Red Flower: Japan Bath and Body
Red Flower has created two ritual-based body treatments founded on the principle of stimulating blood flow through the body by blending layers of exceptional ingredients and pure scents deeply into the skin. While each part of these rituals works perfectly on its own, it’s when you set aside time, step into your shower and bath and take part in your own spiritual journey of scent and cleansing that truly makes this experience like none other. It’s like unlike anything you’ve ever tried—we recommend setting aside an hour, lighting some candles, tuning out the world and giving yourself over to a beautiful bathing experience. All products are entirely free of drying agents and harsh preservatives; each is 100% botanically-based and scented with pure essential oils. Never tested on animals.
Japan
The Japan line has been in development for 17 years. As a 19-year-old exchange student, Red Flower founder Yael Alkalay lived with the Yamamotos, a traditional Japanese family (the father made cloth for kimonos) in Ishikawa. On her second day in Japan, the family took her on their weekly outing to the local onsen, where the mother washed her using slices of yuzu (a citrus fruit) and a bamboo brush. “I was struck by the level of purity,” recalls Alkalay, now 36. “It was such a deep cleansing — less about the surface of the skin and more about circulation and blood flow.” The Red Flower Japan products are an indescribably lush, poetic tribute to the Yamamotos’ rituals. The slices of yuzu are now a Yuzu Mimosa Sea Algae Wash; the bamboo brush has morphed into a wonderfully spongy Ohana Gingergrass Bamboo Scrub. In the sacred bathing ritual, it’s customary to wash and exfoliate before stepping into a steaming hot tub. (courtesy of Alexia Brue) |
