How To Make Rosehip Oil - Easily Step By Step 🌹

Good morning YouTube! Hi guys, welcome back and today we are making Rosehip oil Yes, beautiful skin loving rosehip oil Some may say it's the oil version of Fountain of Youth Yes, and also it's good for your beard isn't it? It's good for your beard, for your hair for anti-aging, for anti-wrinkling Yeah, yeah All these things. Also super expensive to buy. It's super expensive but mega easy to make. Mega easy and cheap to make So come with us and we'll show you how to make it You will need some lovely foraged rosehips that can be found just about in any hedgerow in the United Kingdom at the moment Main ingredient Rosehips Second main ingredient you will need a carrier oil We're using sweet almond oil This is sweet almond oil and it's cheap but really good for you and it's packed full of what's it Vitamin E which is great for your skin and it smells nice too First thing you will need to do is you may notice that rosehips are really hard and they get softer as the weather gets colder I'm squeezing it, I'm squeezing it and it's rock solid and so many recipes say about crushing them up like this and that's a lot of hard work that you don't need to do You need a hammer. They're that hard So you don't want to be squashing these up like that We're going to give you our secret tip so don't tell anyone about it What you do is when you get your rosehips home you freeze them and that fakes a massive frost for the rosehips and then after you've frozen them you run them under warm water and they become soft as butter so they smush up super easy We just run them under the hot water until they're lovely and soft and easy to work with We're all about easy peasy around here So now they're all soft and defrosted Look here's mine This one hasn't been frozen It's squishing You can see all the stuff coming out at the end It's so easy There we go That is what we want That makes life so much easier So now put all your rosehips in your container and squish them up as much as you can The goal is to just try and crack each one of them and squish each one Squish them up so then we can get all them seeds to infuse with the oil easier Once you've got them all crunched up as much as you can then it's time to add the oil Alright so we have one part rosehips to two parts oil So we measured out one mug of rosehips earlier and now I'm going to put two mugs of oil in our pot So this almond oil is full of vitamin E which is lovely for your skin makes it really soft and smooth, moisturising There we go So if you're like me then you're easily confused Two parts oil to one part rosehips It's very simple So if you have one cup of rosehips you add two cups of oil If you have half a cup of rosehips you add one whole cup of oil So this is going to be our beautiful rosehip oil and there's two ways you can cook it depending on what devices you have If you have an oven put it in your pot pop it in the oven BOSH! On the lowest heat for four to eight hours but today we're going to use our slow cooker we're going to put it in the slow cooker on low for four to eight hours and by four to eight hours I mean minimum four maximum eight and then all the goodness from the rosehips is going to infuse with that oil as it slowly bubbles and you get all the seeds goodness in the oil make sure you get all them seeds in there full of all that goodness So now the rosehip oil is cooking away so we thought we'd tell you why you should be using it It's full of omegas 3, 6 and 9 It's super moisturising and it is full of vitamins A and C which are great for your skin It actually protects from the sun rays and it's really good at reducing inflammation so at the moment my tummy is a little bit sore from the sprucing so I've been rubbing it on my tummy and helping with the stretch marks and the scarring It really actually does, science proven reduce wrinkles, reduce scarring and it's in all the stretch marks creams and all that isn't it It's going to turn me back into a beautiful rose So if you want to look as youthful as this guy Let me get this guy's skin If you want skin like this little dude then you need to get some of that bubbling on the stove Guys we can see this is done, look how rich it's gone, such a nice dark colour now and it smells amazing It's been bubbling away in our slow cooker for just over 4 hours and it smells lovely So the final step you've just got to strain it out so get a bit of cough, any cough you've got a bandana, I've got a bandana scoop it out strain it through so we just get all that rich rose hip seed oil and repeat that until you've got all that oil Now look at that in the shop, cost you a fortune and it's cost us the price of almond oil which was £6.99 for 1 litre so, bless you there it is anti-ageing magic and it makes an amazing gift you can make from nature if you're looking for a present to make for someone just muck up some bottles of this and they they will love it voila on the left is the sweet almond oil before and on the right is now the rose hip oil so this did look like this after the cooking process you can see the difference look at that dun dun dun so ladies you probably know you just use a couple of little drops tiny tiny amount on your skin or a little bit in your bath it smells amazing and makes you super soft and lovely it has so many uses in the world we'll include some more information in the description if you're interested in reading more about the vitamins and minerals that it maintains as always if you have any questions just ask in the comments we're happy to answer and let us know if you make some yourself get out there and collect some rose hips they're everywhere at the moment just the right time of year to be doing it it's good, fun, gets you out in the fresh air and it gets you an amazing oil so there's no reason not to get out there and enjoy some rose hip oil like, comment and subscribe guys we love you we'll see you again soon peace