From KISO Hinoki cypress to hair care series “HINOKI”

The scent of Hinoki cypress is familiar with Japanese. You can feel the smell everywhere in Japan, like the Hinoki cypress bath and shrine landscape. The aroma makes you refreshed and healed because the essential oils extracted from the branches and leaves are very bracing. The botanical hair care series "HINOKI" is richly blended with the essential oil extracted from this branch and leaves. 

Hinoki cypress, the precious gifts from the earth

 Kiso Hinoki, one of Japan's most famous timber species, is used widely in wood-structured architectures that represent Japan, such as Ise Jingu, Himeji Castle, and Nagoya Castle. In Nakatsugawa City, located in the Tono region of Gifu Prefecture, the largest production area of KISO Hinoki cypress, the Maruyama Group has been dealing with Kiso Hinoki cypress for more than 100 years since it was founded in 1916. With a strong wish to deliver it to the world, in December 2019, the long-cherished desire has come true. The company "meettree" provides products that bring out beauty and health ideas with Kiso Hinoki's power. “桧”, the word of Hinoki cypress in Japanese, could be separated as “meet(会)” and “tree(木)”. The philosophy of the meettree’s products aims to bring fantastic experience from wood to the world. Starting with this belief, as our initial products, the botanical hair care series ”HINOKI” was born.

Enjoy the scent's harmony.

The fresh Hinoki cypress's scent could quiet your mind, but when Hinoki cypress combined with other scents, brings out a different smell of fun. Lavender has a clean feeling known as the "herb of relaxing” when combined with the scent of Hinoki cypress. While spreading the gentle fragrance of flowering herbs in the coolness aroma with the Hinoki cypress, it frees us from stress. Lemongrass, which has a refreshing scent when combined with the smell of Hinoki cypress, freshness could relieve our tension.

From the old days of eternity, Hinoki cypress was a special existence for Japanese.

rom a long time ago, Hinoki cypress has been used at the traditional Japanese architectures, though the branches and leaves were shaken off while transporting. We have felt those shaken branches and leaves would be forgotten in the forest. The branches and leaves of the Hinoki cypress are abundant in monoterpenes and D-limonene, which have a relaxing effect, γ-terpinene, bornyl acetate for a gentle sleeping, and α-cascenall, which is expected for its bactericidal effect. We want to bring those natural health and beauty ideas back to Japan and the world.