Sḵwálwen (skwall - win) is an Indigenous business creating small batch botanical skin care products by Styawat, from the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) First Nation. Styawat, also known as Leigh Joseph, is a ethnobotanist, researcher and community activist, who aims to contribute to cultural knowledge renewal in connection to Indigenous plant foods and medicines. Honouring traditional Skwxwú7mesh plant knowledge, Sḵwálwen incorporates wild harvested plants and organic, high quality ingredients. Wild plant ingredients are harvested in a sustainable and respectful way and each product has a Squamish name to honour the place where this plant knowledge comes from.
PÁ7PAWTN (pa-pow-tin) translates to “plant that relieves sore muscles.”
This powerful muscle salve is made with oils of nettle and arnica ~ natural anti-inflammatories that help reduce pain. Sore muscles are given deep relief, along with a soothing tingly sensation created from peppermint essential oil. A healing, restorative treatment.
Ingredients: Organic Olive Oil, Arnica Montana (Arnica) oil, Urtica dioica (Nettle) oil, Cera alba (Beeswax), Tocoperol (Vitamin E), Cocos Nucifera (Virgin Coconut) Oil, Essential Oils of Mentha piperita (Peppermint) Oil
Instructions: Gently massage onto sore muscles, bruises or other aches and pains.
60ml / 2oz