May’s Featured Product: Wildly Natural Seaweed Butters

By on May 18, 2012

Our featured product for the month of May is our line of Wildly Natural Seaweed Butters. Our intensely moisturizing butters combine unrefined shea butter, cocoa butter, olive oil, bladderwrack seaweed extract, and neem oil to create a rich, soothing salve for the entire body.  All butters are packaged in deodorant-style packaging for easy, hands-free, mess-free application.  Just toss your favorite butter in your briefcase, backpack, or purse and apply anytime, anywhere, without needing to rub it in with your hands.

The bladderwrack seaweed used in our butters contains iodine, which naturally stimulates thyroid production, draws out heavy metals from the body, aids in detoxification, and helps to neutralize the ph level of the body due to its alkalizing properties.  Bladderwrack seaweed is also rich in fucoidan, a powerful natural anti-inflammatory that amplifies the body’s healing response.  The powerful moisturizing effects of unrefined shea butter, cocoa butter, and olive oil are especially helpful for irritated, dry skin sufferers.  Neem oil is also a key ingredient in all of our Wildly Natural Seaweed Butters because of its mighty anti-microbial properties which protect scratched and broken skin from infections.

The Seaweed Bath Co. offers three types of Wildly Natural Seaweed Butters: Hand Butters, Foot Butters, and Body Butters (available in Lemongrass scent and Unscented).  Each butter has a unique consistency and ingredient composition.

Our Wildly Natural Seaweed Hand Butter contains avocado oil, grapefruit oil and lanolin to hydrate the skin without the greasy residue.  Vitamin E is included to improve the skin’s elasticity to help nourish dry, cracked fingertips, cuticles, and its antioxidant properties reduce inflammation.

Our Wildly Natural Seaweed Foot Butter is specially formulated to pamper needy feet.  Aside from the nourishing bladderwrack seaweed, cocoa butter, and unrefined shea butter, the Foot Butter also contains kokum butter, widely known for its ability to soften and heal cracked skin.

Our Wildly Natural Seaweed Body Butters work wonders on dry patches on knees, elbows or anywhere you see irritated or flaking skin.  Our intensely moisturizing formula will instantly hydrate and improve sensitive skin.

While our butters were specifically formulated with severely irritated skin sufferers in mind, everyone can benefit from using them.  We’ve been told by our customers that our Butters have helped to soothe diaper rashes, heal cuts and reduce the appearance of scars.  If you have found a unique way to use for our Butters,  please let us know!  We love to learn how the products have helped to improve your life!

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The Buzz on Bladderwrack

By on May 2, 2012

What do Dr. Mehmet Oz and Kim Kardashian have in common?  They both appreciate the benefits of Bladderwrack seaweed! In Touch magazine reports that Kim uses The Seaweed Bath Co. products to manage her psoriasis and Dr. Oz shared with his audience the benefits of nutrient-rich Bladderwrack seaweed in treating cellulite, obesity, dry skin, and arthritis.  Brown bladderwrack seaweed is one of the top three ingredients in all of the products in The Seaweed Bath Co. line.  We like it so much we even named the company after it! Of the three types of seaweed – brown, green, and red – the brown contains the highest concentration of minerals.  These trace minerals detoxify, condition and soothe dry, irritated skin and help to diminish the symptoms of severely irritated skin without the chemicals and steroids often found in traditional remedies.  Bladderwrack seaweed brings an alkalitic balance to the skin to reduce redness.  It is also naturally high in iodine and fucoidan.  Iodine is helpful in stimulating the thyroid and regulating bodily functions.  Fucoidan also has many beneficial properties including its anti-inflammatory effects and dermal healing.  At The Seaweed Bath Co., we sustainably hand-harvest the Bladderwrack seaweed and use it in its whole form, powderized form and as an extract in all of our Wildly Natural Seaweed products.

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Meet the Team: Sophie Grossman

By on February 22, 2012

We are pleased to announce that Sophie Allegra Grossman has joined the Seaweed Bath Co.’s executive team!

After serving an intensive nine month internship, Sophie joined us on January 17, 2012.

This cute blue eyed blonde weighed in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, but has quickly filled out to over 10 pounds in her first month with the team.

Sophie works closely with her mother, Allison, our Marketing Director, but also spends a lot of time with Adam, advising him on family matters.

Sophie hasn’t chosen her favorite products yet, but it appears that she’s a big bath fan, and the body butters seem perfect for her in the coming months.

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NBC’s TODAY Show and The Seaweed Bath Co.

