Ingredient Benefits

Botanical Name: Vaccinium myrtillus

One of nature’s most potent antioxidant berries, this is a perfect oil for skin rejuvenation and damaged skin products, because of the powerful antioxidants and high levels of alpha linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid this oil contains.

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

Benefits:
This versatile oil goes on light and absorbs quickly into the skin with no greasy after feel or residual oiliness.
​A perfect oil for skin rejuvenation and damaged skin products. It has a fatty acid content very close to Rosehip Oil. Excellent for use on sensitive and oily skin, skin with large pores as well as all kinds of skin infections, such as acne, pimples and boils. Also useful in promoting repair of damaged skin tissue caused by scalds and burns as well as reducing fine lines. It gives elasticity to the skin and helps slow down the visible signs of skin aging.
​Blueberry Seed Oil is rich in a natural range of vitamin E isomers, of which tocotrienols and gamma tocopherol have been recently shown to be antioxidants especially important for the skin. A balanced supply of different vitamin E isomers to the body is important for human health.

Composition:
A ideal product should contain an array of powerful antioxidants that act synergistically together such as, tocopherols and tocotrienols (Vitamin E’s), as nature intended. Recent studies have revealed the unique functions of different forms of these vitamin E isomers.

Additional Information:
The blueberry is a common shrub that produces fragile though wonderful light green oil.

 

Our 7 Berry Facial Serum contains Blueberry Seed Oil and can be purchased HERE

 

 

Botanical Name: Porphyra umbilicalis

Location: West Coast of Kerry, Ireland.
Seaweed type: Wild-harvested
Drying method: Natural, wind and sun.

Seaweeds are rich in omega 3 and 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which the body cannot make but must be obtained from the diet or applied topically. Compared to land plants, algae have high concentrations of omega oils. Intakes of essential fatty acids are correlated with more youthful appearance.

Benefits:
This seaweed extract is included in Doctor Maher’s Eutopia Body Wash because of its skin-conditioning properties. This extract forms part of our proprietary Phycophar™ BW complex, containing 3 essential seaweed extracts that nourish and condition the skin. Skin conditioning agents create special effects directly on the skin surface that are thought to help maintain a healthy appearance. Dry or damaged skins are expected to benefit most from the deposition of material that adhere to the skin surface.
​Nori possesses anti allergenic, antioxidant, anti-viral and immunostimulant activity.

Composition:
Contains up to 45%, with high levels of the amino acid taurine, floridoside up to 40%, chlorophyll beta-carotene – vitamin A complex, B complex vitamins, C and E and the essential mineral nutrients potassium, magnesium and iron.

Additional Information:
Also known as Laver, Purple Laver, Laverbread or Slook.

Our Eutopia Body Wash contains Nori and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Adansonia digitata

Baobab Oil is known for its moisturizing properties. It is an emollient, with a soothing, softening effect, leaving the skin feel soft and supple. Baobab oil contains Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids that contribute towards maintaining a healthy skin. Improves dry and damaged skin.

Extraction Method: Cold Pressed

Benefits:
Baobab oil claims to have many benefits such as softening and reconstructing the skin, improving elasticity of the skin and encouraging the regeneration of cells.
Baobab Oil contains vitamins D, E and F, pro-vitamin A, as well as essential fatty acids, is full of sterols and antioxidants. All these components are helpful and soothing for dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis prone skin and scaly skin disorders.
Highly prized in Africa for centuries due to its incredible moisturizing properties, the oil of the baobab tree is an ideal ingredient for use in skin and hair care products. Quickly absorbed, without clogging pores, with no oily residue or greasy feel, powerful emolliency, is highly moisturizing and soothing, therefore, leaving the skin feeling soft and supple qualities for which this oil is known for.
It helps maintain and repair soft, smooth and supple skin by supporting elasticity, Baobab Oil encourages the regeneration of skin cells and combined with its rehydrating effect, helps to reduce fine lines, improves skin tone and combat wrinkles. Its high levels of nutrients, helps to protect skin from harsh weather and damage, such as sunburn, scarring and dryness. Baobab Oil is packed full of omegas, which contribute to maintaining healthy skin and is said to have anti-inflammatory properties.
Its rich essential fatty acid content makes it useful to help alleviate chronic dry skin conditions and helps promote smooth skin in the young and old.

