The Ordinary 100% Organic Cold-Pressed Rose Hip Seed Oil

I started a new gua sha routine and read that roeship oil was a good non-pore clogging option to create the “slip” needed for gua sha. I saw the different reviews here on Amazon regarding the oil’s scent, and figured I try it anyway. I used it 4 times for my gua sha routine. The oil isn’t too oily, and it absorbed pretty quickly. The smell is a weird sort of fatty/fishiness apparently from the high level of omega fatty nature of it. It’s very off-putting to me, and the smell is strong enough and lingered long enough that I had to wash it off immediately. Worse: I had cute press-on nails on and the oil sort of penetrated the underside of the nails and I couldn’t get rid of the smell from my hands. I had to remove the nails to fully get rid of the smell. Re skin results: hard to determine for me; I felt there was some strange texture and minimal redness to my normally decently smooth for a few days, but I don’t know if it was the oil itself or some other combo of things I did, like using a red led face light right after the gua sha. I stopped using the oil and mask for a couple of days and my skin is back to baseline. I’m going to try the Herbivore brand of rosehip-heavy oil with the hope that the smell is better and also to see if I get consistent better results.