Kiara

About Kiara Naturals

Established in 2005, Kiara Naturals GmbH, produces high potency CBD formulations that support your everyday life. Their CBD oils and tinctures are bestselling, but they also produce CBD salves, creams, vapes, and capsules. Unlike many CBD brands, who extract CBD from the whole cannabis plant, Kiara extracts its CBD from the flowers of the cannabis plant. This ensures that the active ingredients and terpenes are in much higher quantities.

Oren Landa

The CEO and co-founder of Kiara, Oren Landa, is a trained naturopath, osteopath, and movement therapist. He began his career in private and public health, where he noticed that the natural processes in our bodies were utterly ignored. This motivated Oren to search for various ways to aid people and teach them about healthier and natural living. Oren deeply believes that understanding the different ways in which our bodies work is crucial to living healthier and fuller lives. Oren is a true believer in natural and holistic medicine.

Boaz “Bobo” Lehman

Boaz “Bobo” Lehman is the brand’s co-founder, head of research and product development, who embodies the vision of Kiara. Bobo is a clinical herbalist and wild man, a nature guide and foraging instructor who feels at home in the embrace of nature, especially under a blanket of stars on a moonless night or in a grassy valley wilderness.

His intense dedication and relationship with herbal medicine started in 2009 in the Himalayan mountains where he was mentored by local medicine men and women. After seeing the powerful nature of plants, Boaz travelled the world gathering a wealth of knowledge about the origins of plants and their practical uses from around the globe.

After training in a wide array of natural therapy methods, Boaz set out formulating remedies for therapists and patients alike. Strongly motivated by a belief in the value of connecting with and respecting nature, he crafted all his treatments by handpicking the required plants according to season, moon cycles, location, and local traditions. For Kiara, Boaz manufactures all his products with the attention to detail and the precision of a pharmacist, not to mention, the empathy and conscience of a shaman.

Kiara’s focus

Kiara processes only locally cultivated, naturally-grown, non-GMO, and pesticide-free cannabis that is supervised by a team of experts from seed to shelf. Kiara commonly grows its plants according to specific and rigid standards. They test the air, the soil, and the hemp plants on a regular basis to guarantee premium quality and purity of Kiara’s products. They solely use naturally occurring CBD extract from hemp plants, and deliver only safe and high quality products.

Kiara aims to satisfy the needs of the customers who prioritise pharmaceutical quality or emphasise spiritual work. The brand commonly gives attention and respect to spiritual and ritual work, as well as exact peer-tested science. While planting, harvesting, and processing, the brand follows rigid standards and tests, and thoroughly measures everything along the way. However, the team’s work is not complete until they perform the ceremonies and rituals needed to purify, clean, and solidify their intentions in real actions.

Which rituals do they use?

Kiara combines various traditions of the Native American red path (the right path of life), ancient European traditions, and the shamanic cultures of Mexico. Kiara incorporates traditional blessings and tools, including crystals and feathers. They believe it is essential that every individual involved in the formulation of the product leaves his or her bad experiences and energies off the production floor.

Once prepared, Kiara performs traditional rituals, praying that these products bring relief to consumers. They pray that the brand’s lotions really soothe the body, that the tinctures alleviate pain, and that the capsules make the mind more concentrated and sharper. From formulation to the final creation - they make sure their customers get the highest quality and purity possible. This is crucial to the brand’s mission and drives the majority of what makes Kiara CBD special, such as better wellness for the contemporary world, navigated by the wisdom of the elders and the Earth.

Such attention to detail coincides with the very core of the brand’s mission, which is to spread the word of beneficial plant medicine. Kiara wants people to be aware they can provide a healthy alternative to harmful substances and pharmaceuticals. Kiara’s dream is to someday see all consumers only take natural, pure, safe products without the need for artificial pills. These alternative medicines and herbs are also eco-friendlier, contributing towards the global goal of helping animals, plants and people live in harmony.

Inspired by tradition

Kiara considers pharmaceutical rigour to be only one part of the equation of making a product because the spirit that guides the manufacturing process is equally essential. Kiara incorporates various rituals and traditions from around the world from the moment the brand’s team plants the first seed to the moment they ship their final products. The company thoroughly cleanses, purifies and prays that their capsules, creams, and tinctures contribute to the holistic health and overall wellness of consumers.

Backed by research and officially approved

Kiara’s products are manufactured with research and profound time-proven ethnobotanical knowledge and significantly fueled by a dedication to Mother Earth as well as their customers. The brand’s manufacturing facility is approved by Phyto pharma GMP and the FDA for drug and food production.

