Sea buckthorn is a valuable medicinal plant because its fruits are rich in vitamins, essential fatty acids, carotenoids, tocopherols, and plant sterols. The useful properties of sea buchkthorn have long been used in traditional medicine and cosmetic production. For example, well-known Russian cosmetic company Pervoe Reshenie (First Solution) offers a line of personal care products entitled Agafia’s Sea Buckthorn.
Pervoe Reshenie is a Russian cosmetic manufacturer whose products enjoy high demand in Russia and neighbouring countries. Its first brand, Granny Agafia’s Recipes, was launched in 2002 and has since become one of the most popular natural cosmetic brands in its country of origin. The company regularly launches new brands “by Agafia”, combining the useful properties of Siberian plants and traditional recipes with the latest developments in pharmacology and cosmetic production. Granny Agafia’s Recipes 5 Juices is one of these brands.
Products that make up this cosmetic line are formulated with natural juices and oils extracted from five Siberian plants known for their medicinal properties. They are Siberian pine (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Siberian cedar), juniper, cloudberry, sea buckthorn and schisandra (five-flavour berry). To survive in the harsh climate of Siberia, these plants have to actively accumulate vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. For example, Altai sea buckthorn contains a higher concentration of vitamins than sea buckthorn grown in Central Russia where the climate is milder.
The fruits of sea buckthorn owe their cheerful orange colour to carotenoids, primarily beta-carotene also known as provitamin A. They also contain B vitamins as well as vitamins C, E and K. Other nutrients contained in sea buckthorn include organic acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, tannins and flavonoids.
Due to such a high content of useful substances sea blackthorn oil is used in medicine as an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory treatment. It stimulates skin regeneration and helps to treat some skin conditions. As a cosmetic ingredient, sea buckthorn oil can be found in nourishing skin and hair care products. Granny Agafia’s Recipes 5 Juices presents a line of cosmetic products formulated with sea buckthorn oil. Agafia’s Sea Buckthorn embodies all the useful properties of sea buckthorn in a convenient packaging.
The Agafia’s Sea Buckthorn line includes a variety of hair and skin care products: a shampoo, a hair conditioner, a hair oil, a hair spray, two hair masks, a hair and body soap, a shower gel, a body scrub, a hand cream, and a foot cream. Each product is formulated with Altai sea buckthorn oil or juice and enriched with other natural ingredients.
Agafia’s Sea Buckthorn shampoo and hair conditioner are suitable for all hair types. They contain sea buckthorn juice, linseed oil, golden root extract, Amur cork tree bark extract, and tocopherol (vitamin E). This blend of natural ingredients nourishes hair follicles, makes the hair thicker and stronger, enhances hair volume. If you use these two products regularly, your hair will quickly become tamer, silkier and shinier.
Agafia’s Golden Siberian Hair Oil is specifically designed for dry and damaged hair. Its key ingredients are Siberian pine oil, sea buckthorn oil, burdock oil (burdock root oil extract), vitamin E and colloidal gold. The blend of vegetable oils actively nourishes and moisturises the hair, stimulates its growth, prevents brittle hair and split ends. Sea buckthorn hair masks and hair spray will enhance the effect of oil and help to lock in the moisture and nutrients. Hair masks intensively nourish and moisturise the hair, keep it looking healthy and conditioned. Hair spray makes combing and styling easier and restores the healthy shine of your hair.
Agafia’s thick bath soap is designed to take care of both your hair and skin. It contains sea buckthorn fruit juice, organic soapwort extract (as a gentle natural cleaning agent), rose hip oil, common mallow extract, orange peel oil, and vitamin C. The soap can be used during your regular bath or shower as well as in the sauna. It excellently nourishes and moisturises the skin and hair, refuting the stereotype that effective 2-in-1 products for hair and skin don’t exist.
Body care products offered by Granny Agafia’s Recipes 5 Juices include a shower gel with sea buckthorn juice and cowberry seed oil, a body scrub with sea buckthorn oil and buckwheat honey, a softening hand cream, and a nourishing vitamin foot cream. All these products effectively moisturise and nourish the skin due to their high content of vitamins and essential fatty acids, prevent dehydration, and make your skin soft and supple.
You can buy Agafia’s Sea Buckthorn products as well as other personal care products branded as Granny Agafia’s Recipes 5 Juices in our online shop Organic Store. Experience the whole range of the useful properties of Siberian plants at a reasonable price!
