One seed can change everything.

One spoon. One morning. That’s the whole routine.

Cold-pressed Ethiopian black seed oil pooling beside scattered Nigella sativa seeds on cream linen.

Halal certified Kosher certified Cold-pressed in California from imported Ethiopian seeds Independently lab-tested every batch First batch ships summer 2026

№ 001 Bale & Arsi · Ethiopia 2.4% active compound

Count the bottles in your bathroom. Most of them were invented after 1995.

There’s a quieter answer that pre-dates the aisle. One seed. One spoon. The supplement humans were taking before they had a word for "supplement."

Hold my bottle

What one spoon does before your day starts.

Cold-pressed Ethiopian black seed oil. Lab-tested every batch. What households across the Middle East and South Asia have kept on the kitchen shelf for three thousand years.

Halal · OU Kosher · Made in USA · Third-party tested

*These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

habb terracotta bottle on cream marble with warm shadow play in soft morning light

Black Seed Oil

100% Ethiopian seeds

Product Details

  • 100% Ethiopian Nigella sativa
  • Seeds from a certified sustainable grower in Ethiopia
  • Fresh crop (not older than 12 months)
  • One-time pressed seeds only
  • Cold pressed in California with a temperature held at ≤ 60 °C
  • Climate-controlled storage
  • Thymoquinone (TQ) level is up to 4.64% — driven by the specific elevation of the farms in Ethiopia and their proximity to the equator

Pause or cancel anytime · Ships this summer · Free shipping

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Founders’ Round pricing for the waitlist · 90 mornings to decide · No spam, ever

Current batch

Bale & Arsi cooperative · Harvest 2026

LotH-001
PressedCalifornia
ShipsSummer 2026

The origin

Day 75. One farm. Your counter.

Volcanic soil at 2,200 metres. Cold nights, intense sun, day-75 harvest. The plant has to work harder to grow there — and the harder it works, the more it puts into the seed.

Illustrated map of Ethiopia with the Bale and Arsi highlands glowing in terracotta — 2,200 to 2,800 metres
i · Harvest Day 75 — Bale & Arsi highlands, Ethiopia

Volcanic soil. Cold nights. Intense sun. The plant has to work harder to grow here — and the harder it works, the more it puts into the seed. Day 75 is the inflection point. Most farms harvest at day 60 for yield. We wait.

Cultivated rows of Nigella sativa flowering in highland fields with mountains and morning mist
ii · Soil Volcanic soil at 2,200 – 2,800 m

Same plant, different ground. Independent lab data shows highland Ethiopian seed runs roughly 4× higher in active compound than seed grown in lowland irrigated regions at the same lab method. The altitude, the minerals, the stress — it concentrates in the oil.

Macro close-up of dark volcanic soil with young Nigella sativa seedlings emerging in golden light
iii · Press Cold-pressed at ≤ 60 °C in California

No solvents. No heat-assisted yield extraction. Above 60°C the volatile compounds in the seed break down — so we accept less oil per pound and keep what's there. One ingredient enters; one ingredient leaves. Halal- and OU Kosher-certified facility.

Cold-press machine pouring Ethiopian black seed oil into a glass carafe at 58°C, terracotta bottles waiting to be filled
iv · Verify Lab card in every box — your batch's actual numbers

Every bottle ships with a card naming the lab method (HPLC-UV on the fixed oil), the active-compound percentage, and the fatty-acid profile for that specific lot. Not a brand average. Not a generic supplier certificate. The card matches the bottle.

habb · Per-batch lab card

MethodHPLC-UV · fixed oil
LotH-001
OriginBale & Arsi, ETH
Active cmpd≥ 2.0% (HPLC-UV)
Linoleic57 – 61%
Oleic20 – 21%

See the numbers yourself

v · Ritual Your counter — under 6 months from harvest

One seed. One spoon. One morning. The ritual your grandmother knew, delivered fresh — under six months from the day the plant was cut. That's the whole product.

A woman taking her morning teaspoon of habb black seed oil at the kitchen counter beside lemon water and figs

Volcanic soil. Cold nights. Day-75 harvest. Under six months, harvest to counter.

Why Ethiopian highland seed runs ~4× higher than other origins

What’s not in it

Everything we didn’t add.

One ingredient. Glass and ceramic. Cold-pressed in California. The whole product fits in one paragraph — and the only thing on the label is what’s actually inside.

× Fillers No flow agents, no carriers
× Plastic Glass bottle, ceramic spoon
× "Natural flavors" If we added it, we’d name it
× Synthetic dyes No FD&C colors, no titanium dioxide
× Proprietary blends One ingredient. Nothing to hide.
× Animal anything Halal- and OU Kosher-certified

Cheap seed oils are the most-faked ingredient on the supplement shelf. Our lab numbers ship in the box. If a brand won't show theirs, that's your answer.

Founders' bottle

$48 a month. Held for as long as you stay.

Founders’ Round pricing. The first batch is small. The price you reserve at is the price you keep — for as long as you stay subscribed.

