Ingredient library
Every plant, oil and butter that goes into a Nurtur Health product: what it is, how it is used here, what it has traditionally been used for, and when not to use it.
Herbs, flowers and botanicals
Infused into oil, distilled and added as essential oil, or milled into a cleansing grain.
A root used purely for colour. Turns infused oil deep red without dye or pigment.
Wildcrafted Canadian evergreen. The scent of a northern forest, and the heart of the beard and lip range.
Green, peppery and unexpected. A bright herbal note in the massage oil.
The one warm accent in the whole brand, and the gentlest plant in the range. Good first choice for reactive skin.
Seed and root, rich in carotenoids. Deep orange, and used for its colour and antioxidant content.
Calming, well-studied, and one of the few herbs almost everyone tolerates.
Latin for "to join." Rich in allantoin. Topical only, never on broken skin — and here is exactly why.
Creamy, delicate and old-fashioned. A classic European skin herb for the face.
Sharp, cooling and unmistakable. The opening note of the chest rub.
Resin rather than leaf. Warm, dry and faintly citrus — the note that makes a blend smell expensive.
Rose-like without the price of rose. Green, floral and balancing in face blends.
Wild-harvested at flowering. Turns oil blood-red. Raises sun sensitivity — read before you apply.
Dry, gin-like and astringent. A clarifying note in the recovery bath soak.
The most-used aromatic in the range. Soft, familiar, and gentle enough for face, body and bath.
Warm, soft and slightly sweet. The gentler cousin of oregano, used in massage blends.
Pure crystallised menthol from cornmint. The strongest cooling agent in the range.
A mineral-rich weed with a long reputation for hair and scalp.
Finely milled oat. The classic ingredient for itchy, reactive skin, and the softest exfoliant in the range.
Cold-pressed sweet orange peel. A bright top note that lifts heavier resins and butters.
Deep, earthy and grounding. A base note that anchors lighter oils and improves with age.
Cooling and sharp. The tingle in the hands-and-feet balm and the lip balm.
Eastern white pine. Resinous, forest-floor scented, and the counterweight to juniper in the bath soak.
The weed in your driveway. Cooling, allantoin-bearing, and the first thing to reach for when skin itches.
Finely milled rice flour. A mild polishing grain with a long record in East Asian skin care.
The hundred-petalled cabbage rose. Softer and sweeter than damask, used in the infusions.
Damask rose, solvent-extracted. The deepest and most expensive rose note in the range.
Bright, resinous and stimulating. The backbone of the hair oil and a natural antioxidant in the salves.
Silver-leaved, camphorous and clarifying. Used where a formula needs to feel clean rather than sweet.
An unassuming lawn plant with a long folk history in skin care.
The cleanest of the three conifers. Crisp, bright and slightly sweet.
Sharp, medicinal and powerfully aromatic. Used in very small proportion.
A grass root, not a leaf. Smoky, damp and earthy — the deepest base note here.
Heady, sweet and tropical. A floral base note used sparingly in the body blends.
Carrier oils and butters
The base every formula is built on — what the herbs are infused into, and what gives a balm or butter its body.
Lighter than almond, softer than jojoba. A quiet carrier for face and body.
Moroccan, hand-pressed, and high in vitamin E. The luxury carrier of the hair oil.
Thick, sticky and unlike anything else. Used in small proportion for shine and slip.
Hard, brittle and faintly chocolate. The structural butter that gives a balm its snap.
Light, quick and clean. Used as fractionated oil in balms, butters and blends.
High in gamma-linolenic acid. A delicate oil used for its fatty-acid profile rather than its feel.
Very high in alpha-linolenic acid. Used here as ground seed in the cleansing grains rather than as a pressed oil.
The lightest carrier in the range. Almost weightless, and a by-product of winemaking.
Technically a liquid wax, not an oil. Light, fast-absorbing and close to skin's own sebum.
A butter that melts cleanly and leaves less residue than shea.
Black seed oil. Sharp, peppery and unmistakable, used in small proportion.
The base of almost everything Nurtur makes. Heavy, stable, and the traditional choice for infusing herbs.
Dark green and zinc-rich. An unusual carrier with a distinctive character.
Pressed from the seed of the wild rose hip. High in linoleic acid and naturally orange.
Intensely orange and used by the drop. One of the richest natural sources of carotenoids.
West African nut butter. Solid at room temperature, rich in unsaponifiables, and what gives a balm its body.
The classic massage oil. Light, slippery, neutral in scent and gentle enough for most skin.