Discover Rooibos Skin Care
How rooibos also becomes visible in skin care in South Africa.
Discover Rooibos Skin Care
Outside South Africa, very few people would think of looking for rooibos skin care products. Yet this is precisely where a side of rooibos becomes visible that is much more naturally part of everyday life in South Africa.
This page is meant to open exactly that way in: not as a company portrait and not as a product catalogue, but as an accessible introduction to a South African skin care idea in which rooibos extract plays a central role.
A look into the product world of African Extracts quickly makes visible that, in South Africa, rooibos plays a concrete role not only as a drink, but also in skin care.
Why rooibos appears in skin care products
In South Africa, rooibos is not only a drink. Rooibos is also connected with a traditional knowledge of healing plants, linked to South African San and Khoi traditions, which still places the plant within a context of everyday life, plant knowledge and skin care.
Modern skin care carries this plant knowledge forward. It takes up rooibos as a plant-based ingredient to which skin care properties are attributed. This creates products that are not only intended for care, but also retain a recognisable connection to the plant, its origin and South African skin care culture.
Rooibos extract makes it especially tangible how plant knowledge becomes a modern ingredient in South African skin care.
African Extracts as the key brand
African Extracts is the brand with which rooibos skin care began in the shop. It shows especially well how rooibos extract does not simply appear in individual products, but can support an entire skin care range.
In South Africa, African Extracts has an even broader range. Those who know the brand from there often also encounter further skin care ranges such as Purifying, Radiance or Hydrofirm.
The Classic, Advantage and Original for Men ranges are currently available in the shop.
At African Extracts, it becomes visible how rooibos is now integrated into a modern product world without completely losing its connection to plant and origin.
Classic is the range for anyone who would like to get to know rooibos skin care in a clear and everyday form.
Advantage is aimed more at mature skin and at people who want to look more specifically at first or visible signs of skin ageing.
Original for Men opens the way into rooibos skin care through a range tailored to men’s skin.
Rooibos remains the focus
Rooibos remains the focus of this page. However, other Fynbos plants also belong to South Africa’s skin care world. Buchu, Honeybush and Cancerbush also appear in South Africa in skin creams and complementary care products.
This is not intended to be more than a first orientation at this point. These plants are only made briefly visible here. What matters most is this: rooibos remains the core of this page, but it does not stand entirely alone within the South African plant world.
Where to go from here
From here, the path leads on to the shop, to African Extracts and to further South African plant worlds.
Those who would like to continue can go directly into rooibos skin care or open their view towards other plant worlds.