Produced with respect

Kiara’s remedies are produced with respect to the body, the Earth, and the customer. Kiara uses only naturally grown, pesticide and herbicide-free cannabis, alongside other natural and responsibly-sourced herbs. The brand’s team cultivates, harvests, and extracts their hemp in Appenzellerland, Switzerland. They then prepare their formulas in a special GMP-certified, FDA-approved facility in the Swiss Alps, where the finished products are subjected to rigorous third-party testing, ensuring quality assurance as well as safety, potency, and consistency.

Guided by intention

Kiara concentrates on extensive professional experience in pharmaceutical practice and clinical herbalism to craft proprietary, genuine, and potent formulations that coincide with the unique healing properties of herbs as well as with the precise needs of their customers. Kiara does not intend to sell isolated molecules. Instead, they aim to promote balanced and healthy living.

Kiara’s care

For Kiara, it gives them immense purpose and satisfaction, when helping individuals to feel better. This is at the core of every product they create. Once a month, the company provides subsidised treatment to people who are in need of help but have limited capabilities or are lacking access. Kiara provides such patients with an opportunity to tell them more about their condition in as much detail as possible, especially the ones taking CBD on a regular basis.

Powered by community

The brand continually aims to create a community of individuals empowered by holistic education, transparent information, and healthy living. They are always ready to equip people with the knowledge and tools required to make informed, healthy decisions. They provide dedicated support and transparent product information, as well as an educational forum. The doors of the Kiara House are always open to anyone wishing to hear, see and learn more about herbal medicine.

Kiara welcomes everyone who wishes to join their global community of highly experienced osteopaths, natural therapists, clinical herbalists, and formulators dedicated to delivering professional, precise, and reliable information about CBD and natural herbs to those who seek it.

Cooperation with ambassadors

Kiara’s natural products are trusted and referred to by natural therapists around the globe. This is not surprising because they are usually from five to six times more potent than the vast majority of CBD oils currently on the market. Besides, the company produces everything according to strict GMP standards, which is commonly the highest level of production, ensuring pharma-grade accuracy in every single drop. Kiara offers cooperation to other natural therapists or individuals who want to extend the offerings of CBD to their loyal social media followers. To such ambassadors, Kiara offers 30% commission per customer referred, free product samples to try the brand’s remedies first hand, a 10% discount for the ambassador’s followers and friends, and finally, a 30% discount for the ambassador themselves.

Combining shamanism with modern pharmaceutics

In today’s world of unprecedented access to contemporary and traditional methods of healing and modern health services, health care professionals continue to take an old-fashioned approach towards treatment. Each doctor or healthcare provider concentrates on their particular area of expertise and directs their time, talents, and energy towards detecting and healing a narrow range of symptoms of what ails patients.

Holistic approach

In addition, Kiara believes that people have lost their close connection to the age-old spiritual practices that offered a holistic approach to health and wellness and always tried to identify how to cure both the person’s soul and body. In fact, holistic medicine looks at the entire patient, his soul, body, spirit, and mind instead of seeing them just as a sum of different parts. Holistic healing seeks a balance between all other systems of the body, including spiritual, physical, and emotional, with the full understanding that if one part is not working as it should, it can throw everything else out of equilibrium.

Although a holistic approach focuses on caring and love, nowadays, it is often met by a sceptical world that has associated time-honoured, traditional forms of spiritual treatments with shamanism. Kiara commonly utilises ethnobotanical knowledge, Western medicine, as well as a deep belief in holistic medicine. The brand combines years of deep experience in natural healing with high levels of close attention to people’s health and wellness. Kiara has worked with plant medicine for an extended period of time and has fantastic expertise in plants and herbs. They are aware that different plants deliver different benefits. For example, some plants offer healing for inflammatory conditions, others for pain, and some for mental and energetic spiritual issues.

Hemp and herbs

Kiara has had a long and productive journey, and maintains a way of life and wisdom, which was born at the junction of spirituality and shamanism. Kiara realised that the large pharmaceutical companies do not usually provide modern consumers with the only answer, and they do not offer real alternatives that are needed. Kiara is a company dedicated to the vital mission of delivering potent, safe, and premium quality products that have only natural and beneficial components created by nature. Their product range combines the therapeutic qualities of hemp with time-honoured natural healing remedies.

