New clinical results and a new look

Plus: the farmer behind the formula

Big Kelp Hydration

Big time results call for big time change. We just completed a clinical trial that proved what we already knew to be true: our ingredient packs a powerful punch, delivering huge hydration without the carbon. So we’re taking a page out of our own book and glowing up — Hydrating Marine Polysaccharides is now Big Kelp Hydration. 

Big Kelp Hydration is still the same ingredient you know and love, but now with even more street cred. In our most recent in-vivo clinical trial, we tested it against a placebo and found that it hydrated skin 80% better. But Big Kelp Hydration isn’t just a moisturizing hero: the study also showed immediate improvement in skin barrier protection and skin luminosity. These numbers build upon our past research, where we first saw positive clinical results, and helped us get re-inspired about our core mission. 

Big Kelp Energy

We founded Macro Oceans to build a kelp economy for a low carbon future. Now, we’re making our message even bigger — Big Kelp Energy. Big Kelp Energy is about doing big things with kelp: combining best-in-class performance, with real sustainability, and inviting you, our partners, along for the ride.   

To say we’re obsessed with having a positive impact on the beauty industry would be an understatement: as it is now, the planet’s supply chain isn’t working, and the threat of the climate crisis demands that we think differently. Big Kelp Energy is helping us do just that: reimagining the future as one not defined by crisis, but by resilience and innovation.   

The farmer behind the formula

Meet Alf Pryor and Lexa Meyer, of Alaska Ocean Farms. Macro Oceans is proud to put the names of the farms we work with on the bottles of our high performance product.

This level of traceability is one of the things that makes Macro Oceans unique — just this month, Beauty Matter and Cosmetics Design ran a story about the level of transparency our product brings — but we think it’s the right thing to do. Consumers and beauty companies should know where the products they’re purchasing come from; to us it seems obvious.

We sat down to talk with them about how our seaweed is farmed and what the life of a seaweed farmer is like. Take a look and learn about two of the farmers behind the formula!