Osage Healthcare, a personal care ingredients and products company based in Burlington, Iowa, manufactures hair care products for the professional market under the Pomifera brand and supplies Alcone with the seed oil used in the company’s One Drop Wonder oil. increase.
This ingredient has been overlooked as a folk remedy for decades. “Johnson recalled his great-uncle’s story of cutting open hedge balls during the Great Depression and rubbing them to heal skin cuts and abrasions.” George C. Ford of The Gazette, a Cedar Rapids daily, reports.
Johnson is the company’s president and CEO, Todd Johnson, whose early career was in drug development.
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Pomifera oil fits well with the current industry trend of sustainably sourcing natural ingredients.
Salon professionals at Cost Cutters and Capri College, Iowa’s school of cosmetology and cosmetology, use and sell this oil. The company’s shampoos, conditioners, hair oils and hair gels are growing in popularity. “By infusing our pure vegan oils during the coloring process, we are able to bring the lightener down to the ends and offer our customers a rebuilding chemical service.” Renee Ellsworth, a hairdresser for over 30 years, told Ford:
This is an anecdote that validates the observations Johnson made along the product development path. “Growing up in southern Iowa, I remember squirrels and deer eating apple seeds in hedgerows and leaving the rest in the mess…. I knew that eating seeds contained nutrients such as amino acids, proteins and high-value oils contained in seeds.” Johnson tells Ford. na
Also, according to the Gazette article, the use of the fruit as a folk remedy suggests that scientists may have documented antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties.
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Alcone launched LimeLight, an all-natural luxury skincare line last year. The company has been around since 1950 when he supplied cosmetics to Broadway performers.
Since then, the much-expanded Alcone operates a shop near New York City’s theater district where they do very good business with makeup artists, performers and industry insiders.
The LimeLight brand product portfolio consists of skincare, makeup and application tools. And One Drop Wonder Facial Oil is Osage Healthcare’s Pomifera Oil. Retail price for 0.5 oz product is $84.
This contrasts with the $180 trial price for a tonne of raw fruit purchased by Osage. “Local Farmers, 4-H Groups, Amish” According to the Gazette. Because the trees were planted decades ago as natural fences, the fruit grows abundantly along the property lines of farmland in and around Iowa.
