Love at Tindved and Nesle!! 🧡

Yes, it's thanks to being the pioneer award we participated in, and were honored at: European Natural Beauty Awards 🏆 There, 31 influencers and 56 celebrities from all over Europe got to test some Vossabia products, and many other great 99-100% natural skin products from many countries. In total, 188 products were tested, for a total of 4 months.

The Italian influencer Elena Rossi really melted my heart the other day! She is a big Green Beauty Expert 🌱 and runs the Instagram profile @vanityspaceblog with her 61,000 followers, and she has a great blog with the same name, where she informs and spreads the good news about green natural cosmetics ✍️💚 I was so happy when a few days ago she had an Instagram post where she praised Sea Buckthorn and Nettle as one of her 5 favorite products! 🤩 I was so surprised and so happy! I think it is so touching that there is a conscious, knowledgeable woman in Italy who is also a Green Beauty Expert, who happily smears herself with our delicious Sea Buckthorn and Nettle 🥰

Sea buckthorn and nettle are such a fantastic bright orange powerhouse! 🧡✨ The sea buckthorn content is what makes it so bright orange, which in turn contributes to the beautiful glow that many customers praise and talk about 😉 Because it's far from just Elena in Italy who loves Sea buckthorn and Nettle!

  

 

Sea buckthorn is now in season, the berries are ready to be harvested! 👩‍🌾 So I'm going to visit my good friend and super grower, Marco in Lærdal. He knows a lot about growing this shrub. He also knows a lot about its health benefits, but he got a surprise when a group of Ukrainians came by and brought his berries to test in the laboratory 🧑‍🔬 They grew, tested and processed sea buckthorn regularly, and had proper analysis capabilities. After a couple of weeks, they called and asked if they could buy all his berries, because they had never seen the likes of powerful sea buckthorn berries 😱

 

So, sea buckthorn is fantastic anyway, and even scientists use big words about this plant, just check the headline of a study from a few years ago 👉 ABUNDANCE OF ACTIVE INGREDIENTS IN SEA BUCKTHORN OIL ! But, Marco's berries are clearly in a class of their own 😍 And they are in our jars! Isn't that fantastic?

 

What is Thornwood? 🧐

 

Sea buckthorn is a fantastically nutritious berry that can be eaten, juiced or pickled, but it is also incredibly good for the skin 🌿💫 In Norway, this super berry grows wild mostly only along the Trondheimsfjord.

However, sea buckthorn is grown commercially in large quantities in China, Russia and Poland, especially due to the berries' tremendous health properties. In China, they have grown sea buckthorn for several hundred years, and it is a very common product in pharmacies and health food stores 🇨🇳🏥 and there are over 200 medical and cosmetic products containing sea buckthorn there.

And I'm lucky enough to know a farmer just an hour away from us, who has several goals with this wonder bush 🤩

 

Sea buckthorn grows on a large bush, almost like a small tree, with long (and very prickly 😱) thorns. The berries are bright orange, shiny, juicy and quite sour 🟠🧡

Wearing welding gloves (!) to avoid getting pricked by the thorns, I got to pluck branches full of bright orange, densely growing berries. At home, I put the branches in the freezer, as the only way to get the berries off is to knock them off the branches while they are frozen. A special berry-picking experience, simply put 🤣

I make tinctures from these super berries, and I have also purchased organic sea buckthorn fruit oil from Tindved og Nesle . And this small, powerful berry contains a powerful mix of nutrients with vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids, and many of these are also powerful antioxidants. See here, among other things:

☀️ Vitamins A and E and HUGE amounts of vitamin C. We're talking 12 times more than in oranges)
☀️ Good minerals and nutrients (zinc, selenium, copper among others)
☀️ Omega 3,6,9
☀️ And the rare Omega 7 (as far as I've read, sea buckthorn is one of very few plant sources on the planet that contains Omega 7)

 

We're talking about a hefty punch of a nutritional package 💥
Vitamin C is often called the Beauty Vitamin, and when used in skincare, it can help reduce redness and inflammation and increase collagen levels, which results in firmer and smoother skin.
The combination of vitamins, antioxidants and essential fatty acids excels in skin repair and regeneration.

🇨🇳 In China, they often sell creams with sea buckthorn as "Anti-age", as its regenerating properties are known to give smoother, more supple and firmer skin ✨ It is simply famous for reducing signs of aging in the skin 😍 There is also rosehip seed oil, nettle, pomegranate, hemp oil and other super ingredients in Sea buckthorn and nettle . In fact, absolutely all the ingredients were chosen to be included in the recipe because they have regenerating properties, i.e. full of vitamins C, A, E, essential fatty acids (3,6,7 and 9) and rich in antioxidants, that's it! In addition, it helps repair acne, acne, eczema, for example, and it's even worth trying if you want to reduce the color of pigment spots 🙌

Sea buckthorn is known for its high-level repair and regeneration properties, and is therefore one of my absolute new favorite ingredients in Vossabia's botanical skincare range 🐝🧡
Especially the perfect amount of the various essential fatty acids Omega 3, 6, 7 and 9 will give you glowing fresh skin – that radiates health 🤩 

Warm regards,
Queen bee 🐝 in Vossabia