SPARK Competition winner: Maskwiomin - birch bark oil soap

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 4:10 a.m.

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".