Herbal Remedies Product News Brief NB

Nuwati Herbals Offers Herbal Remedies from Mother Earth

After 19 years Nuwati Herbals is going strong and still growing thanks to our many loyal customers! We offer retailers “Herbal Remedies from Mother Earth” produced by our Family USA business that include Tea Blends, Balms, Spa Products, a Pet line and a DEET FREE insect repellent. The Nuwati line can be found in a wide variety of venues, Gift Shops, Zoos, Museums, Coffee and Tea Shops, Spas, Hotels and more. With fun and interesting names like Bear in the Woods Tea, Indian Blanket Balm, Share My Blanket Tea, customers are inspired to reach for Nuwati products! (For more information, call 314-962-5229, visit www.NuwatiHerbals.com, or circle 65 on the reader service card.)

home products like incense at Taj Mahal Imports in Los Angeles. “People are buying a lot of it,” said Manager Wahid Rahaman . For 20 years, customers have flocked to Taj Mahal for raw shea, mango, and cocoa butters; more than 3,000 essential oils; Afro-Caribbean products like Jamaican black castor oil; and the store’s own line of lotions made from ingredients like hemp, goat’s milk, olive butter and green tea.

But the most popular single category, hands down, is the vast selection of African black soap. These are made according to a traditional method from plantain skins that are dried and then roasted with oils and cocoa pod ashes in a clay oven. Taj Mahal carries African black soap in a variety of formats and brands, from Nubian versions to body wash, lotions, and soap by the pound. “We sell an awful lot of black soap, and people know us for the variety that we have,” Rahaman said. ❖

Colorful soap loaves photographed at The Soap Kitchen. Essential oils, not perfumes, are used during the soap-making process at the store.

Colorful bars of soap are part of the inventory at The Soap Kitchen. All of the store’s products are made onsite in a kitchen using allnatural ingredients.