SPARK Competition winner: Maskwiomin - birch bark oil soap - a podcast by CBC Radio

Rooted in traditional knowledge. We check in with another of the SPARK competition for innovation winners.
Tuma Young is an Assistant Professor of Mi'kmaw Studies at CBU. He's also a lawyer and an ethnobotanist. Matthias Bierenstiel teaches Chemistry at CBU. They are co-founders of a company that plans to manufacture soap made from birch bark oil... "maskwiomin".

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