By on January 7, 2012

What a great way to start off the new year. The ladies of the popular fourth hour of NBC’s TODAY Show highlighted our Wildly Natural Seaweed Powder Baths during a segment Thursday where they got a little carried away in their presentation — much to the delight of themselves, the off-camera crew, and those of us here at The Seaweed Bath Co headquarters in Austin, Tx.

Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotd host that celebrated fourth hour of the television in NBC’s morning lineup, and Thursday’s edition featured a segment about caring for dry flaking skin during the winter months. Touted as “Today’s Beauty Winter Skin Solutions,” the two hosts were joined by style and beauty expert Jenn Falik, the go-to source for the latest tips, trends and beauty products.

Jenn joined the TODAY Show hosts at a long table displaying a half dozen or so products designed to ward off winter beauty woes, and when they arrived at The Seaweed Bath Co., display, the beauty expert began describing our Wildly Natural Seaweed Powder Bath products.

She said that sometimes the only thing we want after a cold winter day is a hot bath; suggesting long soaks generally dry out the skin. But the moment Jenn mentioned a main ingredient in our product — bladderwrack seaweed — co-host Kathie Lee Gifford interrupted her presentation by saying, “Bladder rack?” When Jenn attempted to describe the seaweed, Kathie Lee looked into the camera with a grin and said, “I thought those were two separate things.”

The trio began giggling, then laughing and it was Jenn who recovered first, adding, Continue Reading →

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Japanese University Study Confirms Health Benefits of Brown Seaweed

By on December 29, 2011

We here at The Seaweed Bath Co. have always espoused the health benefits of fucoidan extract (FE) found in brown seaweed, and now a leading university in Japan has determined that FE has the potential for therapeutic beneficial change and safety of disease treatments.

A recent study conducted by the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, started off as an investigation of the anti-tumor properties of FE in human cancer cells. But the results proved optimistic that fucoidan can have a positive effect on the human body.

For years, I’ve been advocating the advantages of soaking in brown seaweed to rejuvenate the skin and metabolic system of those suffering skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema. Through Thalassotherapy and “seaweed soaks,” our customers have reported a reduction in skin conditions such as inflammation and lesions as well as the growth of healthy skin cells.

What we offer are products derived from bladderwrack seaweed, which contains fucoidan and iodine — two elements that are rich in essential amino acids, vitamins and nutrients that can stimulate the thyroid and both soften and sooth the skin. The Japanese fucoidan  study shows that, as a natural compound with various actions, fucoidan extract is Continue Reading →

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Happy Holidays from The Seaweed Bath Co.

By on December 25, 2011

We’re posting today’s blog entry to wish all our customers, retail merchants and beauty experts a fulfilling and fun-filled 2012. If next year is anything like this past 12 months, we here at The Seaweed Bath Co. will be grateful.

First off is a warm thank you for the continued support of our customers who keep returning month after month to sample and purchase the latest in our ever-expanding line of seaweed-rich products for fighting dry, scaling skin the natural way. Every item we produce has you in mind.

And our successes this year would be far less impressive were it not for our brick and mortar retailers as well as the online merchants who choose to sell our products. We have become such close friends with so many of our merchants, and that also is a blessing. For those seeking one of our retail outlets, be sure to visit our online Seaweed Bath Co. Store Locator to find a location near you.

Finally, a big thank you to the bloggers who published reviews of our products over the year, including Lauren at LOLO Magazine, Marta from Truth in Aging, and the folks at Continue Reading →

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Product Profile: Wildly Natural Seaweed Argan Conditioners

By on December 19, 2011

Wildly Natural Seaweed Argan Conditioners

Just as our product line grows, so to do the types of blog posts we publish. What we intend to do in this particular post — and in future “product profile” posts here on the blog — is introduce you to the products we produce here at The Seaweed Bath Co.

First up is our Wildly Natural Seaweed Argan Conditioners, made of oils from the Argan tree, which grows only in Morocco. Because the Argan tree is endemic to that northern African nation, the oil produced from its kernels is among the rarest in the world.

In fact, a women’s cooperative that shares the profits among female members of the Berber tribe, produces all argan oil sold today. Years ago, these women used to grind and press the kernels by hand, but today the kernels are harvested and processed by machine, making the process more efficient and profitable for the women involved.

Argan oil is rich in vitamin E, phenols and phenolic acid, carotenes and squalene. As a result, it is sought throughout the world for its cosmetic properties as well as for nutrition and medicinal purposes.

Our Wildly Natural Seaweed Argan Conditioners came about as the result of nearly a half-year of research and development — including a number of Continue Reading →

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