A revolutionary product developed by 30,00 years of experience from Mother Nature

Peat mud, also known as sphagnum, is a product rich in trace minerals as well as humic and fluvic acids that have unique tissue regeneration and conservation capacities.

In addition to the privation of oxygen to which mommies found in peat bogs were exposed, humic and fluvic acids and trace minerals helped conserve the famous 2,000 year-old mummy found in Tollund, which can be viewed at the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark. These elements also helped to conserve the man found in Graballe, another famous figure. The Tollund Man’s organs contained traces of the man’s last meal: barley gruel with about thirty types of wild grain.

The Peat Miracle

Peat bogs are humid zones of which the pH levels prevent the bacteria that cause decomposition from surviving. Result: organic matter is accumulated and turns into peat — a combustible fossil similar to coal.

The peat bogs in which corpses are found usually are at the last stage of their development. Sphagnum, the main type of vegetation in peat bogs, is an acidifying moss that accentuates the environments characteristics. The mummification process is the result of several factors: lack of oxygen that prevent decomposition, tannic acid that preserves the body’s external skin layers and a temperature bellow 4 °C that stops putrefaction.

Because of their properties, peat bogs a real gold mine for scientists.

Source: Sciences et Avenir - Sept 1997

At the end of the 1980s, National Geographic published an article on the mystery of peat bogs.

Its chemical components:

The constituents of Peat sphagnum are:

- carbon hydrates: hemicellulose and cellulose
- polyphenol: lignin, humic acids
- lipids: waxes, resins, steroids, terbanes

Composition of peat in % of organic matter:
Organic element
Sphagnum peat
Carbon
48 to 53
Hydrogen
5 to 6
Oxygen
40 to 46
Nitrogen 0,5 to 1
Sulfur 0,1 to 0,2

Physical Chemical Properties:

The pH level of peat is normally between 3.0 and 4,5. It is the carboxyl (-C00H) and hydroxyl (-OH) groups that are present in humic acid that are responsible for the acidity in peat.

Sphagnum peat has the capacity to retain water at 8 to 20 times its dry weight. Seventy percent is stored between its leaves, 20% between the hydrocytes and 10% in the canicules.

This capacity to retain water is an important point that is directly related to the percentage of water retained and its drying.