Myth Busting
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Rosehip
Rosehip, retinol and the “natural retinol” myth
Many product pages call rosehip oil “nature’s retinol.” The papers supplied here show rosehip as a source of carotenoids, vitamin C, tocopherols and PUFAs and include small in‑vitro and animal studies of wound healing, hair growth and antioxidant activity. They do not, in themselves, establish that rosehip contains meaningful retinoic acid or that it reproduces the clinical effects of pharmaceutical retinoids.
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