Bladderwrack Tincture (Fucus Vesiculosus)

Bladderwrack is a brown seaweed, botanically named Fucus vesiculosus, that grows along the rocky shores of the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its common name comes from the small, paired air bladders along its fronds - little pockets of gas that keep the seaweed floating upright in the water so it can reach sunlight. It is also known as rockweed and black tang. As a seaweed, it has no true root; instead it anchors to rocks with a structure called a holdfast, which is why our product is made from the whole plant (the entire thallus) rather than a root or leaf. Like other sea vegetables, bladderwrack naturally contains iodine and a range of sea minerals. Our extract is offered in two forms - a traditional alcohol-based tincture and an alcohol-free glycerite - each made from ethically sourced, wild-harvested raw material. This is a whole-plant liquid extract that carries the seaweed's natural spectrum of constituents, not an isolated or standardized single-compound product, and we label it clearly by botanical name and part used.