Quality Assurance & Control

Kosher (Kashrus) Certified

 
Scroll K is an Orthodox Union Recognized Affilate

Cedar Bear Naturales® was the first liquid herbal products company in the dietary supplements industry to be Kosher certified. All Cedar Bear® products are Kosher Certified! Cedar Bear® is also OU-approved for Passover production for its Scroll K Kosher-certified products.

Halal Certified        

 

Cedar Bear Naturales® is the first, and currently the only liquid herbal products company in the dietary supplements industry to be Halal certified. All Cedar Bear® products are Halal Certified! Our ISA (Islamic Services of America) Halal certification is internationally recognized.

Vegan Certified

 

Cedar Bear® vegan certification is from one of the most stringent vegan certifiers in the industry.

We've been doing totally ALCOHOL-FREE longer than anyone else in the industry, therefore we know more and are the most experienced in the liquid herbal products industry at doing alcohol-free. •  Alcohol's denaturing and rendering inert many herbal constituents and components can negatively impact the efficacy potential of an herb. 'Denatured' is defined as: Take away or alter the natural qualities of.; Alter or destroy characteristic properties by disrupting molecular confirmation." We're talking basic chemistry here. No alcohol is ever used at any time in making a Cedar Bear® product – NONE! 

Clinically Tested Ingredients

Though we cannot make any specific medical claims for our products or the ingredients used in those products, we can say that many of the herbal ingredients used in Cedar Bear® products have been subjected to clinical tests to ascertain their effects, the effect(s) causing constituents, levels of effectiveness (if any), and safety issues that may be relevant to our industry. The herbal products industry at large has been subjected to ongoing constituent-based studies, and clinical-based testing of ingredients for decades, and over the past decade and a half, research-based clinical testing has increased substantially.

     Versus    
WHOLE                             FRACTION

No one would call the isolates of ß Carotine or Vitamin A derived from a carrot a vegetable or carrot. That would be absurd. So it is with herbs. A single constituent or single group of constituents taken from an herb, like taking a puzzle piece from a whole puzzle, does not mean those fractionate-isolate components are that herb, or even an 'herb' anymore. This truism is a scientific and chemical fact! Cedar Bear® 'Genuine TincTract® Made' herbal concentrates contain the broad spectrum of an herb's constituents, like a whole puzzle, thus retaining the constituents ratio-intact integrity that, in turn, preserves the intrinsic synergies of the whole herb.

 
Cedar Bear® botanical blends are formulated utilizing a 'Multiplex' approach unique to the company and our founder, L. Carl Robinson, TT, CCHt, RH(AHG). It's another part of our 'Liquid Herbs Reinvented!™' It is a highly differentiated approach specific to TincTract® made totally alcohol-free liquid herbs, based on over five decades of primary and ancillary studies, including allied scientific disciplines, and over four decades of clinical herbalism, CAM practitioning, and process-related fluid chemistry extractive potentials for varying botanicals. Multiplex formulating utilizes multiple inputs and considerations to formulating herbal blends. It is one of the most diverse and comprehensive approaches to formulating complex liquid botanical blends, and results in the world's most differentiated, efficacious, and good tasting formulary-based liquid botanical blends available.

Ethically Wildcrafted Ingredients

 

Cedar Bear® prefers using ethically wildcrafted botanicals that meet good preparation and packaging standards because they grow in wild unimpinged chemically-free naturally enriched soil growing conditions that are more natural and biologically viable then even organic certified botanicals are (though we also use organic certified ingredients). We request that our botanical vendors first provide verified ethically wildcrafted herbs when available.

Also Using Organic Ingredients

 

Cedar Bear® uses organic certified botanicals if ethically wildcrafted or natural wild-cultivars are not available. From there chemical-free 'naturally-grown,' and verified chemically-free cultivar herbal ingredients are used. We use only all-natural ingredients in Cedar Bear® products.

