Our Story
Creating formulas inspired by the beauty of our surroundings – Made in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.
We are a Canadian based company with our head office located in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Our focus is on the development of high quality natural skin care products that support skin health & vitality while promoting well-being.
The Beauty Through Balance spa line created by founder Sherina Jamal, is one that reflects the company’s vision to create products go beyond topical care and work on a therapeutic & holistic level. Formulas are sophisticated and developed with a scientific approach to ensure quality at every stage of R&D and manufacturing.
The very first formulas developed by Sherina were created based on her extensive research of our own local Pacific Seaweed & Canadian Glacial Clay from the Northern Coast of British Columbia Canada. Due to the profound healing benefits these indigenous ingredients provided when applied topically, Sherina incorporated them into sophisticated formulations to create some of the very first authentic Canadian Thalassotherapy (healing from raw ocean elements) spa treatments and home care
All products are manufactured in our licensed production facility where strict quality control and quality assurance guidelines are followed. Providing clean, safe and effective products is our mandate.
Meet Sherina
Sherina Jamal is the CEO and founder of Ancient Secrets Inc. She is an established product developer and educator in the areas of natural skin care. From a young age Sherina was exposed to the amazing healing power of nature through the herbal remedies used by her grandmother and mother to treat illness, ailments and to keep skin looking youthful. Her belief and passion for natural ingredient and skin care lead her to the development of Beauty Through Balance which can be found at top spas and resorts.
Her education includes biological science at the university level and courses in aromatherapy, herbology, and Ayurveda. Sherina also spent a number of years working in a cosmetic laboratory environment learning first hand from top cosmetic chemists in the industry.
For the past 20 years, Sherina has shared her knowledge on all aspects of therapeutic skin care at various health, esthetic schools, wellness and spa conferences. Her articles have been published in top health, spa and beauty magazines and she continues to offer her informative seminars to both the public and spa industry professionals. Sherina is also actively involved in providing advanced product training on her line at top spas on a regular basis. She strongly believes in the importance of giving back to the community and is dedicated to protecting the environment taking strides to ensure that the company follows specific guidelines and policies to continue these efforts.
“In creating this company and becoming a product developer over 20 years ago, I took inspiration from my East African/Indian heritage, my educational background in biological science and my belief in the unlimited healing benefits that Mother Nature has provided us."
"My focus has always been to create products which offer a therapeutic level of care using carefully selected ingredients which are holistic in nature and I could capture in a bioavailable form for maximum results. I am humbled by the regular messages I receive on how our products have helped people in so many ways and this gives me the drive to continue to do what I do.”
Sustainable & Ethical Harvesting
We put passion and pride into sourcing, harvesting & processing of nature’s healing resources from the sea and the earth without negatively impacting the environment. Our collaboration and partnerships with experienced harvesters and use of specialized methods not only provides a pure ingredient for maximum benefits, but ensures that all steps are handled with social and environmental responsibility.
We are proud to bring you products that provide sophisticated skin care solutions and also play a direct role in protecting our precious earth.
Harvesting of our most precious ingredients -
Our Macrocystis Integrifolia Pacific Seaweed (Large brown kelp) is harvested by hand from remote areas of the Northern Coast and all harvesting is 100% sustainable. What makes harvesting our kelp so sustainable is that it is one of the fastest growing kelp plants in the world as such, after extracting the plant(5 to 7 feet), the extracted portion grows back within 3-5 days so there is no disruption to the local ecosystem and marine life. Other types of seaweeds once picked can take months or longer to grow back. Our licensed harvesting partners are environmentalists and harvesting helps to support the interests of Indigenous peoples that own the land. We are one of the only skin care companies that incorporate wild seaweed in a raw live form that retains all of its nutritional value in a form bio-available to the skin using a patented process.
The ocean beds where the seaweed is harvested are located in very pristine areas of BC’s Northern Coast and no shipping channels are allowed keeping the waters and surrounding area clean and safe.
Our other active ingredients including raw organic Acai Berry, Canadian Glacial Clay, Canadian Sea Salts, and many others are also harvested using strict guidelines to ensure protection of the local indigenous environment and to retain the purity of the original source.
Research & Development
We are dedicated to science, research and maintaining the highest standards when it comes to product development. This is our priority. The industry is saturated with product lines that make false claims and take short cuts, so we take great pride in developing products made ethically and authentically. Our mandate is to develop products that are safe and offer superior performance.
Through innovative cutting edge methods, we ensure that the integrity and naturally occurring composition of the raw ingredients used in our formulas are not altered in any way through harvesting or processing so that maximum benefits can be seen. Each specific key active ingredient in our products including the Canadian Glacial Clay, Acai Berries, Seaweed, Anti-oxidants, Anti-aging actives etc. have undergone various clinical trials and studies to validate their benefits. All of our formulas are manufactured in a proper licensed and certified facility where strict protocols are followed in the areas of production, quality control and quality assurance.