Bladderwrack Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) is not a land plant but a brown seaweed of the Fucaceae family, common on rocky shores on both sides of the North Atlantic, from the White Sea and Iceland to Portugal and from Labrador to North Carolina, as well as the Baltic. It grows 30 to 90 centimeters, anchored by a disc-shaped holdfast, with flat, leathery, olive-brown fronds that fork repeatedly and have a prominent midrib. The paired, pea-sized air bladders along the fronds give the species its name and keep it floating upright at high tide. Dried, it smells strongly of the sea and tastes salty. We extract the dried entire plant.