About Whole World Botanicals

Introducing the absolute best, natural, medicinal products from one of the most biodiverse environments in the world – Peru.

Whole World Botanicals was founded with a vision of helping ordinary people assume more responsibility for their health by extending their healthy eating to include dietary supplements which could transform their quality of life. We carefully selected certified organic, sustainably wildcrafted, therapeutic botanicals from the Peruvian rainforest and the Andes mountains, the reservoir of some of the most effective natural remedies on the planet. We turn them into potent powder concentrates, liquid and dry extracts, teas and specialty products.

WHO WE ARE

We are an anthropologist and a midwife who teamed up to bring novel, powerful plant allies for health from South America, where we both have roots. Our vision is to change the paradigm of the health care system to one where we reach for safe and effective botanicals to correct the imbalances of our diet and to strengthen the weakest structures and functions of our bodies. This vision of human health does not reject pharmaceuticals— it just seeks to strengthen the foundations of our good health through natural means — food, medicinal herbs, exercise, massage, acupuncture and an uplifted mind.

OUR COMPANY

Supports diversity
Practices fair trade
Promotes a revolution of natural self-care
Supports integrative medicine
Promotes the well-being of our growers, collectors, and harvesters through our active Social Mission projects

A COMPANY OF FIRSTS

First to bring Maca root, Camu-Camu, and Desmodium adscendens to the United States
One of the first to bring Cat’s Claw and Chanca Piedra to the United States
First to offer Maca root for women’s hormone balancing – not just for male sexuality
First company to sponsor publication of scientific information on the use of Maca root for hormone balancing: Townsend Journal for Doctors, Nov. 1998
First company in the world to get organic certification for its Maca – 2000
First company to bring gelatinized Maca to the U.S. market – 2004

FOUNDED BY SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

Whole World Botanicals was founded by three social entrepreneurs – an American anthropologist, a Peruvian midwife, and a distinguished botanist. Their goal was to do good for all of the Company’s stakeholders, which include the Peruvian Maca farmers, the rainforest botanical collectors and growers, customers and employees. For over 20 years, their vision has continued to unfold and bring benefit to thousands of people.

A UNIQUE HERBAL PRODUCTS COMPANY

Whole World Botanicals is a nearly unique herbal products company because we have made personal relationships with our herbal growers and collectors and carry out an active social mission with them. In fact, our products are known as Single-source Indigenous^TM.

Over the years our projects have included the following:

Since 1996 Whole World Botanicals has helped eliminate extreme poverty in the most disparaged Peruvian communities.
Distribution of 1000 notebooks and 2000 pencils to the settlements along the Curaray River for children to use in school.
Initiated a pilot Solar Energy Project with Maca-growing communities to demonstrate solar cookers and provide workshops on building a solar space to heat their homes.
Currently partnering non-profit Water with Blessings to help Camu-Camu collectors secure clean water for their families. We also worked with this organization to provide water filters to hundreds of families in Puerto Rico after a hurricane left thousands of people without clean water sources.

Read more about our Social Mission projects…