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Our founder, Venita Machnicki arrived in Sri Lanka in 2014 and picked up a long lost passion for surfing immediately.
She had first tried the sport on Great Barrier Island, off the coast of Auckland, NZ - 10 years earlier and a couple of subsequent fun trips down to Croyde, UK - once back in her home country - got swallowed by those pesky early career efforts.
Our founder worked for 15 years as a Corporate tax lawyer in the city of London. (yawn yawn and triple yawn).
In secret though, her passion since childhood had been the use of natural plant essences for medicine. Since childhood, Venita had never been sent to a doctor when she got sick, instead her mother would treat her with vials of plant essences.
So behind the scenes in all of her spare time since 2010, she had been working with regulatory scientist Deirdre McIntosh around the effectiveness of medical grade plant essences.
With over 25 years’ experience within pharmaceutical product research, development and licensing, Deirdre obtained her PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research (London) researching the plant toxin
ricin as a targeted chemo therapeutic agent.
Together Dierdre and Venita found that when using the right combination of natural plant essences,
extracted to preserve their phytochemicals in perfect harmony with the body, the result was a 100% natural, non-toxic, antibiotic free medical grade solution that could quickly clean, reverse infection and
accelerate wound healing.
This produces a natural product totally different from the synthesized ingredients we experience in lab
created pharmaceuticals and skin disinfectants.
These tend to be the result of isolating a single element from the natural world and recreating it in the
lab. The problem with this is that the hundreds and sometimes thousands of supporting elements are
lost. Without them, the isolated element simply doesn’t work as well.
Lab tests may show that a synthesized ingredient can achieve a certain functions, but the truth is, the skin does not recognize anything that has been processed and seeks to push it out to protect the body from what it sees as a toxic load.
The beauty of medicinal grade plant essences is that in just one drop, you can experience all the entire micro-cosm of the plant and all the healing powers it has to offer.
These amazing plant essences work to support the healing mechanisms of the body itself,
accelerating wound healing and protection against infection.
On arrival in Sri Lanka in 2014 Venita quickly saw there was a big problem with cuts that wouldn’t
heal and would get infected. Especially within the surfing community, people were running into trouble with reef cuts and ear infections and sea ulcers and the anti-biotics they were getting from the pharmacies just weren’t working anymore.
As all surfers know, surf injuries can get serious fast, especially in warmer. Not to mention the regular bathing of the inner ear in sea water bacteria, leading to surfers ear eventually.
The marine environment
carries with it some unusual bacteria. Some of the names to know are Vibrio, Pseudomonas and
Mycobacterium Marinum. Under the umbrella of Vibrio, there are multiple species to watch out for but Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus are common. Staph and Strep are frequently seen pathogens, cultured from saltwater infected wounds.
In Sri Lanka, for example the ocean is home to coral, which is teeming with live microbes that can
complicate the normal healing of a cut or a wound.
In colder water conditions, even a graze on a sea dwelling rock can impart under-water microbes that
can cause similar complications with wound healing and infections.
Seeing the problems that Surfers were running into, and herself having always been treated with
natural plant essences from childhood if she ever got sick, Venita called up Dierdre and ran past her
her own Mother’s original blend for cuts, scrapes, infections sore muscles and literally any ailment that afflicted anyone.
Venita’s mother had been a naturopathic practitioner and aromatherapist and worked with vials of
plant essences back in the 80’s.
These people knew that plant essences when applied topically to
the skin or inhaled, entered the limbic centre of the brain to drive the release of hormones that can
accelerate wound healing and speed the closing of infectious wounds.
The essences also worked on the emotional centres of the brain, calming the mind and mood of the
person, as a plant practitioner knows you need to be relaxed in order to support this accelerated healing, because stress
hormones have the opposite effect.
People using Surfskinoil report that it helps with everything, not just surfers ear, reef cuts and sea ulcers but also
with rashes, muscle aches, trouble sleeping, regular ear-infections, jellyfish stings, you name it, its working!
You can replace your hydrogen peroxide, betadine, suncream, aftersun, anti-insect bite and
antibiotic creams; with just Surfskinoil.
And it smells fantastic too, those plant essences travel
straight up your olfactory nerves in your nose and directly into the limbic system of the brain,
calming, soothing and healing.
Since 2018 bottles of Surfskinoil are being bought up in Sri Lanka every day, often with people travelling 25 kms up the surf coast to get one!
In 2019 Surfskinoil reached the shores of Bali, Indonesia quickly gaining a cult reputation as THE surf trip travel medic, finally going into stores Indonesian wide including Billabong, Onboard and Boardriders stores as well as many awesome independent surf and dive shops in 2023.
Surfskinoil bridges the gap between nature and science, giving surfers a fast, convenient and on-the
spot, multi-faceted healing experience.
Not just that but our company ethics demand that we give something back to the local community in which we operate.
We have set up a charity project to support a village of Sri Lankan kids to receive tutoring to help
them win the jobs within the surf tourism industry that is growing at pace in their beautiful country.
These jobs are currently going to foreigners, but with our enhanced syllabus developed in
collaboration with the Sri Lankan Not-for-profit ‘Without borders’ and taught in our jungle classroom
running classes twice a week, these kids will get a fair chance!
We aim to change the corporate environment to show that companies have a responsibility to
support and protect the earth and communities that they affect.
Will you join us on our journey
towards what can be a peaceful and healthy planet for all?
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But first watch this short video about water men and women speaking on their experiences with Surfskinoil.