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Minimalist Rosehip Oil With Vitamin C Face Serum

Name: Rosehip Oil With Vitamin C Face Serum
Brand: Minimalist

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A oil with 2 ingredients, including vitamin C.

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Overview

What it is

Oil with 2 ingredients that contains Vitamin C

Cool Features

It is vegan, cruelty-free, and reef safe

Suited For

It has ingredients that are good for dry skin and dark spots

Free From

It doesn't contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, fragrances, parabens, silicones or sulfates

Fun facts

Minimalist is from India. This product is used in 7 routines created by our community.

We independently verify ingredients and our claims are backed by peer-reviewed research. Does this product need an update? Let us know.

What's inside

Ingredients List

Rosa Canina Seed Oil

Emollient

Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate

Emollient

Rosa Canina Seed Oil, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate

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Key Ingredients

Benefits

Ingredients Explained

Rosa Canina Seed Oil

Emollient

Rosa Canina Seed Oil is a plant oil that is one of the two main oils sold as "rosehip oil".

It's a lightweight emollient that's especially high in fatty acids like linoleic acid (~54%), linoleic acid (~19%), plus some oleic. The exact percentages vary quite a bit by species, region, and growing conditions.

These fatty acids make it a solid choice for supporting the skin barrier and softening skin.

On the evidence front, a 2024 review on postsurgical scarring found this ingredient to be safe with benefits for scar redness, texture, and pigmentation. It's worth noting the human data is still limited and more trials are needed so it's reasonable to be optimistic but not expect miracles.

This ingredient has been found safe in current practices of use and concentration, with the only caveat that it could contain fragrance allergens (linalool and eugenol).

Fungal acne: The fatty acids of this oil fall into the C11-24 range that Malassezia yeast can metabolize, so this ingredient may not be fungal acne safe.

Learn more about Rosa Canina Seed Oil

Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate

Antioxidant, Emollient, Skin Conditioning

Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate is a version of ascorbic acid, or Vitamin C.

This ingredient has many benefits including reducing wrinkles, skin soothing, dark spot fading, and fighting against free radicals.

It helps with dark spot fading by interfering with the process of skin darkening, helping to reduce hyperpigmentation. Like other forms of vitamin C, this ingredient encourages the skin to create more collagen.

As an antioxidant, it helps fight free-radicals. Free-radicals are molecules that may damage your skin cells.

One study found Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate to degrade in sunlight, but is stabilized when combined with acetyl zingerone.

Learn more about Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate