Dead skin gets in the way.
Old skin sits on top of new skin. Wash straight over it and much of the persimmon never reaches you at all.
The sisal pouch lifts that layer while it lathers. The bar works on your skin, not on what is covering it.
And when the bar wears down to a sliver, it stays in the pouch and keeps working. Nothing goes down the drain.
The bar hangs to dry in the pouch, so it stops melting away in a wet dish.
The pouch is only as good as its bar.
Past 40, the skin makes a new oil called nonenal, and the oil is the smell. Water slides off it. So does most soap, which is why another shower changes nothing. Kakishibu cuts the grease, but only where it reaches the skin.
Kakishibu is the juice of unripe persimmons, pressed and left to ferment until it turns deep amber. Persimmons ripen once a year, so we press one harvest and wait for the next. The fruit ferments for months, by the traditional Japanese kakishibu method. Every bar is built on an extract certified at over 90% tannin, lot-tested.
When persimmon soap got popular, the copycats came fast. Opaque orange bars. Persimmon fragrance. Fragrance sits on top of the smell. Fermented fruit works on the oil itself. The pouch is here to make sure more of that fruit reaches your skin.
The ritual, with the pouch.
1. Warm water. Bar in the pouch, string pulled. Work it to a full lather.
2. Wash slowly with the pouch itself. Let it reach the skin.
3. Rinse well. Hang the pouch to dry. Daily.
What it is made of.
Woven sisal and a drawstring. The sisal is undyed.
Try it free.
Pay only if it works.
Use it for 60 days. If you do not smell the difference, and the people close to you do not notice it either, email us and we refund every cent. No forms, no return shipping, no hard feelings.
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