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Japanese persimmon soap · 柿渋
If your persimmon soap only removes the odour, it is doing half the job
Persimmon tannin binds age-related odour and rinses it away. That part works. The question nobody selling it answers is what stops the next batch forming.
Removing it and preventing it are two different jobs
The compound behind age-related odour is nonenal. It forms when the oils your skin produces oxidise — a chemical change, not dirt.
That gives you two problems, not one. There is oxidised oil already sitting on your skin and in your clothes. And there is fresh oil, arriving continuously, waiting to do the same thing.
Persimmon tannin is very good at the first job. It binds the compound and takes it away with the lather. But binding what is already there does nothing about what forms tomorrow.
A bar that only removes is a bar you are always behind on.
Which is why we did not stop at persimmon
Yuagari is a persimmon soap. It is also a green tea soap, a camellia seed oil soap and a sea salt soap — because the tannin alone is only half an answer.
Green tea catechins are antioxidants. Their job on this bar is the second half: slowing the oxidation that creates the odour in the first place, rather than waiting to clean up after it.
Four ingredients, each doing something. No fifth active for the label.
Persimmon to remove it. Green tea to slow what forms next.
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More persimmon is not the same as more effect
You will see persimmon soaps competing on tannin percentage, as though the number is the product.
Concentration matters up to a point. After that you are adding more of the thing that handles one half of the problem, and still nothing that handles the other. A higher number on a single ingredient does not turn it into two.
You cannot smell it on yourself — so wash where it forms
This is the genuinely difficult part. Nose-blindness to your own scent is normal, which means you cannot verify the problem or the fix directly.
What you can control is where you wash. Nonenal concentrates on sebum-rich skin: behind the ears, the back of the neck, the chest, the underarms, the upper back. Most people rinse those areas rather than wash them.
Lather, leave it twenty seconds, rinse. The two that matter most are behind the ears and the back of the neck — and they are the two nearly everyone skips.
Thirty seconds, five places, once a day.
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Sixty days, and you keep the bar
Because you cannot smell it on yourself, we are not going to ask you to prove anything.
Use it daily for sixty days. If the people around you notice no difference, email us and we refund the order. You do not send the bar back, and it does not need to be unused — which would be a strange condition on a product you are meant to try.
The persimmon soap that does not stop at persimmon.
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Yuagari is made in small batches with persimmon pressed in autumn, when the tannin content peaks. It is unscented by default, with lavender and yuzu for people who want a little something and nothing for people who do not.
Yuagari is a cosmetic product. It cleanses the skin. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual experience varies.
Ingredient functions described here reflect the roles these ingredients play in the formulation. Confirm the full INCI list on the carton.
No risk
Use the whole bar. If it does nothing, we refund it.
Wash with it daily for sixty days. If the people around you notice no difference, email us and we refund the order — you keep what is left of the bar. No sealed-packaging clause, no return required.
Before you decide
Questions we get every week
How is this different from other persimmon soaps?
Most are built around persimmon tannin alone, which binds odour that has already formed. Yuagari pairs it with green tea catechins, which are antioxidants — the aim being to slow the oxidation that creates the odour, not only to remove it afterwards.
How do I know if this is my problem?
The tell is where the smell lives. If it is on your collar and your pillowcase rather than on your skin, and worse in the morning than after exercise, that is the signature. Stronger deodorant not helping is the other clue.
Can I use it head to toe?
Yes. It is a normal bar soap. The five areas above are simply where the compound concentrates, so that is where the extra twenty seconds pays off.
Am I signing up for a subscription?
No. One-time purchase, no auto-ship, and we do not store your card for a future charge.
What if it does not work for me?
Email us within sixty days and we refund the order. You do not need to send the bar back, and it does not need to be unused.
Still unsure? Email us and a person will answer within one business day.