Cedar Bear® only sources botanical-sourced ingredients that are GMO-Free and are all-natural and grown naturally.

USP-Grade Halal & Kosher Certified Vegetable Glycerin

 

Cedar Bear Naturales® supports sustainable palm growers. Glycerin is derived from fats and heavy fixed oils by separating the glycerin from the fatty acids via a process known as fractionation, resulting in food oils and glycerin. Cedar Bear® uses USP Grade, non-GMO, Kosher, and Halal-certified Vegetable glycerin. 

We do not add preservatives to our herbal glycerite concentrates like some other companies do to their herbal glycerite products. The combination of the 'Genuine TincTract® Made' process and higher percentage of glycerin-to-water used in making our products has never required the use of preservatives.

Cedar Bear® brand liquid herbal glycerites and glycerite of nascent iodine products do not contain any additional additives. This includes flavorings, colorings, thickeners, additional sweeteners (due to using glycerin, our products already possess a sweet background), and emulsions (none needed as our TincTract® process combined with using glycerin maintains colloidal suspension of components). Only herbs, glycerin, and water that are subjected to the TincTract® process are contained in our totally alcohol-free liquid herbal products.

It's very difficult to placebo effect a child. A tested product either works or it doesn't! Cedar Bear® Children's formula products were the first of their kind in the industry and marketplace, by almost three years ahead of the competition, and continue to be at the forefront. Potent, effective, and great tasting, they have no equal. Moms approve of our formula products for kids because they are safe, effective, and taste good. Taste is the most essential thing to getting a child to take liquid herbs, and Moms are elated that our 'true' alcohol-free liquid herbs meet all the desires and herbal needs they have for their kids. That's why Cedar Bear® Children's herbal formulas are both kid and mom approved!

Pet Approved    

 

Pets are great subjects for determining whether something works or not, because a pet cannot be placebo effected – the product either works or it doesn't. Cedar Bear® Pet formulas were the first of their kind in the industry and marketplace, and over the many decades have stayed at the forefront and been proven effective in both domestic and veterinarian use. Like our Kids formulas, the effectiveness of our Pet formula products are a further testament to Cedar Bear®'s multiplex formulating approach and quality standards.

Fair Trade Oriented

 

Cedar Bear® supports fair trade principles and practices. We requests our ingredient vendors to provide fair trade ingredients when available. The herbal products industry requires botanical ingredients from around the world, many provided by small share wildcrafters and growers. Being fair with these hard working individuals is an important part of the ethical integrity that our herbal industry should convey and support.

Gluten-Free!

Cedar Bear® manufactured products contain no gluten-containing ingredients. Only herbs, vegetable glycerin, and purified water are used in making our liquid herbal products, utilizing the revolutionary and proprietary 'Genuine TincTract® Made' process. The same applies to our Pureodine™ processed products. We are also Soy-Free and Sesame-Free.

The 'Anchor' symbol represents 'STABILITY' in commerce and the business world. All Cedar Bear Naturales® finished products are 3rd party lab-verified for safety and stability. Based on 3rd party lab testing, Cedar Bear® products are the most shelf-stable liquid herbal products available possessing a lab-verified 6 year expiry date. No REDOX, particulating, flaking, inverting, or degrading of the products, indicative of the high quality and astounding stability that the TincTract® and Pureodine™ processes impart to a finished product. Cedar Bear® products are of such high quality and aseptic stability that they don't require refrigeration after opening. Just close the bottle back up until subsequent use.

FDA Label Compliant

Cedar Bear Naturales® does not to take the FDA exemptions allowed for product labeling, but instead has chosen to provide consumers with product labels that are compliant as detailed in FDA rules & regulations on the issue. For us, being non-exempt-based label-compliant means the consumer comes first!

An ECO-FRIENDLY Endeavor

Eco-Friendly also means being 'Earth-Friendly.' Ecological awareness is a fundamental quality standard for Cedar Bear®. We are sensitive to the impact that a manufacturing endeavor can have on the ecology of the environment. Cedar Bear® has a low and sustainable 'Erg index' that is very eco-friendly.

