Blue Economy Intervention​
Plant Biodefenders is a company engaged in the production and supply of organic solutions for agriculture, human health, and environmental conservation.
Our current project focuses on seaweed-based cosmetic and health products, empowering women along the coast and promoting sustainable industrial development. By combining brown and red algae with active plant extracts, the project delivers innovative solutions for skin health, disease prevention, and mosquito repellency, integrating cosmetic, therapeutic, and protective benefits in one organic product.
1. The product (BioGel) is organic, well packed and attractive with multifunction which is competitive advantage in cosmetic industry. It saves cost as it works as body gel as well as skin protector against pathogens sun burn, also treat acne, rashes and keep the skin moist.
-Unlike other cosmetics (gel, lotion, body spays) Biogel has several functions, affordable, skin care, safe with several health benefits. It is also used by people of all ages from infants to adults; both men and women. It is for all people with normal and abnormal skins providing wide range of potential customers.
The Biogel is skin gel with organic compounds that possess antimicrobial activities for skin protection and treatment of fungal, viral and bacterial infection on skin. The gel is novel and safe as it is composed of bee wax, seaweed and plant extracts.
2. VB GEL People along the coasts suffer seriously from infectious diseases including Malaria, Chikungunya etc and also infectious skin disease. Treatment of these diseases is costly and unaffordable. The product is harnessing marine resources especially seaweeds for making mosquito repellent for social transformation of women along the coast and across the country. The product is novel and most demanded products that will increase the demand for seaweeds and create more employment to women, more earnings and improve livelihood through products
3. Seaweed Biofertilizer apparently agricultural runoff is the major pollutant along Indian ocean in Tanzania, affecting production of green algae which in turn cause damage and loss to other biodiversity including fish. The algal blooms resulting from rich minerals effluents and runoff could be utilized in marking biofertilizer to solve the problem in agriculture productivity. On the other hand, people along the cost especially women could be empowered to cultivate the algal which will be supplied in the industry for production of biofertilizer. This will lead to innovative products that will be used to solve agricultural challenge as well as source of income and employment to people living along the cost.