
Three plants,
one short ingredient list.
Nothing here is novel. These are ingredients Korean and Chinese hair care has used for generations — put in a bar instead of a bottle of water.
the old one.
Polygonum multiflorum — he shou wu — has been part of East Asian hair care for centuries, long enough that the folklore around it is better known than the plant. We use the root extract for what it does in a wash: it conditions as it cleans, so the bar doesn't strip.
Juniper leaf does the clarifying work. It's what cuts through silicone and styling residue at the roots — the buildup that makes fine hair lie flat and look thinner than it is.
Osmanthus is there for the scent, and only the scent. Soft apricot and tea rather than salon perfume, and it fades rather than lingering.
Most shampoo is water you pay to ship. This is the part that works.
It's a bar, so
wash the scalp, not the hair.
The only real change from bottled shampoo: soak your hair properly first, and spend the time on your scalp rather than the lengths.
It isn't about the lather.
It's about what's left behind.
Six places people notice the difference between washing hair and washing a scalp.
and nothing else changed.
Weighed down,
then lifted.
Both of these are the same amount of hair. The difference is what's sitting on it — and that's something a wash can change.
Four point nine,
and a hundred thousand bars.
The rating is what customers gave it. What follows is what to actually expect, wash by wash — including the part most brands leave out.
Rating
Worldwide
Guarantee
Shipping
Wash one, wash three,
and a month in.
Switching to a bar has a transition. Here's what it actually feels like, so you know whether what you're experiencing is normal.
Get through the transition.
Then decide.
A bar takes two or three washes to show what it does, so a seven-day window would be useless to you. You get thirty days from delivery — enough to clear the residue and see the difference. If it isn't for you, email us. Keep the bars.