Being Carbon Neutral

 

Cedar Bear® is 'carbon-neutral' on numerous fronts. We utilize hydropower source electricity or clean natural gas that leaves little to no carbon footprint on the environment. We also do not ash our spent herbal marc that results in adding to the carbon footprint, or have the spent marc sent to a landfill where it becomes part of atmospheric methane loading, that also adds to the carbon footprint of the atmosphere and environment. Instead, we repurpose our spent herbal marc for inclusion in our gardens farm composting endeavor, thus adding to the the stored carbon bank of the soils. Being as carbon-neutral as possible is something we pay close attention to and accommodate as best as possible

A Zero Waste Company

 

Cedar Bear® believes and lives by the four Rs of Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle. Because of our highly efficient 'serialized' TincTract® process less herb material is used, thus meeting the 'Reduce' principle. Many items we receive containing ingredients and supplies are thoroughly cleaned and sanitized and used for outgoing needs, thus meeting the 'Reuse' principle. Numerous one-time-use items recieved are in turn used for other purposes, thus meeting the 'Repurpose' principle. And where possible we send things that can't be repurposed or are worn to non-use for recycling. Zero waste is not only good for the environment, but is good for Cedar Bear® as it saves money, saves unnecessary waste buildup, and allows us to do neat stuff that otherwise would not be possible with repurposed items.

Additional In-House Quality Standards

Cedar Bear® also incorporates additional in-house quality oversight into our operations and handling of its products, such as: additional facility standards; site and data server security; perpetual inventory control; audits that include rigorous raw inventory, processed bulk herbs, and finished products cycling to assure all levels of inventory move in a FIFO fashion; and, expanded personal hygiene clean room standards that often exceed those done in our industry at large.

The TincTract® Process

Our innovative flagship technology is more than a TINCture, more than an exTRACT – it's a TincTract®. It's a proprietary QA/QC-driven, manufacture-standardized, synchronous, serialized fluid manufacturing technology that was the first ever of its kind in the industry and is still unique and proprietary to Cedar Bear®. The products potency and efficacy are astounding, and the quality is so high that the products are stamped with an independent 3rd party lab verified expiry date that is the longest in the industry for a liquid herbal product. And, 'Genuine TincTract® Made' products taste remarkably good!

The innovative Pureodine™ process is another of Cedar Bear Naturales®' exacting QA/QC-driven, totally alcohol-free, manufacture-standardized, proprietary processing technology, that utilizes our trade secret transformative IHMVAS (Integrated Hydro Molecular Vortex Agitation System) technology that results in lab-grade glycerite of mono-element triiodide of fixed iodine (also called 'Nascent' iodine). It is also used to make our highly caged zeolites matrix mineral products. The alcohol-free Pureodine™ process is another 'industry-first' by Cedar Bear®, resulting in remarkably stable products unlike any others of their kind in the marketplace. 

Manufactured in the USA Products

All products offered by Cedar Bear Naturales® are manufactured in the USA at our Roosevelt, UTAH manufacturing facility & operations from herbs and materials sourced domestically and from around the world. Cedar Bear® is the manufacturer of its products from top to bottom. Our unique and proprietary manufacturing technologies originated here in the USA, and as a legacy-based company, we have chosen to keep them here.

Been Doing It Since 1982

Cedar Bear Naturales® founder, L. Carl Robinson, TT, CCHt, RH(AHG), first conceived and developed our flagship totally alcohol-free serialized processing technology, the TincTract® process, in 1982. That pedigree has continued with Cedar Bear® through the proprietary generational enhancements and improvement to the TincTract® process, now in its current 12th generation iteration. That means we have been doing totally alcohol-free longer than anyone else, and therefore, know more and are more experienced in this highly specialized segment of the herbal products industry than anyone else, and it reflects in the outstanding uniqueness and quality of our products.