Where Somaé began
I couldn't bring the onsen home.
So I found the next best thing.
The ofuro is the Japanese domestic bath — deeper, hotter, and treated with a different intention. You wash before it. Then you lower yourself in and stay.
I stepped into an onsen and understood immediately. The water was doing something — or allowing something. A quality of stillness I hadn't found in a bathroom before.
I wanted to bring that home. The onsen itself couldn't travel. The practice could.
I found a manufacturer in Japan who understood what I was trying to do. Magnesium sulfate — the closest available mineral to what the body encounters in a thermal bath. Bentonite clay, jojoba, a sakura scent that is quiet rather than decorative.
Made in Japan. Brought home.
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The practice first
The philosophy came before the product. The mineral followed the intention.
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Made in Japan
Both products manufactured in Japan. The quality was the reason we went there.
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Two products
An Epsom Clay Soak and an Amino Acid Body Wash. No more, for now.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
The first time I stepped into a Japanese ofuro, I understood something I hadn't been able to name before. Not relaxation. Something closer to arrival.
I wanted to bring that home. I looked into taking onsen minerals out of Japan. I couldn't — and the more I understood, the more I realised that wasn't the point. The onsen is the practice. The water is what makes it possible to stay in it.
So I found a manufacturer in Japan who understood. Magnesium sulfate, held to a standard I could stand behind. Made in Japan. Brought home.
The practice was always the product. The ingredient was the conclusion.
Somaé · New York
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