Nature's Wisdom
Root of Africa offers you an extensive range of natural herbal wellness products to assist and facilitate wellbeing. Using time-honoured indigenous African plant knowledge, we make tinctures, capsules, and powders. We distil from nature what is good and provide it in an easy-to-use form. Our products help you to maintain and restore good health and can support a busy lifestyle. They bring balance, healing, and wellbeing.
Africa is home to the cradle of humankind; it is ancient, as is the efficacious use of its plants as remedies. Many centuries of indigenous plant knowledge have brought us to where we are.
Root of Africa makes this rich biodiversity of Africa’s powerful plant remedies available to you. They help you to proactively maintain wellness but also offer a therapeutic intervention for a wide range of ailments, both physical and emotional. They support the journey towards a healthier you and your family.
Herbal Remedies
Ensuring purity, potency and high quality
Training
Inform, educate and inspire people
Consultation
Personalised herbal care plans
Wellbeing
African Retreats, Weekend Retreats, Nature Retreats
Popular ranges
Pick Me Up
Get centred, balanced and ‘in your flow’ with our Pick Me Up range. It meets you at your point of need, walking with you whatever the weather. The range offers you a holistic and balanced solution to get you going again. You have a friend in our Pick Me Up range.
Digesto
Nurture wellness. Our Digesto range offers a natural, holistic solution for improving digestive function and wellbeing. It cleanses, detoxifies, and energises to improve vitality and support gut health.
Immuno Range
Nourish your body with the essence of African botanicals, crafted to support the immune system and promote balance and vitality. They work together with your body’s natural defences to improve immediate immune health and promote long-term wellness.
Our Values
We care about your wellbeing and seeing you living your best life and enjoying good health.
Our natural herbal products are crafted and potentised with utmost care, prioritising quality so that you receive products you can trust. We stay true to nature, borne out by the smell, taste and feel of the plant material we work with. The intrinsic, evolutionary connection to nature and our ancestral past is the cornerstone of what we do.
Our primary goal is to provide products that prioritise the wellbeing of both people and planet, which involves minimising our environmental impact. We mostly wild harvest our herbs, taking just what we need and ensuring that the plant can continue to grow and thrive, as it should. Our herbs are natural and organic and are cruelty-free.
We care about reconnecting people to nature – we are all co-dependent. We recognise that nature has many of the answers we seek. The inherent goodness present in indigenous African botanicals can enable people to be and to stay well. We champion this recoupling; being alive to the way our forefathers lived – a renaissance, a re-remembering and a reconnecting to nature and its great consciousness.
We work in tandem with rural communities, including a focus on indigenous youth. We offer training and employment opportunities in sustainable harvesting and conservation. We pay a fair price for the plant material harvested for us.
Our Mission
Our mission is to inspire and support generations on their wellness journeys. We see a world where people live out their truest potential, maintaining and restoring good health, unlocked by a healthier lifestyle supported and inspired by time-honoured African wisdom.
We see people thriving, knowing that their health and wellbeing are being taken care of. We promote the sustainable cycle: where nature provides for us, where products are made respecting nature’s form and are fairly sourced, and where our customers ‘live life’, aware of nature. For a life rooted in health.
Join our wellness practitioner programme
Wellness practitioners, this is for you. We inform, educate, and inspire people to consider more natural products when making choices for health and wellbeing, and as a wellness practitioner, you may wish to expand your offerings to your clients to include herbal medicines. We have a comprehensive training programme on our products that gives you the confidence to prescribe so that they get manifold holistic support. You can register your interest in the form.