Our story

The ethos of Guernsey Seaweed is to sustainably harvest seaweed by hand from the beaches of Guernsey and obtain pure, natural and minimally processed products.

Apart from driving our truck to and from the beach, everything is done by us and by hand and the process involves:

•  – Carefully hand cutting the seaweed species we require
•  – Picking up the rubbish on the beach as we go
•  – Transporting to our workshop to dry on racks and finishing in a dehydrator
•  – Shredding or powdering the seaweed ready to be used in all our products

After producing dried shredded seaweed for fertiliser for a couple of year, the business changed direction during the pandemic.  Guernsey couldn’t get hold of hand sanitiser and,  together with a local gin distiller, we used seaweed to create a gel to mix with ethanol to make a seaweed based hand sanitiser.

The positive feedback on this product and comments of the moisturising qualities lead us to making a serum and moisturiser using the same seaweed.  We have gone on to make seaweed based bath & shower products and currently supply 8 hotels and numerous restaurants and offices across Guernsey.