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Bathing Culture

4.3 • 31 Reviews

Bathing Culture offers naturally radical, environmentally friendly bathing products.

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4.3

Bathing Culture earns polarized reviews: enthusiasts praise the Mind & Body Wash and Cathedral Grove scent as transporting and clean-rinsing, while detractors find the body wash stripping, under-lathering, and occasionally off-putting in scent. The brand’s eco-minded glass packaging, refill options, and evocative redwood-forest fragrances stand out, but some users report dryness, broken caps, shedding towels, and brushes that lose bristles.

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  • 7mo ago

    We've been using these hand towels for probably over a year and they've mostly held up well. Love the colors and aesthetic it adds to a pretty boring bathroom. The ties on the ends need to be retied every so often, which never ends up looking as it did originally, but these towels serve there purpose and then some.

  • 2y ago

    I've seen their rainbow towels for a while on instagram/pinterest and have always loved the look of them. Finally purchased some (two of the body towels, two of the hand towels) in the darker color way and am not impressed. the body towels shed SO badly I had to get another towel to rub off the fabric pills. Truly a gross feeling getting out of the shower, drying yourself off, and then feeling little pieces of lint allllllllllll over your body and not feeling clean. Idk. Maybe it takes several washes for them to not shed but i'm not having a good time over here

  • 4y ago

    I’m a long-time fan of Bathing Culture, having used their soap and natural sponges for a few years now. This year I finally pulled the trigger and bought their full gallon kit. That’s how obsessed I am. The scent is divine, the founders are super nice, and custoemr service is great (I got order help thru DMs on IG). After the natural sponge fully disintegrated, I made the mistake of ordering one from Public Goods and it was not of the same quality as Bathing Cultures.

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    I can’t remember if it was free or what but I was sent an aluminum travel sized container to fill, it’s cute, light weight, and I use it a ton! All the brand packaging makes me happy.

  • 4y ago

    This is just simply not a good body wash. My skin feels SQUEAKY squeaky clean after using it... AKA super stripping to the skin. It smells alright... if you like the smell of jumbled & overpowered essential oils, but it basically feels like using dish soap on your body.

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    Some moisturizing/hydrating ingredients to not make the skin feel so squeaky!

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What is Bathing Culture?

Bathing Culture offers naturally radical, environmentally friendly bathing products.

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San Francisco-based personal care brand Bathing Culture is designed for the adventurous, the design-driven, and the sustainably-minded. Bathing Culture was founded by childhood friends Tim Hollinger and Spencer Arnold, who share a lifelong love of all things outdoors -- surfing, climbing, and mountain biking together from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Marin Headlands. The duo’s active lifestyles often ended in a search for outdoor bathing opportunities, from spontaneous dips in hidden thermal springs to showering (and dancing) under waterfalls deep in the forest. Over the years, they found that run-of-the-mill body washes simply didn’t fit into these joyful moments of bathing. Existing products typically stripped skin of moisture, were full of toxic synthetics, didn’t deliver an effective clean, or were housed in ecologically harmful and aesthetically uninspiring packaging. Enter Bathing Culture: an homage to the joyful act of bathing and its centuries-old influence uniting cultures around the globe and across generations. In an appropriately celebratory manner, the brand was launched at a BYOB(ottle) beach party, where friends and family brought their own vessels to fill with the brand’s now-bestselling Mind & Body Wash. This approach lives on today, with Bathing Culture leading the charge to create refill-friendly personal care products. Through Bathing Culture, Tim and Spencer hope to motivate their customers to take part in an age-old tradition: bathing not only in the literal sense, but also bathing in all that the world has to offer, inspiring peace, community, health and happiness.