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My new signature soap, the sakura (cherry blossom) tree is deeply rooted in Japanese culture and celebrated around the world in annual festivals. The sakura tree blossoms once a year which lasts only a short few weeks; it is an omen of good fortune and is also an emblem of love.
Inspiration for this soap came from looking at the other sakura / cherry blossom products available on the market. I noticed that aside from the name, none of these products had anything to do with the actual sakura tree itself. In other words, I was being sold a lie. Determined to make a "real" sakura soap, I began by developing my own custom soap calculator to find a recipe that is perfectly balanced to the recommended standards for average skin.
Special ingredients include:
* Sakura leaves & flowers; I first create a sakura tea which is used as a water base for the soap, and then proceed to dry the flowers and leaves and mix them with the remaining ingredients. Considering that the essential oils of the sakura flower cannot be extracted with current technology (it just isn't worth the cost), only artificial fragrances exist. I chose not to add any fragrances to this soap, so this is as real as it gets!
* Japanese sea salt; obtained from a remote island off the coast of Japan far away from industrial contamination. This gourmet salt is extracted using a traditional and time-consuming method of filtering sea water with fire and bamboo.
* The finest grass fed beef tallow; Japan is serious about their livestock to produce very tender and succulent meats that melt in your mouth, such as kobe beef, shabu-shabu and yakiniku. Likewise, I use un-bleached rendered beef kidney suet, which is the best fat available.
Other ingredients include: Castor oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil, mango seed butter, goats milk, brown cane sugar, kaolin clay (rose), titanium dioxide, and sodium hydroxide for saponification.
My new signature soap, the sakura (cherry blossom) tree is deeply rooted in Japanese culture and celebrated around the world in annual festivals. The sakura tree blossoms once a year which lasts only a short few weeks; it is an omen of good fortune and is also an emblem of love.
Inspiration for this soap came from looking at the other sakura / cherry blossom products available on the market. I noticed that aside from the name, none of these products had anything to do with the actual sakura tree itself. In other words, I was being sold a lie. Determined to make a "real" sakura soap, I began by developing my own custom soap calculator to find a recipe that is perfectly balanced to the recommended standards for average skin.
Special ingredients include:
* Sakura leaves & flowers; I first create a sakura tea which is used as a water base for the soap, and then proceed to dry the flowers and leaves and mix them with the remaining ingredients. Considering that the essential oils of the sakura flower cannot be extracted with current technology (it just isn't worth the cost), only artificial fragrances exist. I chose not to add any fragrances to this soap, so this is as real as it gets!
* Japanese sea salt; obtained from a remote island off the coast of Japan far away from industrial contamination. This gourmet salt is extracted using a traditional and time-consuming method of filtering sea water with fire and bamboo.
* The finest grass fed beef tallow; Japan is serious about their livestock to produce very tender and succulent meats that melt in your mouth, such as kobe beef, shabu-shabu and yakiniku. Likewise, I use un-bleached rendered beef kidney suet, which is the best fat available.
Other ingredients include: Castor oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil, mango seed butter, goats milk, brown cane sugar, kaolin clay (rose), titanium dioxide, and sodium hydroxide for saponification.
