Seabuckthorn Powder and Oil

These Seabuckthorn products below are (from left) Natura-Nutra's Sea Buckthorn Extract powder and the Sea Buckthorn oil. Both are truly magnificent products, so I want to discuss my experience (as well as everything else there is to know about them) with both, starting with the Sea Buckthorn extract powder.

Since I desperately needed extra Vitamin C in my diet (as well as other things), and after learning the benefits of Sea Buckthorn, I had to try it.

The Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder is the one in  the white bottle that you see pictured on the left above. Both the extract powder and the oil come from Natura-Nutra, an incredible company that manufactures Sea Buckthorn skincare products along with the dietary supplements.

Natura-Nutra's products are all-natural, and contain high potency seabuckthorn.

That's just a little bit about the company I've come to really love for their Sea Buckthorn products! Now, for those of you who are not aware of Seabuckthorn and the benefits, I will explain...

Seabuckthorn is a  and as you can see on the image on the Natura-Nutra products, Seabuckthorn is a bright orange berry. Seabuckthorn berries have a very tart/sour taste them, which also is noticeable when consumed in the powder extract form, but not intolerable to the palate.

Seabuckthorn or "Hippophae L." is one of only 7 species of berries found in Europe and Asia. The berries are nutritious and edible.

The benefits of Seabuckthorn are due to the content of phytochemicals. Phytochemicals are anti-inflammatory, may prevent cancer, great for the digestive system, etc. I will go into more benefit-detail momentarily.

Also, the health benefits come from the high Vitamin C content since the fruit has an average content of about 15 times greater than what is found in oranges. Not only that, but it's also high in caratenoids, amino acids, polyphenols, flavanoids and Vitamin E.

Seabuckthorn has been used throughout history in traditional medicine to treat many sorts of disease. It has been used as an herbal remedy in China and Asia for centuries to improve coughs, blood circulation, digestion and more. It's also used to alleviate pain.

   The leaves and bark of the plant have been used to treat diarrhea and     dermatological disorders. Seabuckthorn has hemostatic and anti-inflammatory properties, which is why it's also been used in medications for pulmonary, cardiac, blood, gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders in Indian, Chinese and Tibetan medicines. 

Natura-Nutra has a great website with information about Seabuckthorn products available. You can visit by clicking here. And you can find the Seabuckthorn products at Herbs Best Nutrition.

This is the Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder. It comes in a 150 gram bottle. Natura-Nutra's Seabuckthorn Extract powder is approved by Health Canada as a Natural Health Product.

"Natura-Nutra Sea Buckthorn Extract is a high potency powder extracted from manually-harvested Sea Buckthorn berries. Every gram of the extract is equivalent to four grams of berries. This extract is ideal for making drinks or fruit shake. Add 1-3 tea spoonful of the extract into water, stir well and you just made yourself a tasty Sea Buckthorn drink. The powder extract can also be added together with your favorite fruits, to make your fruit mix more delicious and nutritious. Adults take 1-3 tea spoons per day."

I get picture-happy, and since Blogger distorts my photos, they do look funny, so forgive me for that. Anyways, you can see the rich orange-y color of the Sea Buckthorn Powder Extract. It's a very fine powder with a tangy/tart taste. It isn't very sweet, but goes down easily enough when mixed in a glass of water. On the other hand, it also is easy to drink when mixed with a little flavoring added to your water. It can also be mixed into food. I think it adds a nice tart flavor to a rich smoothie.

Most of the time, I just add a spoon to my water bottle and drink it throughout the day. My bottle holds 3.5 cups of water, so adding the one serving to that amount of water is super easy to drink since I don't taste much of it. I just close the lid and shake it very well. You need to stir or shake well (I think shaking works best) because it will settle at the bottom.

If you just don't like having to drink it, Natura Nutra also has it available on Herbs Best Nutrition in a capsule-form. You can find those here.

What are the benefits of Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder?

