A woman on a white step ladder waters a yuzu tree growing out of a giant yuzu, pouring from a wooden bath bucket

Japanese shower tablets·湯浴み

Step into the steam.

Set one tablet on the shower floor. The steam carries the scent.

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Shower tablets

Mix any two tubes, from $78. Orders over $100 ship free, with a hinoki tablet dish.

A white YUAMI shower tablet stamped with a Y

How it works

  1. 1

    One tablet on the shower floor

    Just one is enough. Set it a little out of the stream, where the water splashes it.

  2. 2

    Hot water on

    The heat wakes the tablet and the steam carries it. Strong enough to fill the whole shower.

  3. 3

    Breathe

    Ten minutes of Japan. Then it dissolves to nothing, safe for pipes and septic.

湯浴み
Yuami

Yuami is an old Japanese word for bathing in hot water. Not washing. Bathing. The slow part of the day when the steam rises and nothing else matters.

Most of us don't have a Japanese hot spring down the road. We have a shower and ten minutes. So we made six tablets from the plants Japan loves most, and let the steam do the rest.

All six YUAMI scents

Rituals

Three scents for the morning, three for the night, or all six. Fifteen tablets in every tube.

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