Bathing Culture offers naturally radical, environmentally friendly bathing products.

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. 

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It smells great but it’s incredibly drying. I’m not sure who the audience is.

Bathing Culture products are silky and smell wonderful. 

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

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.

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 

I purchased quite a few bathing culture products as gifts for my sister and I was lucky enough to get to try the mind and body wash when she came to visit me. It smelled incredible and left my skin soft. The packaging is also very funky and fun. 

I loved the bottle and I loved the scent. The brand is amazing. The actual soap? Not my favorite as It's so drying. If you are someone looking for something that will absolutely strip your skin clean, this is the one. 

This is a review of their dry brush - it's super wonderful and fits really well in your hand. I gifted one to my mother as well for the holidays. 

My only real complaints is that I'd like it if the body wash were more moisturizing and the pop-off-top on the 8oz bottles were a screw cap. Mine broke after a few uses. 

I loved quite a bit of the brand and would recommend it to those who don't have sensitive skin or already dry very skin. The possibility of going to a refill station sounded like an interesting possibility to look forward to as the brand expands, and I'm all for products that claim to be concentrated.

When I used the body wash it stripped my skin and left it painfully dry. If you're someone who comes to their shower covered in sweat and grime, or you have extremely oily skin, it might work extremely well. I was already struggling with dry skin, so it could be a fault of mine rather than an issue with the product. The smell could be enjoyed by some, though definitely not something I could stand enough to continue using.

The packaging was refreshingly different, though! 

I was super psyched to come across Bathing Culture's body wash at a local store and *had* to have it (mostly because of the packaging).
I love the design and the heavy glass packaging, but the scent is not my fav.
It was definitely a splurge when it comes to what I typically spend on body wash and don't feel like it's any different than the soaps I purchase from Target. Would I buy it again? Probably not. But the packaging is A+ and I'm a huge sucker for that.

I can't wait to try their other products, but from the one product I had an introduction with (their rose face mist), I was absolutely in love with and happy I had purchased - definitely used it regularly throughout the day and it was the perfect item I needed during the dry summer months for a little wake me up. 

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