Sea Soak
THE RESET BUTTON. A California-style onsen in a box, this powerfully detoxifying & remineralizing full-body treatment changes a little bit every time you use it.
Sea Salt, Macrocystis Pyrifera (Giant Kelp).
Each box contains everything you need for one excellent bath experience. Get all the tips below!
HOW IT GIVES BACK:
5% of each sale supports climate organizations through 1% for the planet
WHY WE MADE IT
Unless we address the stress and sluggishness that pervade modern life, our skin won't have a fighting chance to look its best.
The Sea Soak hits the reset button.
Key Actives & Their Provenance
Our giant kelp is hand-harvested by our seaweed forager off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, where wild kelp beds are abundant. To ensure maximum potency, the kelp is rinsed in the Santa Cruz Mountains immediately after harvest; it’s then sun-dried in the California desert (after being chopped into pieces so that more of the alginate gel is available to your bath).
Our special sea salt, from a devoted salt artisan in Big Sur, happens to be a favorite finishing salt of chefs in the finest restaurants along the California coast due to its incomparable saltiness, freshness, and purity. It's higher in a number of trace minerals, like potassium and calcium, than salt made from water elsewhere along the California coast.
We’re proud to create a product that responsibly features California's incredible natural resources. Each element of the plastic-free Sea Soak packaging is recyclable or compostable, and the biodegradable organic cotton bag is hand-stitched in San Francisco. We have sourced, printed, or made as much of packaging as possible in the Golden State.
THE INSPIRATION
In Ireland, the seaweed bath has been a therapeutic ritual for generations: a panacea for ailments as varied as rheumatism, water weight, sluggish circulation, and cellulite.
Seaweed’s natural function is to filter out pollutants in the ocean, sweeping out excess acidity and CO2 in the water while supplying nutrients to sea life; in a hot bath, salt water helps seaweed coax out what your body needs to let go of and replace it with essential minerals.
HOW IT WORKS
The Sea Soak heightens the benefits of the seaweed bath with a California twist. While Bladderwrack is typically used in Ireland due to its abundance in the Atlantic, we’ve opted for the wild brown seaweed of the Pacific coast, Giant Kelp, which is richer in specific anti-inflammatory & detoxifying components.
And our pure, mineral-rich salt is the key to drawing out the full benefits of our kelp. To make it, already-pristine Big Sur seawater is filtered nine times before being greenhouse evaporated over the course of four months.
WHAT IT DOES
It's a skin-soothing, glow-boosting, detoxifying ritual — excellent for “I feel gross” moments, sore muscles, stressful/sleepless times, and the general sense of depletion that can come with modern daily life.
Fans compare its effect to that of a deep-tissue massage, a session at the infrared sauna, a bath or body wrap at a spa, and "how I feel after the best, hardest workout I've ever done." And thanks to the fresh, potent alginate gel you can squeeze out of your bath bag, it's our go-to treatment for flaky scalps and pretty much any inflammatory skin condition.
Make the ritual even more restorative by listening to a meditation that was made just for it, included in every box.
How to Use
Fill your tub half-full with very hot water and sprinkle in the entire container of sea salt. Then, pour all the seaweed into your cotton bag and tie it closed securely; drop it into the bath and let it steep for at least 10 minutes, then fill the tub completely with water. For best results, we suggest keeping the water quite hot. It will gradually turn the same olive-brown shade of the seaweed as its nutrients are released into your bath.
Prepare to soak in your hot bath for 20-30 minutes. After about 5 minutes, you’ll feel your blood pumping; soon after that, you’ll start to sweat (don’t worry, this is supposed to happen). Enjoy a guided meditation as you soak.
As you soak, gently squeeze the cotton bag to release the kelp’s natural mineral-rich gel; massage this soothing gel onto your face and scalp.
Post-bath, drink a tall glass of water. Don’t be surprised if you feel the need to lie down for a few minutes. Just trust that your body
knows what it needs, and go with it.
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