# Scio Nature ## Facts | | | |---|---| | Origin | Germany | | Headquarters | Fischbachau | | Owner | Herbaria Kräuterparadies GmbH | | Status | Dormant | | Manufacturing | Germany | | Distribution | Multi-channel | | Website | https://herbaria.com/ | Scio Nature, branded on its own packaging simply as Scio, is a German line of ointments and bath products built around black peat from the Bad Aibling moor. Its product material was published by Herbaria Kräuterparadies GmbH from an address in Fischbachau [5], and the range paired moor peat with traditional medicinal plants such as devil's claw, arnica and frankincense. No founding year or founders have been made public. The brand is dormant. Its website no longer resolves, retailers that once carried the line now mark its products as no longer sold [9], and its owner's current website presents only spices, tea, coffee and elixirs. No formal discontinuation has been announced. ## Ownership The Scio product leaflet names Herbaria Kräuterparadies GmbH as its publisher, printed alongside the scio-nature.de web address [5]. Herbaria is a far older business than the Scio line suggests. According to its own company history, it was founded in 1919 by Karl Halter as a tea and medicinal-herb maker, and in the late 1970s it was acquired by Otto Greither, owner and managing director of Salus [2]. Herbaria now describes itself mainly as a producer of organic spices, tea and coffee, and its website does not mention Scio at all. The picture is not entirely uniform. The product database Codecheck lists a Scio peat bath under the brand name "Herbaria" but names Alpenländisches Kräuterhaus GmbH & Co. KG as its manufacturer [6]. The two entries need not contradict each other: one may identify the company that made the goods, the other the company that marketed them. Herbaria's history notes that its own production was moved to sister companies in Bruckmühl and Magstadt, but no public source spells out how Alpenländisches Kräuterhaus fits into that group. The company's location has shifted as well. Scio's leaflet gives Herbaria's address as Fischbachau, where the company had moved in the 2000s into a former cake factory. In 2025 Herbaria relocated its headquarters to Bruckmühl [2], by which point the Scio line appears to have been withdrawn. ## Philosophy & positioning The name comes from Latin. The leaflet glosses "Scio" as "I know", from the verb *scire*, and builds the brand's three stated values on it: knowledge, understanding and ability. Its tagline reads, in translation, "We know how nature serves health." Scio presented itself less as a cosmetics label than as what it called a "service provider for health and the environment". The company said its knowledge of phytotherapy, the use of plants as remedies, had gone into its formulas for decades, combining traditional European know-how about plants, herbs and minerals with experience drawn from other cultures. Its stated aim was to offer natural health products that could support people in many everyday situations. That positioning shaped where the products were sold. According to the leaflet, Scio ointments were available through specialist retailers or could be ordered at pharmacies using their German pharmacy reference numbers (PZN) [5]. ## Products & innovation Peat sat at the centre of the range. Scio's leaflet states that natural moor has been used medicinally for around 200 years and argues that the black peat of raised bogs, formed largely from decomposed plant matter, is more therapeutically effective than lighter white peat. The company described Bad Aibling's healing moor as balneologically tested (examined for use in therapeutic baths) and said it was used mainly as supportive treatment for rheumatic complaints, back and joint pain and muscle tension. It also credited the moor's components with antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects [5]. These are the company's own statements; no independent clinical evaluation of the products is documented. The core line consisted of four 50 ml ointments. A moor ointment for intensive massage combined peat with devil's claw, willow bark and arnica and was meant for tension in the shoulders and back. A version "for vital legs" used peat with horse chestnut, comfrey and calendula, while the joint ointment paired peat with frankincense (*Boswellia serrata*), almond oil and lavender oil. The fourth, a poplar ointment, mixed poplar bud extract with bisabolol and rosemary for sensitive, cracked or itchy skin, including after insect bites or sunburn. Alongside