Skin Essence remains dedicated to producing products locally in small batches to ensure both quality and freshness. All their products are certified organic. Organic certification organizations independently verify every step of the process from farming, handling, manufacturing processes, record keeping, cleaning products, label accuracy, and product packaging. These beautiful skin products meet and exceed the strict requirements for this certification every year, helping people make the healthiest and most beneficial choice for their cosmetics in a virtually unregulated industry.

Don’t forget to start your facial care routine with a balanced Skin Essence Facial Cleanser

Benefits of Oil based Moisturizers

The skin naturally produces oils

• Since your body naturally produces oils, it knows how to work with them and is able to absorb them far better than a traditional cream based moisturizer. Using the right oils to hydrate your specific skin type will create a healthy pH balance and oils have the ability to absorb deep into the skin, hydrating around the sebaceous glands (oil producing glands). This deep absorption provides the skin with a complete hydration, which reduces its desire to create excess oil (sebum).
• Certain plant oils also have a small enough molecular structure to efficiently absorb through the epidermis (first layer of our skin), which provides nourishing benefits, as opposed to a traditional cream based moisturizer that would remain on the surface of the skin and is unable to fully absorb.

High in Antioxidants

• Choosing a plant-based oil that is organic, and cold pressed ensures that all of the ingredients used are concentrated, which means that your skin will be able to absorb the beneficial antioxidants and nutrients the plant ingredients provide.

No fillers

• Plant oils are pure without the use of fillers or water! Cream based products typically use fillers (waxes and emulsifiers), or Aqua (water) therefore you end up losing the concentration and nutritional benefits offered by the key ingredients used in the formulation.
• Creams also typically go through a heat process during creation, which can drastically compromise the vitamins, minerals and enzymes naturally found in the plants. Excess heat exposure can change a product that would be great for the skin, to become less effective when heat is involved, because a majority of the healing and nourishing benefits would be diminished.

Customizable

• Unlike a cream that is one consistency, an oil can be exactly what you need depending on your specific skin’s hydration needs. The more oil you use with each application, the richer and more hydrating it is. As an added bonus, you can blend oil-based moisturizers with a couple drops of water if you want lighter hydration!

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Available in delicious Organic Chocolate, Organic Tropical,
Organic Vanilla Chai, and Unflavoured.

About Fermented Organic Protein & Greens 

Whole Earth & Sea Fermented Organic Protein & Greens is a 100% fermented, plant-based superfood formula featuring 21 g of the cleanest possible plant-based vegan protein per serving. This unique food supplement harnesses the power of natural fermentation to deliver a broad spectrum of highly bioavailable nutrients and protein in a single, convenient serving. Fermented Organic Protein & Greens features an organic fruit, vegetable, and grass blend, grown at Factors Farms in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.

The formula also features a blend of micronized medicinal mushrooms including cordyceps, reishi, himematsutake, shiitake, maitake, and turkey tail rich in polysaccharide to help you thrive. In recent years, scientists have found that fermentation, a traditional food preservation technique, can enhance the bioavailability of nutrients from food, effectively “predigesting” otherwise indigestible plant materials to release a food’s full nutritional potency while easing digestion. Fermentation also enhances protein quality and can produce unique polyphenolic compounds including antioxidant flavonoids!

Fermented Organic Protein & Greens is a vegan-friendly, gluten-free, non-dairy, and non-GMO formula sweetened with low-glycemic stevia, and only contains natural organic flavours. This innovative formula goes beyond standard greens or protein powders, providing a naturally concentrated source of quality protein and highly bioavailable nutrients to support your active lifestyle.

Suggested Use

Recommended use: Fermentation breaks down otherwise indigestible plant materials, while releasing full nutritional potency to help ease digestion and simultaneously improve absorption. Whole Earth & Sea Fermented Organic Protein & Greens is vegan friendly, packed-full of nutrients, deliciously flavoured, and sweetened with low glycemic stevia. This great tasting formula is certified organic and only contains natural, organic flavours.

