Raw Materials

This cream is formulated as a ‘skin friendly’ alternative to the common Sorbolene and ‘aqueous’creams. These products are based on petrochemicals – mineral oil, paraffin and petroleum jelly – along with strong synthetic emulsifiers and preservatives. They are a poor base for preparations, being neither skin-compatible nor offering any regenerative benefits for the skin.  ...

The companion to our Shampoo Base, Essential Conditioner Base is a light, nourishing conditioner for all hair types, containing only natural coconut and palm oil conditioning agents. For dealing with hair and scalp complaints, Essential Conditioner Base is a more effective base to use than shampoo, as you can leave it on for just a few minutes or even overnight. This allows beneficial ingredients...

“Turkey Red Oil” (sulfated castor oil – the first synthetic detergent) is one older product that has been used for creating essential oil emulsions. Essential Solubiliser is a modern improvement on Turkey Red Oil, colourless, odourless and is a more effective emulsifier. Essential Solubiliser is based on mild emulsifiers derived from pure Almond and Coconut oils. These emulsifiers are...

Also known as Karite Butter, Shea Butter has been traditionally used for centuries by Africans for its cosmetic and healing properties. Shea is rich in a number of regenerative compounds, including essential fatty acids, triterpenoids, stigmasterol, allantoin (as in Comfrey) and antioxidants, including Vitamin E, beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) and B-amyrine. Creams and lotions made with Shea...

Once the aloe gel has been removed from the leaves of the plant, it soon becomes a liquid. Commercial aloe “gels” are generally based on simply adding liquid aloe extract to the common methacrylate plastic gel and some synthetic green dye! We have created a more natural alternative for you, using our Amigel as the gelling agent – and made it twice the strength of usual aloe products as...

Amigel is our unique gelling agent derived from the yeast Sclerotium rolfsii grown on a glucose sugar culture. Known as a polysaccharide gel (meaning “many sugars”), Amigel has the highest capacity to absorb water than any other vegetable gelling agent and will accept a large amount of additional ingredients. We offer our prepared Amigel at a 2% concentration in distilled water, with the...

Amiox is our unique Rosemary extract that is a potent natural antioxidant. Antioxidants are helpful because these molecules ‘mop up’ oxygen and free radicals much more readily than the fatty acids in the oil. By adding only two drops (or 0.05%) of Amiox to every 100mL of vegetable oil, the ‘shelf life’ of the oil can be extended for perhaps another 30% to 40% longer. Amiox is far superior...

Pure, vegetable soap made only from pure vegetable oils of coconut and olive. This soap is an excellent base for the addition of essential oils for baths, natural shampoo, gentle cleansers and more. Castile soap is a traditional soap made only from the pure vegetable oils of coconut and olive. Using caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) instead of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), as used in making...

This is a naturally derived preservative from grapefruit seeds and pulp that has been in use since the 1970’s. Citricidal works as a benign, hypoallergenic and wide-spectrum preservative in many formulations. This is an unadulterated grapefruit seed extract, it does not contain added synthetic parabens or triclosan, that have been found in some grapefruit and citrus seed extracts. How to use:...

Essential Therapeutics Essential Oil Emulsifier Disper is the natural emulsifier for essential oils. It consists of special soy lecithin fractions (food grade and non-GMO) added to pure neutral cane spirit (pure ethanol from cane sugar, charcoal filtered). In France, the major use for Disper has been to create essential oil preparations for ingestion. Disper is useful to create liquid...