  • 90-day guarantee — full refund, no email gauntlet
  • Shipping is on us
  • Cancel, skip, or pause any time
  • Lab card with your batch’s HPLC-UV number ships in the box
$48/mo $1.60 a day · less than your matcha

No spam, ever · One email when bottles ship

A morning at the counter — habb bottle next to dates and tea, soft natural light through the window

Pour. Sip. Forget the rest of the shelf.

A teaspoon, first thing. Peppery, warm, a little oniony at the back. The taste is the proof — that’s what cold-pressed oil from a single seed actually tastes like.

The ceramic spoon stays out on the counter. It earned the spot. The morning gets its two minutes back, just slower.

Why we’re slow

We make the world’s best black seed oil. We are not in a rush.

Operationalized, never performed.

Questions? Good. We like that.

When can I actually buy this?
A small first batch ships this summer. The waitlist is the only way to know the exact date — we send the launch email about a week before bottles go live. The first batch is capped, and waitlist gets first access.
What does the waitlist get me?
Three things. First access to the first batch (it’s capped). Founders’ Round pricing for the early bottles. And the launch email a full week before we tell anyone else. No spam, no daily nags — we’ll write when there’s something real to say.
What does it taste like?
Peppery. A little oniony, a little smoky, a little bitter. The first three days taste like the seed. By week two it tastes like your morning. Pair with warm water and honey if you want a softer landing — that’s how grandmothers drank it.
When will I notice anything?
Most people feel the morning ritual click in week one. The skin and energy stuff people talk about online tends to land somewhere between weeks four and eight, and varies by person. Subscribers get 90 days from delivery — long enough to see it. One-time orders get 30. Full refund either way, no return required.
Is it halal?
Yes. Single-ingredient cold-pressed black seed oil from a Halal- and OU Kosher-certified facility in California. There’s nothing else in the bottle to certify against.
What if I don’t like it?
Ninety mornings if you subscribed. Thirty if you ordered one-time. Empty the bottle, keep the bottle, gift the bottle — no return required. Full refund, no restocking fee, no email gauntlet.
What makes this different from the $14 Amazon bottle?
Two things. One: ours is tested. Theirs isn't. Independent labs found 1 in 3 black seed oils don't contain what they claim. We print our lab numbers on a card in every box. Two: ours is glass. Theirs is plastic. Plastic leaches into oil over time, especially in heat. Your cabinet gets warm. That's the difference between $14 and $55. The $14 saves you $41. The question is what you saved it on.
Why $55?
Single-origin Ethiopian seeds, cold-pressing instead of high-yield extraction, third-party lab testing on every batch, a real ceramic spoon, glass instead of plastic. The math works backwards from doing it right, not down to a price point. Subscribers pay $48.

Your first 90 days

It doesn't all happen in week one. Most of it lands by week eight.

Black seed oil isn't a switch. It's a build. Here's what most women tell us they notice — and roughly when.

Week 1

The ritual clicks.

The teaspoon stops being a thing you have to remember. The taste — peppery, a little sharp — starts to feel like the start of the day.

Week 2

Digestion gets quieter.

The bloat that used to sit there after lunch starts to chill. Mornings feel less heavy. Nothing dramatic — just calmer.

Week 4

Skin starts to settle.

Texture smooths. The redness that flares after a stressful week takes longer to show up. Other people tend to notice before you do.

Week 8

Energy at its baseline.

The 3pm dip is shorter. The second coffee stops being automatic. It isn't a buzz — it's the absence of the slump.

Month 3

This is why we guarantee 90 days.

Most of what black seed oil does, it does on a slow build. Three months in, the picture is clear. If it isn't, we refund it.

Day 14 is too early. Day 30 is still early. Ninety days is the honest window. Cancel any time before then — full refund, no email gauntlet, keep the bottle.

The standard

1 in 3 black seed oils lie. Here’s how ours doesn’t.

Six rows you can check yourself. See methodology →

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Why it matters

Inside

Diluted.

One ingredient.

Cheap brands cut their oil with soybean or canola, mask the dilution with synthetic preservatives like TBHQ, sometimes leave hexane residue from extraction. You pay black-seed prices for filler. Ours is one ingredient.

Lab tested

Untested.

Every batch.

1 in 3 black seed oils don’t contain what they claim — cut with cheap oils, low in the active compound, or mislabeled origin. We test every batch with an independent lab and publish the result on the bottle.

Origin

"Premium."

Ethiopia.

Most black seed oil is bulk Egyptian or Turkish — pennies per kilo, harvested at industrial scale. Ethiopian costs several times more: volcanic soil, altitude, smaller harvests, higher active compound. We pay it.

Pressed

Unspecified.

Under 60°C.

Heat destroys what makes the oil work — the active compounds break down above 60°C, and most presses run hotter for yield. We hold ours below 60°C and publish the temperature on every batch card.

Bottle

Plastic.

Glass.

Oil sits in plastic for months on the way to you — warehouses, trucks, shelves — and microplastics leach in the whole time. Heat speeds it up. Glass doesn’t shed and doesn’t react with the oil.

Certified

Unverified.

Halal · Kosher.

An independent inspector walks the facility — Halal certification, OU Kosher, FDA-registered. Most cheap brands self-claim a logo and skip the audit. Ours is verified by people who showed up.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.