A small studio. One bar of soap. A slow start.
Bashō makes hygiene the way a small studio makes objects — slowly, plainly, and with a long view. We open with one bar, considered enough to stand alone, and we will only grow when each next thing earns its place on the shelf.
Quiet, not empty. Useful, not loud.
We believe a bar of soap should be a small, daily promise. Honest about what it contains. Patient about how it is made. Designed to be held, used, and eventually used up — without fuss, without hype, without a hundred small decisions to make at the sink.
Honest by default
We name what is in it, where it came from, and how long it took. No “miracle.” No “purifying.” A clear list of ingredients, the cure time, and the weight in grams.
Studio, not store
Designed like an object, not a product. Considered proportions, restrained palette, generous space. The packaging earns its keep — one sheet of cardstock, folded twice.
One thing, well
We begin with a single bar. We will earn the next product. The line should grow only when each new piece can stand on the shelf alone.
The Bone Bar.
CHF 22.00
Cold-pressed olive, sea salt, juniper. Slow-cured for twenty-eight days, triple-milled, slipped into a single sheet of folded cardstock. Suited to most skin types.
Six things, and water.
The Bone Bar is a true Castile-leaning soap: olive oil saponified slowly, with a little salt and a single essential-oil pairing for scent. No proprietary blends, no fragrance compounds, no preservatives — the cure is long enough that none are needed.
72%
Saponified olive
Sodium Olivate
Cold-pressed olive oil reacted slowly into soap. The body of the bar; the green, soft note.
14%
Spring water
Aqua
Carries the alkali through the saponification, then leaves quietly during the twenty-eight day cure.
8%
Glycerin
Glycerin
Made naturally during saponification — never stripped out. Holds water on the skin.
2%
Sea salt
Sodium Chloride
Mediterranean. A little hardens the bar, finely exfoliates, and changes the lather on day forty.
2%
Juniper berry
Juniperus Communis
Steam-distilled essential oil. Resinous, dry, slightly green — the colder note in the scent.
2%
Atlas cedar
Cedrus Atlantica
Steam-distilled essential oil. The warmer note — pairs with the juniper, lives on in the cardstock box.
A bar of soap is a small, daily promise.— Bashō, the founding line
Quiet letters, once a season.
A short note when a new formulation cures, the process changes, or the studio has something worth saying. No more, no less.