Our Story
Optimum wellness is inherent — under the right conditions.
How it began
Co2 Mushrooms started in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic.
Like a lot of people that year, I was paying closer attention than I had in a long time — to my body, to my immune system, to how fragile modern health had become, and how few real answers seemed to be on offer. I’d been working with medicinal mushrooms for myself and seeing the kind of subtle, compounding shifts you don’t get from a pill or a quick fix.
So I built a lab.
What began as personal practice turned into a small-batch operation, then a Johannesburg shop, then a growing range of formulations for people working on the deeper layer of their health. Five years in, we still hand-grow every mushroom we sell.
What we believe
We work from a simple premise: the body is designed to thrive. Given the right conditions — clean inputs, supportive nutrients, time, attention — it reaches for wellness on its own.
Our approach is holistic, metabolic, and preventative. We don’t look at symptoms in isolation. We look at the underlying conditions that allow the body to function the way it’s meant to, and we make formulations designed to support that work over time.
The science is catching up to what traditional medicine has known for thousands of years: mushrooms like Lion’s Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail and Chaga carry compounds that modulate immunity, support cognition, stabilise mood, and help protect against the slow erosion of modern living.
We grow them properly. We extract them properly. And we help our customers find the right one for what they’re actually working on.
Who we help
What started as a wellness brand has become something more layered.
Our customers include people supporting daily focus and energy, athletes optimising recovery, parents and shift workers shoring up their immunity, people in mid-life addressing brain fog and emotional baseline, and people facing more complex modern conditions — chronic inflammation, autoimmune challenges, mental wellness — who want to approach their health from a different angle alongside their existing care.
We don’t claim to replace medicine. We offer a complementary path, grounded in real cultivation, real research, and one-on-one conversation where it matters.
How we make our supplements
Every mushroom we sell is hand-grown in our own lab in South Africa, using cutting-edge cultivation techniques pioneered by mycologists like Paul Stamets.
We use both the fruiting body and the mycelial mass. We dual-extract for the compounds that actually do the work — beta-glucans, triterpenes, hericenones, ergothioneine. Our capsules are 100% plant-based, GMO-free, preservative-free, halal, kosher, vegan and biodegradable.
No imported powders. No white-label fillers. No shortcuts.
Three ways to start
1. Shop the range online. Browse by outcome — Focus, Energy, Calm, Immunity, Gut Health, Skin — or by mushroom if you already know what you’re looking for.
2. Visit our Johannesburg shop. Drop in to browse, pick up an order, or have a chat with the team.
📍 76 Marlborough Avenue, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2196
Located at Delta Park, in the same complex as Delta Café, right next door to Gerakaris Wines.
3. Book a 1:1 consultation with Sandra. If you’re not sure which mushroom is right for what you’re working on, Sandra will talk you through it — gently, properly, with no pressure to buy.
Shop the Range · Visit Us in Johannesburg · Book a Consultation with Sandra
— Sandra