Most “natural” brands buy ingredients from a catalog. Haeckels literally walks to the English coast and harvests their own seaweed.
They forage everything within a few miles of their Margate workshop. No supply chain. Just a guy in waders with scissors.
It’s £48 for 30ml. A face oil, not a body oil. I tried it because the founder said they “harvest by the phases of the moon” — and I needed to know if that actually mattered.
Sea Buckthorn CO2 Extract
Bright orange. Stains your pillowcase. Worth it.
Seaweed Ferment
Smells like low tide. That’s the good stuff.
Cold-Pressed Only
No heat. No solvents. Just crushing.
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Four ingredients. That’s it. No water, no filler, no “fragrance” hiding anything. The hero is sea buckthorn — 190mg of omega-7 per drop. That’s the rare fatty acid that actually heals barrier damage instead of just coating it.
- Sea Buckthorn Oil: Omega-7 repairs sun damage from the inside out
- Vitamin E: Stops the oil going rancid in 6 months — use it fast
- Chamomile: Calms the redness sea buckthorn sometimes causes
- Seaweed Ferment: Adds trace minerals lab oils can’t replicate
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It’s thin. Almost watery. Absorbs in 12 seconds flat — no greasy film, no waiting. First night I slathered it on and my face felt… quiet. Like it stopped arguing with me.
Week two my skin got slightly bumpy. Purge? Or the seaweed ferment pushing out congestion? I backed off to 2 drops instead of 4. Problem solved. This oil demands respect — you can’t drown in it.
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Three weeks in: my left cheek (always red) is now the same color as my right cheek. Pores look smaller — probably because they’re not inflamed anymore. Still have some texture on my chin. But the overall tone shift is undeniable.
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Most face oils are overpriced moisturizers in a smaller bottle. This is the real thing — wild, alive, and annoyingly effective.