the ointments sat a one-litre Bad Aiblinger moor bath. Codecheck lists it as 70 percent bath peat from the Bad Aibling moor plus water and cellulose, and reports a composition analysis by the Research Institute for Balneology and Spa Science in Bad Elster that puts its mineral content at 9.02 percent [6]. The same database labels the bath as vegan. Scio said its products were made to the requirements of controlled natural cosmetics and were free of synthetic fragrances and dyes, mineral-oil derivatives and PEG compounds. The brand itself named no certifying body. The retailer Vitalabo described the range as controlled natural cosmetics "based on BDIH / Cosmos" [7], but no certification seal for Scio is documented. ## Sustainability Packaging formed part of Scio's environmental pitch. The company used aluminium tubes and tubes with an "Airfill" system, which it said let the contents be used up almost completely and drew no air back in when squeezed, keeping the product more stable than a jar would. It printed on FSC-Mix certified paper and said its products could be disposed of in full. The leaflet also addressed the peat itself. According to Scio, used bath peat was returned to nature and the mixed-in water filtered off, while the extraction areas around Bad Aibling had been undergoing renaturation for many years. The company added that birch and pine woods, heather and cotton grass return to these areas within a few years, and pointed to moors as stores of carbon. ## Current status Scio Nature is dormant. As of October 2026 the scio-nature.de domain printed on its leaflet no longer resolves. The retailer Ecco Verde lists Scio products as sold out with a notice that it no longer sells them [10], Vitalabo's Scio brand page states that the brand is no longer available [7], and listings at German online pharmacies have been removed. Herbaria's current website lists spices, tea, coffee and elixirs, with no mention of Scio or any peat products [1]. The most recent material from the brand itself is an undated product leaflet. No public statement confirming that the line has ended has been made, so this article treats the brand as dormant rather than defunct. ## Signature products {#belagg-products} - **Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe für die Gelenke (50 ml, PZN 9718182)** — Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe für die Gelenke enthält Torf, Weihrauch, Mandelöl und wohlriechendes Lavendelöl. — https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf - **Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe zur Intensiv-Massage (50 ml, PZN 6090607)** — Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe zur Intensiv-Massage mit Torf, Teufelskralle, Weidenrinde und Arnika zum Einmassieren bei Verspannungen im Schulter- und Rückenbereich und bei schwach durchbluteter Haut. — https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf - **Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe für vitale Beine (50 ml, PZN 6090613)** — Bad Aiblinger Moorsalbe für vitale Beine enthält Torf, Rosskastanie, Beinwell und Ringelblume. — https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf - **Pappelsalbe mit Bisabolol (50 ml, PZN 4998544)** — Pappelsalbe mit Bisabolol enthält Pappelknospenextrakt, Bisabolol und Rosmarin. — https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf - **Scio Bad Aiblinger Moorbad (1000 ml)** — Badetorf aus Bad Aiblinger Moor (70%) — https://www.codecheck.info/p/kosmetik/badezusaetze/badesalze/herbaria-scio-bad-aiblinger-moorbad-1000-ml-von-scio-bad-aiblinger.html ## Key ingredients {#belagg-ingredients} Bad Aiblinger Moor (black peat / Schwarztorf) · devil's claw (Teufelskralle) · willow bark (Weidenrinde) · arnica (Arnika) · frankincense (Weihrauch, Boswellia serrata) · horse chestnut (Rosskastanie) · comfrey (Beinwell) · poplar bud extract (Pappelknospenextrakt) Source: https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf ## Sources 1. (T1) https://herbaria.com/ 2. (T1) https://herbaria.com/pages/geschichte 5. (T2) https://www.medikamente-per-klick.de/images/products/medikamenteperklick/beipackzettel/09718182.pdf 6. (T4) https://www.codecheck.info/p/kosmetik/badezusaetze/badesalze/herbaria-scio-bad-aiblinger-moorbad-1000-ml-von-scio-bad-aiblinger.html 7. (T4) https://vitalabo.com/scio 9. (T4) https://www.ecco-verde.co.uk/scio/bad-aiblinger-moor-ointment-for-intensive-massage 10. (T4) https://www.ecco-verde.com/scio/moor-ointment-for-joints --- Glowpedia · · Published 2026-10-06 Please cite with a link to the article URL.