Easy DIY Rose Water, 15 Benefits & 15 Uses (2020)

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Rose water is a wonderful tool to use in your self care routine, especially when you choose to skip common harmful chemicals found in most skin care products by making it yourself. The best part… making your own rose water allows you to infuse your own love and care into your creation, is very easy to create, and doesn’t have to cost a lot.

3 Different Ways To Make Rose Water

There are three main ways to make rose water: using fresh rose petals, dried rose petals, or rose essential oil. Each of these tree methods of making rose water are just as effective as the other, but may have different costs.

Personally, we most often use fresh rose petals or dried rose petals because we have several large rose bushes on our property, providing us with copious amounts of rose petals throughout the year.

Regardless where you acquire your roses from, please be sure to use roses grown sustainably without use of harmful chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, or insecticides. These chemicals often used in conventional farming practices are harmful to human health.

DIY Rosewater Recipe featuring Dried Roses

What you’ll need:

• 2 cups of HOT (not boiling) distilled water or Moon Water (480ml)
• 1 tsp 100 proof clear alcohol (vodka works well)
• 1/2 cup of dried rose petals (usually from 2 large roses)
• A Strainer

Directions for making your rosewater using dried roses:

1. Before you get started, be sure to rinse your rose petals to ensure they’re free from any dirt or bugs.
2. Add your roses, vodka (optional, but highly recommended), and water to a pot and simmer on low.
3. Once simmering, place a lid on your pot.
4. Routinely check your roses and water and continue simmering until the rose petals lose color.
5. Once your rose petals are colorless, remove the lid from the pot, and remove the pot from the heat, allowing the water inside to cool completely.
6. Once room temperature, strain the water into a glass jar, removing the petals, and store in a cool place away from sunlight.

To maximize the amount of rose essence you’re extracting from the petals, you may also opt to crush your rose petals using a mortar and pestle.

DIY Rosewater Recipe featuring Fresh Roses

What you’ll need:

• 2 cups of distilled water or Moon Water (240ml)
• 1 tsp 100 proof clear alcohol (vodka works well)
• 1 cup of fresh rose petals

Directions for making rosewater with fresh roses

1. Before you get started, be sure to rinse your rose petals to ensure they’re free from any dirt or bugs.
2. Add your roses, vodka (optional, but highly recommended), and water to a pot and simmer on low.
3. Once simmering, place a lid on your pot.
4. Routinely check your roses and water and continue simmering until the rose petals lose color.
5. Once your rose petals are colorless, remove the lid from the pot, and remove the pot from the heat, allowing the water inside to cool completely.
6. Once room temperature, strain the water into a glass jar, removing the petals, and store in a cool place away from sunlight.

To maximize the amount of rose essence you’re extracting from the petals, you may also opt to crush your rose petals using a mortar and pestle.

DIY Rosewater Recipe featuring Rose Essential Oil

Making rose water using rose essential oil tends to typically be the most expensive option, but equally as indulgent.

What you’ll need:

• 1 cup of distilled wateror Moon Water (240ml)
• 1 tsp 100 proof clear alcohol (vodka works well)
• 40 drops of a high quality rose essential oil

** PLEASE NOTE ** Don’t be fooled by clever marketing. Not all essential oils are created equally. Make sure you’re not wasting your money on fake essential oils, or oils diluted in questionable solvents. Don’t miss our guide on how to find quality essential oils to make sure you’re not wasting your money on brands that legally carry out questionable or unethical practices and mislead you through deceitful marketing practices.

Directions for making your rosewater using rose essential oil:

Add 40 drops of your rose essential oil to 1tsp of vodka in a glass jar, swirl to mix. then add your cup of distilled or filtered water. Swirl until thoroughly mixed.

**You may need to shake before using**

Tips for Storing Your Homemade Rose Water

We highly recommend storing your rose water in a glass jar, like a mason jar. This will keep your rose water as fresh as possible, especially when kept in a cool place.

15 Benefits For Using Rose Water

1. Reduces acne
2. Smooths skin blemishes
3. Tones your skin
4. Balances your skin’s pH
5. Hydrates dry skin
6. Reduces puffiness
7. Smooths wrinkles
8. Soothes sun stressed skin
9. Helps reduce excess oil for oily skin
10. Reduces redness of irritated skin
11. Helps to remove dirt, lotion, cosmetics, or other impurities from clogged pores
12. Supports your skin through healing scars
13. Improves your mood, producing calmer emotions
14. May help reduce dandruff and itchiness when added to your hair care products
15. Helps condition your hair

15 Ways To Use Rose Water

1. Use your homemade rose water as a base for your homemade face toner
2. Add rose water instead of water in your homemade face mask
3. Dampen a cotton ball with rose water to apply to your face as a cleanser or toner
4. Add to a spray bottle (like this glass spray bottle), to use as a makeup setting spray
5. Spray on your sunburned skin to help soothe your skin (works especially well when adding your homemade aloe vera gel too)
6. Pour over your scalp to use as a healthy hair conditioner
7. Use in your homemade moon water spray
8. Use as an ingredient in your Florida Water spray
9. Use as the water base in your favorite floral room spray recipe
10. Spray on your bed linens to encourage more restful sleep
11. Use as the water base in your kids’ DIY Monster Spray to help them gain more confidence while sleeping in their own room
12. Add rose water to dilute apple cider vinegar to use as a face cleanser
13. Add rose water to a sandalwood hydrosol to tone your face and condition your hair
14. Mix enough rose water and baking soda together to make a watery paste to use on your face as a gentle scrub
15. Mix rose water with apple cider vinegar to use as a hair conditioner

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