Our story
Made slowly, on purpose.
Aurrea began with a jar of sugar and oil mixed at a kitchen counter, and a question: what if caring for the body were treated as a ritual again, rather than a task?
A note from the founder
I started making scrubs for the end of long days. Not to fix anything. Just to have ten minutes that belonged to me, with warm water and something that smelled of resin and vanilla.
Somewhere in those evenings I noticed that the gestures carried more than they seemed to. Scrubbing felt like setting something down. Sinking into the bath afterward felt like a small kindness I had forgotten how to offer myself. And the last minute, before I reached for a towel, became the place where I decided what I wanted the next day to hold.
People have done these three things for thousands of years, in bathhouses and kitchens and by rivers. Aurrea is my attempt to make objects worthy of them: honest ingredients, mixed by hand, in jars you will want to keep.
— Georgia, Founder at AURREA
The making
Every jar passes through the same pair of hands.
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Sourcing
We choose each ingredient for how it feels on skin and how it was grown, and we buy from as few suppliers as possible so we can know them by name. Some of the plants are grown in our own garden.
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Handmade in Quebec
Sugar, salt and oil are weighed and folded together by hand, in quantities small enough to test with the fingertips, adjust, and make right.
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Packed with care
Orders are wrapped in paper and sent with as little plastic as we can manage.
What we hold to
Fewer ingredients
If an ingredient does not change how the scrub feels or keeps, it does not go in.
Time over scale
We would rather sell out than speed up. A batch takes as long as it takes.
An honest label
We say what is in the jar and what it does, and nothing we cannot stand behind.
Begin with a scrub.
Everything we make starts with letting go.