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Several years ago, I noticed that my normally parched and troubled skin looked and felt incredible whenever I added a few drops of my favorite cold-pressed rosehip oil from The Ordinary to my moisturizer each night.
What I discovered was that, not only did it allow my very thick face cream to spread more easily across my skin, but it also made me use less of it, so I was saving money on a product that I would otherwise typically burn through at an alarming rate.
I could feel the rosehip oil thoroughly soaking into my skin – it didn’t just sit on top – and I knew my epidermis was reaping the most possible benefits.
I’m not alone in my enthusiasm for this lesser-known ingredient: In a Reddit thread that my editor helped uncover, one user with the most luminously hydrated complexion – who claimed to be 62 years old – revealed that one of her beauty secrets was a few drops of rosehip oil at night. Like me, she claimed that this simple ingredient has helped her skin stay smooth and hydrated.
