Wanting to add Middle Eastern Herbs and Remedies to your routine? Check out these 7 Middle Eastern Wellness Brands To Fall In Love With!
Despite progress in science and technology, herbal remedies remain one of the most common practices in the middle eastern region. While the use of botanical medicine has much to do with cultural beliefs, it has roots in the rich history of Arabic medicine. Hence, even today, many Middle Eastern brands use active ingredients and herbal medicine to enhance the efficacy of their products.
Middle Eastern businesses have always lacked proper representation. However, recently this issue has drawn a lot of attention, and Middle Eastern-owned wellness brands are making waves and redefining a healthy lifestyle worldwide. In order to impart lasting changes in the industry, consumers must play their part, too.
So as a consumer, how can you help? For starters, support minority-owned businesses and celebrate diversity. It is also important to do your own research and acknowledge to roots of many popular wellness trends.
To make things easy, we’ve compiled a list of 6 Middle Eastern Wellness Brands to support this month.
1.) Numi Tea
Numi Tea was founded by an Iraqi brother-sister duo, Ahmed Rahim and Reem Hassani, in 1999 in Oakland. During their childhood in Iraq, the siblings enjoyed drinking steeped dried desert lime tea which inspired them to come up with their own tea business. In Arabic, the word Numi stands for “citrus,” and the tea symbolizes hospitality and community.
Numi tea consists of potent spices, flowers, roots, and herbs to strengthen your immune system, boost your respiratory health and help you sleep better. With creative and delicious blends and flavors, the drink is sure to tickle your tastebuds.
Numi Teas are found in many major retailers and you can order their products online on their website. They have so many varieties to choose from. Three of our tops pick from Numi Tea include the Gunpowder Green Tea, Rooibos Chai, and Turmeric Three Roots. There is truly something for everyone in their diverse tea selection.
2.) Green Bar
Green Bar is a Bahraini brand featuring naturally hand-crafted skin care products. Owned by Reem al-Khalifa, the company has emerged as one of the best organic middle eastern wellness brands out there. While Khalifa exclusively picks each ingredient from her family-owned garden, she also sources them from local farmers.
The product line is huge and includes everything you need for your mental wellness. Along with best-selling soaps, they also have moisturizers, creams, exfoliants, perfumes, incense, lip balms, relaxing body oils, and so much more.
3.) The Dirty Lamb
The Dirty Lamb is a top-shelf middle eastern wellness brand. It is a natural skin care line founded in 2016 by an American-Palestinian woman Ahlam Abbas. Before fully committing to her business, Abbas was working as a NICU nurse in Ohio. Unhappy with skin products available in the market, the 25-year-old decided to launch her own product line.
Abbas also has a passion for cooking and fuses her childhood kitchen staples to create gender-neutral handmade skin care products. Made with 100% natural ingredients, her product lineup consists of Multi-use Oils, handmade loofah, coffee masks and scrubs, cleansing oils, serums, and much more.
4.) Ahmad Tea
With its roots in Iran, Ahmad tea is among the best-selling middle eastern wellness brands. It is a family-owned business, founded by Rahim Afshar more than three decades ago in the pursuit of creating a unique blend for tea lovers all over the world.
In the early 1950s, Afshar began importing tea from India and later immigrated to the United Kingdom and set up their own tea company. Legend has it that the exotic tea blends improve heart health, increase metabolism, aid digestion, stabilize blood sugar and prevent cancer among other benefits.
5.) Sadaf Foods
Sadaf Foods is a joint-venture of two brothers, who stumbled upon the idea in 1982 after leaving their home country to settle in Los Angeles. Once home sickness kicked in, they started craving familiar tastes, spices, and aromas that were impossible to find in American stores. The duo founded the Mediterranean Gourmet Foods company to help their community members find a small piece of home in their own kitchen.
With nearly three decades in the market, Sadaf has become a household middle eastern wellness brand name. The product range includes teas, ready-to-eat meals, spices, sauces, honey, pickles, canned products, you name it.
We reccomend stokcing up on Dried Mint from Sadaf, as it is used is many Radiantly Nourished Recipes!
6.) Cortas Foods
Cortas foods started in 1925 in Brummana, Lebanon with their delicious apricot jam. After almost a century, Cortas Foods has expanded their product line to include all of the essentials of a Lebanese kitchen. From canned vegetables and olive oil to flower waters, they have it all.
If you follow Radiantly Nourished on Instagram you have seen Cortas Foods Rose Water countless times. It is an essential product in both my wellness and beauty routine!
I hope you enjoyed reading through this list of Middle Eastern Wellness Brands. I know there has to be more out there, so if you know of any you think would be a great addition to this list, leave a comment or send me a DM on Instagram. I cannot wait to hear your favorites!
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Jordana
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