The story of our Tamanu Balm, from nut to pot.
The Seed of an Concept
There’s a whole lot of coronary heart packed into Tamanu Balm, our inexperienced all-in-one skincare saviour. The preliminary thought got here to our Founder, Susie, after one among our Ambassadors instructed her a few scar on her face from a automotive accident when she was youthful. Susie needed to create a product that might assist with pores and skin restore and scale back the looks of scarring, and so the hunt for highly effective plant components started.
Going Inexperienced
Indigenous to the islands of French Polynesia, the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, is a little-known evergreen tree referred to as the tamanu tree. From this tree develop small, sweet-smelling white flowers that produce fleshy fruit the scale of an apricot, and it’s inside this small fruit that the tamanu tree shops its skin-saving secret.
Inside is a nut, which could be pressed to make tamanu oil, an ingredient that has been utilized by communities within the Pacific and Polynesian islands for hundreds of years, domestically known as ‘inexperienced gold’. This inexperienced oil earned its second title due to its huge pores and skin advantages, possessing anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and antioxidant properties – A’s throughout the board principally. It additionally promotes the formation of recent pores and skin tissue, and it’s been used as a pure treatment for a complete host of pores and skin illnesses prior to now, from burns and bites, to stings, stretch marks, cuts, and dry pores and skin. Most of all, these regenerative qualities made it good for the balm Susie needed to create as a result of it helps to scale back the looks of scarring.
Within the Lab
When Susie was within the lab engaged on the formulation for Tamanu Balm, she was initially involved concerning the inexperienced hue and distinct natural scent from the tamanu oil, nevertheless it turned out to be one thing that makes this skin-nourishing balm uniquely Tropic.
We determined to sustainably supply our tamanu oil from Madagascar, a melting pot of efficient tropical components, the place the nuts are gathered by hand, manually air-dried, after which pressed to reap the best high quality oil. Alongside tamanu oil’s regenerative skills, Susie determined so as to add different components akin to raspberry and blackcurrant seed oils to ship additional antioxidant advantages and defend in opposition to air pollution and free radicals, including shea and cupuaçu butters to appease and promote smoother, extra supple pores and skin. Not solely was the ultimate formulation efficient at decreasing seen scarring, nevertheless it additionally advantages minor pores and skin scrapes and itchy bug bites too.
A Labour of Love
As soon as Susie was proud of the formulation, in-house manufacturing might start and the product was launched. Our Tamanu Balm – each the mini and the full-sized model – joined the Tropic vary again in 2014, nevertheless it’s nonetheless freshly made and poured at Tropic HQ in the present day.
As soon as the balm is made, it’s then poured by hand into pots. It needs to be heated first utilizing particular warmth plates so it’s liquid sufficient to pour, after which it’s poured into the pots utilizing a funnel. As soon as poured, it’s then left to chill and set – returning again to the soothing balmy texture – earlier than heading out the door to our clients. This course of may sound fiddly, nevertheless it’s the easiest way to make sure the components are as recent and potent as potential, sustaining the easy-to-apply balmy texture. As with all our merchandise, our Tamanu Balm is a labour of affection.