Composition:
With its high Omega 3 and 6 essential fatty acid content, up to 3 and 35%, respectively, and also contains omega 9, makes it ideal for skin care products. Baobab oil is a golden-yellow oil that is gently scented and contains nearly equal amounts of saturated, mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acids, with the essential linoleic acid being of special interest, because they must form part of our diet or be applied directly to the skin as we are unable manufacture this fat ourselves.

Additional Information:
The Baobab tree is often referred to as the ‘upside-down tree’ as the branching top of the tree looks like roots as if the whole tree has been turned upside down. Every part of the tree is used by local people, from the fruits to the bark. The trees can be between 1000 – 1500 years old.
The baobab tree is native to Africa, and is generally found in places with low altitude and in the hotter, drier areas, where native women use Baobab Oil protect and nourish their skin in the harsh, dry climate. Highly prized in Africa for centuries due to its moisturizing properties, the oil of the baobab tree is an ideal ingredient for use in skin and hair care products. Baobab is gently scented and has a rich golden-yellow hue.

Our Eutopia Body Wash and Liberty Corrective Serum contains Baobab Oil and can be purchased HERE

Botanical Name: Brassica oleracea

Broccoli seed oil is a valuable softening agent and emollient, that speeds up hydration of the skin, is non-greasy and is a safe natural alternative to silicone, giving a sheen to dull lifeless skin, that helps speed up skin hydration.

Extraction Method: Virgin and Cold Pressed

Benefits:
Broccoli Seed Oil is a valuable softening agent and emollient that is used in many skin and hair care products. The fatty acid content and structure of this oil makes it a very good oxidative stabilizer.
​In skin care products, it reduces the overall ‘greasiness’ of the product and helps to speed up the hydration of the skin. It also imparts sheen to dull and lifeless skin.
Broccoli Seed Oil has been shown to perform as well as silicone, this oil is now becoming increasingly popular as a natural option to silicone in many products.

Composition:
The oil is about 50% erucic acid, which is an omega 9 fatty acid.

Additional Information:
More Information to Follow.

Our Liberty Corrective Serum contains Broccoli Seed Oil and can be purchased HERE.

Botanical Name: Corallina officinalis

Location: West Coast of Kerry, Ireland.
Seaweed type: Wild-harvested
Drying method: Natural, wind and sun.

This seaweed is a rigid mineralised seaweed that can be ground in to a fine powder and incorporated in to soap products, which satisfies an important exfoliating function, yet is incredibly soft and gentle to the skin, that aids in the removal of dead skin cells, is soothing and leaves tired, dull skin refreshed.

Benefits:
This seaweed is a calcified seaweed making it ideal for use as a gentle exfoliating powder when ground up and used in Doctor Maher’s Luxury soap, where it gently and safely helps to remove dead and loose cells from the skin surface.
​This seaweed also possesses skin-conditioning activity, helping to maintain the skin in good condition. Calcium is a common element in skin and regulates the rate of cell division in the epidermis, determining how fast new cells replace old cells. Skin with low calcium stores may appear fragile, thin and dry. This appearance is because there is not enough calcium present to spur on the replacement of old with new vigorous cells.

Composition:
C. officinalis is akin to most seaweed species in the ability to chemically protect itself against the damaging effects of the sun, palytine and shinorine are two microsporine-like chemicals that are found in this species which are thought to protect this seaweed against the damaging effects of UV radiation.
​Corallina is a rich source of calcium, because the rigid skeleton of this unusual seaweed is calcified for structural strength.

Additional Information:
Also known as Coral Weed.

Our Vitalize Cleansing Bar contains Coralline Seaweed and can be purchased HERE