Notes from Detroit.
Short reads on what is on the shelf, the scents and ingredients, and how to use them.
Bar soap or body wash: how each one cleans.
Same job, two tools. How a bar cleans, how a wash cleans, and which one earns the shelf.
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Bar soap or body wash: how each one cleans.
Same job, two tools. How a bar cleans, how a wash cleans, and which one earns the shelf.
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What sulfate free means on a body wash label.
Two names, SLS and SLES. Sulfate free means both are absent. Here is what stands in for them.
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What turmeric does in a bar of soap.
Pigment, scent, a slow gold lather. What the root actually does in a bar, without the hype.
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Turmeric soap and kojic acid soap: what is in each bar.
Two bars, two labels. One is a root, one is a compound from a ferment.
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What is actually in goat milk: a label reader's guide.
Fats, proteins, milk sugars. The carton already knew. The label tells the rest.
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The front and the back of the bottle.
What the front earns. What the back carries. What an absence means.
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The two-pack.
A soap lasts about three weeks. A pair lasts longer, with a spare for the sink.
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A morning with turmeric.
Lemon first. Then the warm floor under it. The lotion in actual use.
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Why lemon peel.
The peel, not the juice. The second note across the whole line.
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Why this line exists.
Ten scents. Wash, lotion, bar soap, and scrub. Named ingredients. Founded in Detroit, 2018.
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Why Detroit.
Detroit is the lens. It is the eye for what is durable and what is dressed up to look durable.
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Why no em dashes.
A small discipline. A real one.