Recommended adult dose: Add 1 scoop to 250 mL of water or juice and shake or blend until smooth.

Looking for alternative ways to incorporate Protein & Greens beyond the smoothie? Check out these great recipes

Sundried Tomato Goat Cheese Dip

Vanilla Chai Apple Protein Muffins

Each Scoop Contains:

Fermented Organic Protein Blend – pea protein, rice protein, amaranth, hemp protein, quinoa; Fermented Organic Fruit, Vegetable & Grass Blend – alfalfa, carrot, barley grass, apple, blueberry, cranberry, broccoli, cabbage, arugula, cauliflower, red radish, upland cress, watercress, wheat grass, kale, parsley, spinach, tomato, beet, pepper, Swiss chard, spearmint, celery, basil, artichoke, black radish, cilantro, dandelion; organic alkalized cocoa powder; organic flavours, organic acerola cherry extract; organic rebaudioside A; Fermented Organic Mushroom Blend – cordyceps, reishi, himematsutake, shiitake, maitake, turkey tail.

Caution: Keep out of the reach of children.

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Ecoideas Cacao butter is available in 227g and 454g bags. It is also available in chip form, making it perfect for baking. Like all Ecoideas superfoods, it comes in a certified biodegradable bag. The Granary is happy to work with companies like Ecoideas that value the environment and make sustainable business practices one of their core values.

What is Cacao Butter?

To make the butter, cacao beans are cold pressed to extract the oil — similar to olives and olive oil. Instead of olive oil, however, you get theobroma oil. At room temperature, this oil solidifies just like coconut oil. But when it’s applied to your skin, cacao butter melts like a lotion and is quickly absorbed into your pores for instant moisturizing. But you can also eat cacao butter to reap its many health benefits.

It’s commonly used to make chocolate — it’s the fatty emulsifier that blends cacao nibs, milk solids, and sugar together — and what gives chocolate that melt-in-your-mouth, silky quality. While cocoa butter does have hints of chocolate flavor, the texture is more like coconut butter and coconut oil combined.

It’s also typically used as a dairy-free substitute for grass-fed butter.

Ecoideas cacao supplier supports the farmers in Peru by helping with training programs to obtain food safety and quality certifications. Its main objective is to increase the quality and quantity of organic and sustainable cocoa production to improve the standard of living of small farmers.

The program began in 2008 and has consolidated a positive impact in the life of more than 5000 cocoa farmers. Also it has established a positive environmental impact and the sustainable development of the area of intervention.

Features:

• Certified Organic & Fair trade
• Rich in healthy fatty acids
• High in antioxidants
• For culinary and topical use
• Pressed at low temperature
• Great for making chocolate bars and drinks

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Glass Sprout Jar

Get growing with a glass sprout jar. Growing sprouts is an easy and frugal way to have fresh greens on your counter top all year round. These glass growing jars from SproutMaster make sprout growing easy and fun for the whole family. Each sprout jar comes with a set of instructions to get you growing safely. Go Zero Waste and grow your own sprouts over and over again and ditch the plastic packed grocery store sprouts.

Choose from a small 1L jar or fill 2L family size.

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Camino Chocolate Chips

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Camino Bars are always on sale at The Granary with our all the time 3 for $14.00 Deal.

All Camino chocolate bars are gluten-free and soy lecithin-free. Many bars are vegan friendly They are also packaged in a compostable bio-foil, then wrapped in a recyclable FSC paper.

Camino chocolate bars are made in Switzerland. They are Fairtrade certified by Fairtrade Canada, certified Organic by QAI, and certified kosher.

What’s a Fair Deal?