The brand’s formulation and extraction process integrate traditional extraction methods, such as maceration, percolation, chromatography, etc., along with state-of-the-art advanced technologies, including CO2 extraction and ultrasonic extraction methods. The brand also uses a few secret techniques which are developed specifically to create homogeneous and synergistic extraction of cannabis with other herbs.

Safety as the first priority

All of Kiara’s products are GMP-certified and contain only responsibly-sourced natural compounds. So, what is the big deal about GMP certification? Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) refers to a specific set of standards validated and enforced by the FDA or any other competent authority within the EU/EEA that guarantees manufacturers meet predefined criteria throughout their entire manufacturing and packaging operations. GMP protocols commonly intend to direct producers in various industries to a high standard of practice and consistency. This ensures not only the efficacy of the final product but also the overall safety for the workforce and consumers.

What is required to receive GMP certification?

To receive a GMP certification, producers must follow strict guidelines surrounding many aspects of their manufacturing process from start to finish. These instructions include, but are not limited to, parameters, such as the training of employees, the acquisition of raw material, consistent record-keeping, rigid quality control from start to finish, sanitation standards and processes, a batch recall process that is efficient and clear to all parties, and manufacturing process validation batch consistency.

Significantly, GMP certifications are usually required for manufacturing products, such as medical devices, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary and animal products, tobacco, dietary supplements, and some foods. However, CBD products is a newly growing sector that is only gradually starting to embrace the value of a GMP certification.

Why third-party-testing is not enough

Third-party testing is crucial to confirm what manufacturers say is included in the products that consumers purchase. The essential aspects, such as terpene profiles, purity, and cannabinoid levels can be specified to great precision through independent third-party testing. However, how can we tell that the product was produced with care from start to finish? There is no way to know, but GMP certification ensures that the product’s consistency, quality, and purity correspond to the highest level.

Just because the product label says CBD, it does not mean there is CBD inside the product. Large gaps can be frequently found in the regulation and standards of testing of CBD products. This is true in comparison to the predefined standards and rules surrounding beverages, foods, cosmetics, and other consumer products that people apply topically to the skin or ingest. However, CBD has little to no oversight, and there is still much misunderstanding as to what is safe and legal.

A study conducted by Marcel Bonn-Miller PhD, an adjunct assistant professor of Psychology and Psychiatry in Pennsylvania, found that only 30% of CBD items obtained online actually contained the CBD levels that were listed on the label of the product. Another study that thoroughly analyzed 84 products distributed by 31 CBD companies identified that 42% of CBD items contained more CBD than what was marked on the package, and 26% actually had less.

This discrepancy between the end product and the label still exists despite repeated warnings by regulating agencies to CBD companies. However, the lack of predefined standards in combination with the fact that independent third-party labs can set their own standards for quality of CBD production is a disaster waiting to happen for the CBD industry. This offers no value of either stability or safety for already confused consumers.

Kiara’s products are GMP-certified for human safety

Kiara has been developing and producing CBD and plant-based natural products since 2005. The company is headquartered in Appenzellerland, Switzerland, where they cultivate, harvest, extract, and craft the best quality plants they can get their hands on. In fact, Kiara was founded with an underlying goal of promoting premium-quality, potent, and safe CBD products, empowered and enhanced by the need for natural plant remedies. Kiara’s products are complex and rich, formulated to not only promote but also to complement the amazing qualities of hemp plants. By combining the latest cutting edge research, the power of plant-derived substances, and rich time-proven ethnobotanical knowledge, the brand can offer its customers consistently high-quality CBD items that will increase the quality of life.

Kiara CBD profoundly believes in the power of being honest and transparent in their manufacturing processes and quality standards. By maintaining their GMP certification, Kiara can guarantee that they are doing just that and provide CBD users with the best products possible. In addition, the brand focuses on the spirit of healers to create precise, potent, and proprietary plant formulations that increase and support everyday wellness while promoting long term health.

Kiara’s products are not only third-party lab tested for purity and potency, but they are also fully GMP-certified to guarantee that customers are getting only the highest quality products possible that are handled with safety and care in mind from start to finish. During the production of Kiara’s CBD products, every step of manufacturing is rigorously monitored, registered, screened, and supervised to ensure consumers get the best CBD products. All of Kiara’s CBD products are thoroughly lab tested before they leave the facility. This guarantees that customers get exactly what is marked on the product package. Furthermore, all lab results, reports, analyses, and certifications can be accessed online.