Journal — Rose damask

  Rosewater is one of the oldest cosmetics and ironically one of the most effective.  It’s packed with anti-aging, skin-cell renewing, complexion brightening, antibacterial, and ph-balancing powers.  It gently resurfaces and renews your skin to diminish wrinkles and premature aging and creates a soft, luminous, radiant complexion. Rosewater is one of the few cosmetics that a person can use from adolescence to maturity, because it fights both acne and wrinkles.  The gentle anti-bacterial properties of rosewater discourage acne and ingrown hairs, making it the ideal aftershave tonic. Apply immediately after cleansing by pouring into a spray bottle and misting your face or with...

Rosewater is actually the byproduct of steam distilling rose petals into essential oil or the highest grade of distillation: absolute.  Indian Damask Rosewater is steam distilled hydrosol water made from Rosa Damascena rose petals.  Rosa Damascena or Rose Damask has a bright heirloom rose smell.  The kind of smell until recently seemed to have been bred out of commercially available roses.  I come across several 50-60 year old heirloom rose bushes on my usual walking route and I always stop and smell the sublime berry-like scent when one is in bloom. As opposed to the Bulgarian rosewater that I sell,...