Sea Buckthorn Powder has high-potency antioxidants, which are amazing because they fight against free radicals, help prevent disease and cancer, etc. Here are some of the benefits of the Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder:

• Contains over 190 well balanced and bioactive phytonutrients, including 42 lipids, 20 mineral elements, flavanoids, minerals, Vitamin A, B, C, and natural E complex, K and more.
• The vitamin C content in Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder is more than any fruit we consume.
• The antioxidant dismutase is 4 times stronger than Ginseng
• Mostly used for celluar support, tissue repair, cardiovascular protection and antioxidation.
• Traditionally used in Russia, Mongolia, and Tibet for its great effect in cough relief, anti-ulcer, promoting immunity and energy. 

And even more! Sea Buckthorn contains organic acids, amino acids folic acid, tocopherols, phenols, terpenes and tannins! Im-press-ive!

Let me talk a little bit more about the awesome nutrients and stuff available in Sea Buckthorn.

- Sea Buckthorn contains about 40% of Omega-7. Omega-7 is a nutrient, a rare one and it has the ability to build up skin and membrane cells.

-The antioxidant dismutase is 4 x's stronger than Ginseng.

-Sea Buckthorn is the only plant source that contains Omega 3, 6, 7 and 9 fatty acids.

-Sea Buckthorn helps your body fight against disease and boosts  energy levels (due to the high nutrient and vitamin content.)

-Sea Buckthorn is good for gastrointestinal health since it's an anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer.

-It also has cardiovascular health benefits since it's a rich source of fatty acids that help reduce cholesterol, blood pressure and inhibit blood platelet aggregation.

-Let's just call Sea Buckthorn a panacea at this point because it seems to help everything, including weight loss. Due to its Omega-7 content, it signals the body to stop storing fat.

And this one is the Seabuckthorn Oil, also an amazing product. I like the Seabuckthorn Oil becase it's so easy to take. Since it comes in a glass bottle (50 mL) that has a dropper style lid. This means all I have to do is screw the lid off, suck the oil up into the dropper and stick it in my mouth! Easy and quick. The taste isn't bad at all. It goes down easily and has an oily taste, as would be expected. It does have a berry-like flavor, but nothing that compares to any fruit I've eaten before. I guess it could best be described as a flavor similar to orange, but really, that isn't it either. 

"Natura-Nutra Sea Buckthorn Berry oil is processed using most advanced supercritical CO₂ extraction technology free from industrial solvents. Supercritical CO₂ extraction preserves the nutrients in the natural form and leaves no trace of solvent in the final product. The supercritical CO₂ extracted oil is then bottled in nitrogen chamber, which removes the oxygen from the air. In this package, the freshness of the sea buckthorn oil can be preserved without compromise from oxidation."

Instructions:

"This oil can be consumed after 50:50 dilution with olive oil or added to any health food combination. Some prefer taking them orally directly. Alternatively this oil can also be used topically as a natural healing aid, or to help the treatment for problem skins. Adults take 2-3ml a day."

As you can see, the Sea Buckthorn Oil is a rich yellow/orange color. This is because of the color of Seabuck berries. They are orange. In fact, if I ever came across a seabuckthorn product that was not orange or yellow tinted, I'd be suspicious because I would get the impression it didn't actually contain seabuckthorn. You have to be careful where you buy because believe it or not, companies will do that. As for Natura-Nutra, everything is wonderful.

Seabuckthorn Oil contains the richest source of Omega-7. Omega 7's are the "building blocks" for the skin and membrane cells. Seabuckthorn is also one of the most nutrient dense fruit in the world and contains more than 190 phytonutrients and active ingredients.

Seabuckthorn Oil also contains Omega 3, 6, 7, and 9! It contains herbal flavanones, antioxidants, minerals, Vitamins A, B1, B2, C, D, E and K! 

Since it contains Omega 7, it helps skin and membrane cells. To see Seabuckthorn's nutritional profile and comparisons between Seabuckthorn and other things such as oranges, go here.  Pretty amazing!

 I'll give you one that's listed there: an orange contains 60 mg/100 grams of Vitamin C. A kiwi, 98-180 mg/100 grams  of Vitamin C and Seabuckthorn: 690 mg/100 grams of Vitamin C! There really is a lot of that great stuff in there. 

And since we're discussing Vitamin C, did you know that (from what I've read) when you take in a certain amount of vitamin C (more than just that daily dose of 1,000 mg) no virus can survive in the body? Actually, what I read said that at 10,000 mg of Vitamin C, no virus can survive in the body, to be exact. I believe the source was a CD I listened to, but can't think of the author for the life of me. Sorry. Look into it, though and do look into the comparison I linked to a couple paragraphs ago. It's shocking how Seabuckthorn tops other fruits.

