ATHENA – THE CLARITY RITUAL - EUCALYPTUS, TEA TREE, TURMERIC, PEPPERMINT, ROSEMARY
This is my most complex botanical blend, and smells utterly divine! Consider it your daily reset button.
Bright, clarifying, and named for a goddess — Athena is a citrus-and-herb powerhouse built for skin that wants a fresh start.
• Key ingredients: Orange, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Rosemary, Turmeric
• Scent: bright, citrusy, herbal, fresh
• Great for: oily or blemish-prone skin looking for a clarifying cleanse
• Format: hot-process bar soap, handmade in small batches
THE LORE
In ancient Greece, bathing was as much ritual as hygiene. Long before soap as we know it existed, Greeks washed and anointed themselves with oils infused with aromatic herbs. The naturalist Theophrastus, writing in the 4th-3rd century BCE, recorded actual perfume-making methods in his treatise Concerning Odors — describing olive oil used as a carrier for scent, and fragrances built from mint and other herbs steeped or gently warmed in oil.
Centuries later, the writer Athenaeus preserved an even older passage describing a man who, after bathing, anointed his arms with mint oil and his neck and knees with fragrant thyme. Our Athena recipe takes its cue from that tradition — olive oil at the center, surrounded by bright, clarifying botanicals: peppermint, rosemary, eucalyptus, tea tree, turmeric, and orange. A modern ritual, built on a 2,000-year-old idea.
The gods had temples. You have a shower.
ATHENA – THE CLARITY RITUAL - EUCALYPTUS, TEA TREE, TURMERIC, PEPPERMINT, ROSEMARY
This is my most complex botanical blend, and smells utterly divine! Consider it your daily reset button.
Bright, clarifying, and named for a goddess — Athena is a citrus-and-herb powerhouse built for skin that wants a fresh start.
• Key ingredients: Orange, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Rosemary, Turmeric
• Scent: bright, citrusy, herbal, fresh
• Great for: oily or blemish-prone skin looking for a clarifying cleanse
• Format: hot-process bar soap, handmade in small batches
THE LORE
In ancient Greece, bathing was as much ritual as hygiene. Long before soap as we know it existed, Greeks washed and anointed themselves with oils infused with aromatic herbs. The naturalist Theophrastus, writing in the 4th-3rd century BCE, recorded actual perfume-making methods in his treatise Concerning Odors — describing olive oil used as a carrier for scent, and fragrances built from mint and other herbs steeped or gently warmed in oil.
Centuries later, the writer Athenaeus preserved an even older passage describing a man who, after bathing, anointed his arms with mint oil and his neck and knees with fragrant thyme. Our Athena recipe takes its cue from that tradition — olive oil at the center, surrounded by bright, clarifying botanicals: peppermint, rosemary, eucalyptus, tea tree, turmeric, and orange. A modern ritual, built on a 2,000-year-old idea.
The gods had temples. You have a shower.
