My favourite smell is that of roses, they lift your mood but also calm you and being a woman of fantasy I appreciate the symbolism of the flower in Beauty and the Beast and the Red Queen with her garden of roses in Alice in Wonderland.Roses must be the most frequently used flower in poetry and they have always symbolised love and beauty, Venus to the Romans, Aprodite to the Greeks. Roses can be likened to a women with their gentle unfolding beauty, their stab of a thorn and their temperamental nature - how many men have succumbed to the beauty of a rose only to feel the pain of the thorns.
Roses can be traced back to over 35 million years ago and history bares reference to the rose time over. The eccentric Emperor Nero had a love affair with roses, Nero's fountains were said to spurt rose water from them, a by product from the distilled petals . Other stories say he almost suffocated guests within his palace with petals that fell from the ceiling as they dined , covering their heads..
Queen Cleopatra had her living quarters filled with rose petals so when Marc Antony visited her he would always be reminded of her when he smelt a rose.
The high society women of Rome would be fortunate enough to be able to afford poultices made of roses for beauty treatments, they believed it would banish wrinkles and as it is still widely used today in beauty it shows that discoveries of the natural kind are more powerful than any synthetics in jars.
There are many types of rose essential oil, the most popular and effective ones being Rosa Damascena and Rose Maroc, these oils are used in aromatherapy for beauty and medicine. A face and body massage can be blended for mature skin , included in your beauty regime it can reduce redness, heal broken capilliaries and generally lift mature lined dry skin. . The oil can be used in oil burners to reduce depression, sadness and calm the nerves and in steam inhalers to releive ashtma and allergies, headaches and migraines, it is also said to increase libido and used in many fine perfumes
Rose water is another good way of enjoying roses in your beauty regime but less costly, I use it as a skin toner and also include it in my home made sugar and honey face scrub. This scrub literally scrubs off fine lines caused by dead skin build up letting the new fresh skin come to the surface.
1 tablespoon of triple strength rosewater (available from your health store)
5 teaspoons of organic granulated sugar
1/2 tablespoon of ground oats (porridge)
1/2 teaspoon of honey.
Mix it all up to a paste and don't be put off by the appearance.
Tie your hair up and with your fingertips go all over your face in small circular motions, concentrating on problem areas (where most of the lines are), I take a good 10 minutes rubbing mine in, rinse in warm water and then WOW your face will be the softest you've ever felt.
Keep a bottle of rose essential oil in your home, its uses are wide and invaluable. If you grow your own roses you can easily make rose water at home, when applied to your face it tightens the skin, gets rid of dead skin cells and gives you a beautiful rosy glow.
Red rose.. true love
Yellow... jealousy
Orange.. enthusiasm
Green .. fertility
Pink.. gentility
White.. purity
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