Park City entrepreneur launches ancient spagyric alchemy business

Owen Weinman's Zep Tepi Solutions brings 500-year-old alchemical tradition to the online marketplace.

Published on Feb. 12, 2026

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Park City resident Owen Weinman has channeled his years of dedicated study, hands-on laboratory work, and apprenticeship under a leading alchemist into launching Zep Tepi Solutions, an online apothecary offering handcrafted spagyric tinctures rooted in the ancient alchemical tradition traced back to ancient Egypt.

Why it matters

Spagyrics, the healing and medicinal branch of laboratory alchemy, is gaining renewed interest as an alternative approach to herbal medicine that proponents claim is more potent and bioavailable than standard tinctures. Weinman's business brings this ancient practice into the modern online marketplace.

The details

Weinman describes spagyrics as the process of breaking down plants into their component parts - the sulfur (medicinal properties), mercury (vital force), and salt (physical body) - and then reassembling them into a more potent whole. This involves incinerating and calcining the plant material to extract an alkaline salt, which is then added back into the tincture. Weinman claims this 'catalyzes an esterification reaction' that makes the medicine more bioavailable.

  • Weinman spent a month in Egypt in 2017, which sparked his interest in the ancient alchemical tradition.
  • Weinman launched Zep Tepi Solutions' website in late 2024.

The players

Owen Weinman

A Park City resident who has channeled his years of study, laboratory work, and apprenticeship into launching the online spagyric apothecary Zep Tepi Solutions.

Robert Allen Bartlett

A lifelong alchemist and educator who taught Weinman hands-on courses in herbal, mineral, and metallic alchemy.

Phoenix Aurelius

An alchemist who hired Weinman as director of laboratory operations at a spagyric laboratory in Ogden, where Weinman worked for two years.

Lisa Needham

Weinman's mother, who owned the Park City Yoga Studio.

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What they’re saying

“That has always been my Mecca. It's just always felt like a really strong spiritual place to me.”

— Owen Weinman (townlift.com)

“You take the plant material itself, once you're done, and you incinerate and calcine it to a white ash. Then you extract this ash and create an alkaline salt — the body of the plant itself — and add it back into the tincture.”

— Owen Weinman (townlift.com)

“Most doses for spagyric tinctures are just several drops. They're much, much more potent.”

— Owen Weinman (townlift.com)

What’s next

Weinman says his long-term vision includes a physical healing arts center where practitioners of multiple modalities could work under one roof.

The takeaway

Zep Tepi Solutions brings a 500-year-old alchemical tradition into the modern online marketplace, offering handcrafted spagyric tinctures that proponents claim are more potent and bioavailable than standard herbal extracts.