Immersive Self Care, featuring Shikohin Founder and CEO Takeshi Nobuhara

COSMOFACTORY

Bathing and wellness are as mainstream today as personal care is. CPG brands that invite consumers into an immersive self-care routine, that formulate with culturally traditional ingredients, and that bring therapeutic benefits to bath time are winning in the global marketplace.

This week on the CosmoFactory podcast, we discover the world of Japanese bath culture. Our guest is Takeshi Nobuhara, Founder and CEO of Shikohin—which translates to ‘indulgence’ in English and as Nobuhara explains, “is not something you need to survive but something you need to enrich your life.” The brand launched in mid-2022 and comprises not only bath and body care products but also tools, along with skin care. Shikohin brings distinctive ingredients from Japan to beauty consumers in the US, including minerals from the Kinugawa hot spring, Hinoki Cypress, Yuzu, Snow mushroom, Wood Ear mushroom, Reishi mushroom, Chaga mushroom, and Maitake mushroom.

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