Clean & Green Trading Co. is proud to present a line of manuka oil based products exclusive to Indigenous Botanicals.
We are a company that is striving to bring about conscious products directly from indigenous peoples of the world, giving them a voice in the marketplace.
In doing this, we're able to bring new products to the consumer that are natural, scientifically researched, safe and environmentally sustainable.
This also provides a way for indigenous people to support themselves, as well as share the ancient knowledge they have gained about their native botanicals.
Tairawhiti (East Cape) Manuka Oil has been a decade in the making. It is only now when we look back at where weve been we realize how naive we were when we sat around the old tressle table in the shed at Te Araroa and decided to form a company to take our newly discovered, highly active Manuka Oil to the World.
The company was formed in 1991 after two years of preliminary investigations by two separate groups. One a local Maori charitable trust, led by Syd Clarke, Pierre Henare and Hal Hovell driven by desire. Their goal to generate much needed employment for Maori indiginous people. The other Mark Kerr, an industrial engineer, motivated by the challenge, and seeking to be involved with an enterprise of real value.
Fortunately there were others who had a better idea of what we were up against, such as Dr Noel Porter of the then DSIR now, Crop and Food Research who encouraged the two groups to combine their resources and expertise and guided the Company once formed in the right direction and Dr Alan Cooke of the Cawthron Institute who assured us that this was a discovery and a product of importance.
Although the Manuka tree had attracted scientific interest in the past, little had been found of real importance - until some manuka oil samples tested by Dr. Cooke of the Cawthron Institute - showed some remarkable results.
The Cawthron Institute research, conducted on behalf of the Company, showed that the oil produced from the Manuka trees, in the Te Araroa region of the East Cape, showed antimicrobial activity far greater than had been seen with other Manuka oil samples and greater than many other natural oils.
The testing showed Manuka Oil to be active against a wide range of micro-organisms that cause irritation and infection of the skin and body. Some of them, serious- such as MRSA (more commonly known as the H-bug) and other more common ones such as those that cause Athletes Foot.
Research found that not all Manuka Oils from New Zealand are biologically active. Only Manuka oil from the East Cape region of New Zealand contains high levels of "triketones", the naturally occurring chemical compound that provide the anti-bacterial and anti-fungicidal properties. All Manuka Oil is batch tested by Crop & Food Research to verify all Manawa Manuka oil products contain high levels of triketones to ensure their healing ability.
BoundlessEarth proudly features Indiginous Botanicals line of manawa™ Manunka products.
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