"A rose by any other name wouldn't be as sweet."
How about a rose by any other use? Besides being beautiful and smelling sweet, roses actually have quite a few other uses!
1. Skin care. This blog has the recipe for rose water, which is the base for toner and a delicious sounding mud mask!
2. Cooking. You can add some types of rose petals to foods to increase flavor or as a garnish for desserts. The damascena and apothecary roses are most used for culinary endeavors. You can also make jam (or buy it...) our of rose hips.
3. Secret meetings. Yes, secret meetings! In ancient Greece, they decorated the ceiling of a room to indicate a secret meeting was taking place. Not sure how secret that was since everyone knew, but ok!
4. Medicine. Roses actually contain many essential vitamins! They have Vitamin C, pectic, malic and citric acids. Rose hip or rose petal tea removes toxins from the body, can cure colds, is a great remedy for stomach problems, and even irregular periods or infertility, according to this website.
There you have it. The many uses of the wonderful rose. Anybody have any other interesting uses or remedies? Share them in the comments!