Some of the benefits of using Seabuckthorn oil include cellular support, skin health, cardiovascular and gastro-intestinal protection. While we're on that subject, I want to add that I have noticed a more soothed digestive system in the time (more than 2 months) that I've been taking Natura Nutra's Seabuckthorn Oil and Extract Powder. It seems the Extract Powder has lasted longer, but I really love the both of them.

Seabuckthorn also has anti-inflammatory properties, which could also explain the reduction in problems I've had with my stomach/digestive system as well as tooth issues! I used the Seabuckthorn oil to do a small oil-pull (didn't want to do a lot since I didn't want to use all my Seabuckthorn oil on that) and found that it soothed my gums and made my root canal feel far less sensitive! I've used olive oil, sunflower oil and coconut oil to oil pull and I do think Seabuckthorn seems to perform just as if not better than those. I hated the taste of the coconut, but the Seabuckthorn oil is not extremely strong tasting, so it's very tolerable.

Seabuckthorn has many great healing effects, basically, these can be experienced throughout the entire body from what I've read. Anywhere there's a problem, it seems Seabuckthorn is quite efficient in relieving it. From teeth issues to skin issues, to organ prolapse, it really seems to have benefits in every single area I've looked into. It helps with tissue repair and when used externally, it blocks UV and improves skin. Natura-Nutra's liquid oil can be used topically and internal. Many people have great benefits when using it on the skin for problem spots (of nearly any kind!)

P.S. We've used this Sea Buckthorn oil on everything, including bug bites & I will say, there's nothing I've seen quite like Sea Buckthorn Oil for things like bug bites. We've used it for that many times. The first was when my neice came back from camping and was so covered, all over, in bites. I just grabbed the Sea Buckthorn Oil and covered her arms & legs with it & soon after, I asked how the bites were. She said she hadn't itched since we put it on her & when I looked at where all the red, bumpy bites were, they were gone! It actually stopped the itching for good & the bites just went away. There was no redness or anything.

Then, the other day, my sister, me and my partner had all been bitten by mosquitos, I guess. We put the Sea Buckthorn oil on the bites & her's went away instantly, just like my neice's did. Mine never itched again, but my partner's was pretty bad & he did have itching for a few minutes after applying, so he had to apply two layers of it.

So, next time you have itchy bug bites, remember Sea Buckthorn Oil! It's amazing for treating the itch & keeping it away.

Seabuckthorn is considered a super-fruit, and rightly so. It helps boost the immune system protects the health of respiratory, digestive and urogenital tract. Seriously, this stuff has tons of benefits I don't think I'll be able to name all!

Reasons to Love Natura-Nutra's Products

- Natura-Nutra Sea Buckthorn berries are manually harvested from shrubs in Tibet, the highest and cleanest plateau on earth, away from pollutants or pesticides. The berries are processed with CO₂ extraction which maintains 100% purity of the oil.  

-  This product is approved by Health Canada as Natural Health Product, NPN number 80026512. All Natura-Nutra nutrition supplements carry an NPN number (Natural Product Number). Herb's Best Nutrition operates under the guideline of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

- Natura-Nutra's Sea Buckthorn Extract Powder and Capsules are the only Sea Buckthorn product in the market that provides the water soluble nutrients and active ingredients from the Sea Buckthorn berry, at 4 : 1 condensed concentration.

- Up to 40% of the Sea Buckthorn oil is omega-7!

- Natura-Nutra's high-potency powder is extracted from manually-harvested Sea Buckthorn berries.

- It is organic Source, 100% pure, all natural and eco-friendly.

-Natura-Nutra Sea Buckthorn source berries are organic cultivated and hand-picked. Of all the tests conducted, their Sea Buckthorn products are shown to be pesticide free, heavy metal-free and contaminant-free.

-Natura-Nutra is a "green company." In striving to keep the earth "green," they help Sea Buckthorn farmers in dry areas to grow the plants as their source materials. This has turned the barren land back to cultivatable soil. While harvesting nutrient-rich berries, Natura-Nutra is contributing to a greener earth.