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Birch Bark Extract at Work
A STORY HANDED DOWN FOR GENERATIONS
The Mi'kmaq have long known the secret to soothing worried skin. As Mi'kmaw legend goes, there was once a young woman, shunned and overlooked for her troubled skin. But a chance meeting with a fabled hunter, who saw only her pure heart and spirit, changed her life.
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"Within a day of using the soap, the itching had completely stopped, and she saw an improvement in the inflammation. She’s been using the products daily for more than a year and says she is never without them."
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Traditional Mi'kmaw medicine could become modern skin therapy
"We have great anecdotal evidence now," said Bierenstiel. "People [are] coming back to us and saying, 'I used it. My skin hasn't been better. My outbreak on the skin has been cleared up within a few days, almost miraculously'."
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