Rose water offers a range of potential benefits, from tension relief to smoothing skin. You can apply it topically to your skin, spray it around you, or ingest it.
Rose water is created by distilling rose petals with steam. Rose water is fragrant, and it’s sometimes used as a mild natural fragrance as an alternative to chemical-filled perfumes.
While there haven’t been many studies on the extent of its benefits, it contains compounds that may give it health-supporting effects, such as:
- antioxidant
- antiinflammatory
- anticancer
- antimicrobial