin is left soft, smooth and supple!

13. Mood Enhancer

• A cup of rosewater added to a bucket of bath water can help soothe the nerves and the skin.

• In fact, research shows that the rosewater in bathwater mix can also tone the skin.

• To have good night’s sleep; you can put some rosewater concentrate in a spray bottle, and spray your bed linen, sheets and pillows with it. This will absorb the smell of roses and you would get good sleep. The next morning you would wake up fresh and in a good mood too.

• Finally, after a parched hot day out there, the moment you splash cold rosewater on your face, the skin is hydrated and relaxed. This helps alleviate the mood levels and you would be happy too.

Now that we know of the various benefits of rosewater, and how to make them to use them, let’s take a look at what are the benefits of drinking rosewater every day too.

Benefits of Drinking Rose water

We have spoken extensively about the uses of rosewater for beauty needs and health. We now would want to emphasize on why rosewater is important for you to drink, and the reason is because of the various benefits it has. Don’t believe us, take a look below!

1. Your Skin Would Be Grateful

Thanks to the antioxidants and the hydration qualities in rosewater, when you consume rosewater daily, the skin would be hydrated inside out.

Rosewater has vitamins in it which nourishes the skin as well. You would thus have healthier and younger looking skin. And this is why they say, beauty is skin deep.

2. The reduction of acne

With plenty of antioxidants in rosewater, and in addition to it being anti-bacterial and an antiseptic, rosewater helps bring down the occurrence of acne and skin issues. This is because rosewater is an antimicrobial agent that kills the bacterial trails within the body. When the toxins from within are flushed out, the external parts of the body would glow.

3. As an elixir

Rosewater is known to be a youth elixir, and consuming it daily would bring down the signs of ageing and defy the occurrence of wrinkles too. Thanks to the presence of flavonoids and anthocyanins and antioxidants, all of this is possible when rosewater is consumed daily.

4. Helps keep the mind calm and cool

Research and studies have shown that the aroma of rosewater can help relax the nerves and calm the anxiety pangs too. In addition to that, it helps keep the inflammation within the body down, which means you wouldn’t be irritated too. Rosewater thus is a mood enhancer and an elixir to calm the soul

5. Reduces stress and depression

Daily consumption of rosewater is an aid to bring down depression and stress levels, say medical experts. At night when you consume diluted rosewater, it would help you relax and calm down the crankiness, and reduces the occurrence of insomnia too.

6. It has anti-inflammatory properties

Rosewater with its anti-inflammatory properties can relive the body from inflammations, and since it is an antiseptic it kills the bacteria within that cause gas and pains of the stomach.

7. For weight loss

Rosewater helps reduce the belly and makes the digestive system work efficiently too. It aids in evacuation and reduction of gas and toxins, which helps promote weight loss and losing of that belly too.

Now that we know what drinking rosewater can do for us, here are two recipes to make rosewater at home- one can be used as a toner topically and the other for consumption.

Rose Water Recipe

What you Need:

To make homemade rosewater to use as a toner you would need

1. A couple of organic roses

2. A bottle of distilled water

Homemade Rosewater Toner

1. Begin with removing the petals of the flowers and wash them with water

2. Add the petals to a pot of boiling distilled water and cover the pot

3. Wait for twenty minutes to boil the mixture and on low flame let it simmer

4. Strain the water

5. Store in a glass jar and use when needed.

Homemade Rosewater Face Toner:

• Pure rosewater as we made above

• A spray bottle of distilled water

How to use

• Start by mixing the two in the spray bottle

• Shake and spray on the face.

• Wipe face with cotton and pat dry gently

Final Words about Rose Water Benefits

For many centuries, the use of rosewater for health and beauty has been known to bring in a lot of benefits. From mild skin problems to hair issues and for overall health and well-being too, rosewater can do wonders.

We hope this mini guide on the benefits of using rosewater comes in handy. If you have more questions, please do write in!

Disclaimer: The benefits of rosewater for hair, skin and overall well-being has been written through research only. Please consult with your cosmetologist for more uses and if it should be used by you or not. The research here given is for informational use only and the words of the specialist would take precedence over what is written here and elsewhere online.

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