About us
It was January 2001. Her passion for seaweeds finally took priority over everything else and Rosaria Piseri, an algologist of Italian origin, decided to follow her instincts, abandon her comfortable apartment in Milan, Italy, and move to an island that owes its whole history to seaweed: Inis Mòr, in the Aran Islands, County Galway. She wanted to learn more. She had obtained a Diploma in Natural Science from Milan University years before. The texts certainly could not compare with what she would learn starting on a little island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Ocean seemed like a splendid ‘Secret Treasure Chest’ to her, revealing its secrets more and more every day. She returned to Italy to look for economic aid to allow her to make extraction experiments on site so that there would not be too much time between collecting the various seaweeds and processing them. Extracting by boiling was not an acceptable system as too many of the beneficial properties would be lost. So she asked for the help of an old Chemical Engineer she had worked for years before. He directed her to one company after another but without success. After knocking on every door and when she had lost hope of getting help, a young businessman from Genoa contacted her and decided to donate a special machine that could perhaps be used for extraction using a cold system and without employing solvents. Rosaria returned to the island with her precious machine and began to carry out test after test, getting the results analysed and trying out the compounds on volunteers with skin problems. One of the most successful was the extract from a known anti-herpes seaweed which is still used today by hundreds of people in contact with Rosaria.
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