Utama Spice is a Balinese Company with a strong commitment to keeping the tradition of Balinese Herbal Medicine alive.

Information about Balinese healing Herbs has been mostly an oral tradition. For hundred of years, healers and herbalists passed down the information by word of the mouth to their children and students.
But in the last couple of generations there have been fewer and fewer young people interested in mastering this traditional body of knowledge. Most of our teachers were very old. Understanding of traditional plants is dying out, as the plants themselves are quickly vanishing from Bali in the face of uncontrolled development. There is a real danger that this wisdom will disappear if it is not recorded.

Utama Spice is a small sustainable trading company, established in 1997. We started as a micro family affair and have now grown to small limited company employing around 16 people.

We adhere to the famous Balinese cultural concept of TRI HITA KARANA, which commits us to respecting and working harmoniously with humanity, nature and the Divine. As a business, we have found a balance between generating an income from the herbs without damaging the environment in which they grow. No trees are cut in creating our products, which contain no harmful chemical additives.

We have done extensive research to support the local natural resource base and to enhance local farming skills in such areas as organic farming, bee farming and seaweed farming. These farming communities produce the raw materials for our company’s products.