Where is the scientific evidence for rose hips, rosa mosqueta and rose hip seed oil?
There is some on its use in skincare, and I have included the extract below, but there is more data on rose hips as an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, wound healing agent and in arthritis treatment. Until more research into its use as a wrinkle treatment is done, it remains firmly in the realm of ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ medicine. I wouldn’t worry too much about this. When you see ‘scientific experts’ in the media rubbishing traditional medicines ‘because they haven’t undergone double-blind placebo controlled clinical trials’ you should remember three things. 1) Only patentable substances have enough money thrown at them to do such expensive trials, usually. Just because something isn’t patentable doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Scientific research is littered with promising treatments you never heard about because there were less effective treatments with greater profit potential. 5000 promising natural substances you never heard of! You might like to use that site to work out