The purchase of Camino products ensures a fair deal for family farmers by:

• Guaranteeing fair prices to family farmers;
• Paying premiums to improve social conditions in communities of family farmers;
• Paying family farmers in advance to assist in long-term planning and pre-harvest financing;
• Supporting democratic participation in farmer-owned co-operatives;
• Ensuring that there is no forced labour; and
  Supporting sustainable farming practices.

For more reasons to support Fair Trade, check out this article 10 Reasons to Support Fair Trade

Why Organic Farming Practices?

Organic practices:

• Promote the diversification of plants and trees;
• Provide an ecological equilibrium;
• Reduce the incidence of plagues and disease;
• Fertilize the soil with harvest residuals;
• Generate additional income through the premium paid for certified organic products;
• Enrich family diets with fruit from shade-giving trees; and,
• Generate additional income through the sale of additional fruit harvest from shade-giving trees.

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Monkfruit

Monkfruit, also known as lo han guo or Swingle fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii), is a small round fruit native to southern China. It has been used for centuries in Eastern medicine as a cold and digestive aid, and now it is also being used to sweeten foods and beverages. Monkfruit sweeteners are created by removing the seeds and skin of the fruit, crushing the fruit, and collecting the juice. Monkfruit is extremely sweet making it hard to measure and pour, only very small amounts of monk fruit sweeteners are needed to achieve the sweetness of sugar. The juice of the monk fruit is up to 200 times sweeter than cane sugar! To make measuring and pouring easier, they are typically blended with common approved food ingredients. Ecoideas Monkfruit is blended with xylitol to make it a 1:1 sugar substitute. Monkfruit is a low carb sweetener that is popular for paleo and keto diets or anyone trying to eat lower carbohydrates.

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Organic Raw Seeds

Organic Seeds are tiny powerhouses. Little superfoods. Small yet mighty. Seeds are crops at their very beginning stage of life. Because they contain all the nutrients essential for growing a healthy and resilient plant, they offer our bodies a wealth of benefits when we eat them. Seeds are extremely versatile and can be incorporated easily into a variety of different recipes.

At The Granary we source organic, Canadian grown seeds whenever possible. We store them in hermetically sealed canning jars or in the fridge. All of our overstock is always refrigerated to ensuring you can buy the freshest product possible.

We encourage customers to reduce waste by bringing their own, clean container to refill. Please remember to have your container weighed by staff prior to filling to ensure you do not pay for the weight of the container. Paper bags are often provided as a low waste option, however paper is not a suitable storage container and is for transportation only. All Seeds are priced per 100g

 

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Organic Oats in Bulk

Oats are a diet staple for many. From breakfast to dessert, oats are versatile and provide lots of nutrition. They are are high in fibre as well as important vitamins and nutrients. A balanced diet that includes organic oats can contribute to healthy weight management, good cholesterol levels and so much more. All of our bulk oats products are Canadian grown and certified organic. While not certified gluten free, many gluten sensitive customers find our oats suitable for their restricted diet.

Organic Oats are sold by weight. We encourage customers to bring their own container or opt for a paper bag for transportation purposed. Paper is not a suitable storage material for bulk food. When bringing your own container, please be sure to have it weighed before filling so you do not pay for the weight of your container.

For online ordering purposes, prices are set per 100g. To order 1Kg of oats please order 10 units of 100g

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Made with natural plant based ingredients like Olive oil, Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter, Coconut Oil and Mango Butter these soaps are rich, luxurious and perfect for all skin types. Scented with pure essential oils and wrapped in beautiful cloth. Each bar is hand cut, hand wrapped and make the perfect gift for you.

Choose your favourite Ground Soap

Medicine Man (Tea Tree)
Black Cricket (Lavender)
Body Breath (Peppermint)
Lemme Bee Your Honey (Lemon)
Plain Jane (Unscented)
Boldly Humble (Anise & Lavender)
Bright & Feisty (Citrus)
Grove (Woodsy Pine & Cedar)
Back Bone (Cinnamon & Sweet Orange)
Aum (Patchouli)

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