Unplugged Essentials
unplug, recover, and evolve
Written By BLK Oceans Staff
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Let today be the day that you start a full-body self-care routine. Unplugged Essentials was developed to promote relaxation and to ease inflammation, muscle soreness, and minor aches with body bars, muscle balms, and bath soaks.
“…simple self care practices incorporating organic ingredients in an effort to help people unplug, recover, and evolve.”
Kevin Rose Jr., Founder of Unplugged Essentials, caught us up on his brand, how it all started, and the transformative experience of sensory deprivation.
Let the self-care evolution begin.
How did you get started with Unplugged Essentials?
“Unplugged Essentials was born after I had an extremely transformative experience with floating (Sensory Deprivation). Shortly after my first few floating experiences, I knew I wanted to help facilitate that experience for my community with the goal of opening a wellness center in my hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After hitting some major roadblocks, I decided to pivot and offer a more accessible offering in the interim, with the goal of educating people on the power of a simple self-care routine. Since our launch in 2018, we have been growing steadily and focused on offering simple self-care practices incorporating organic ingredients in an effort to help people unplug, recover, and evolve.”
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What are some of the health benefits of bath soaks?
“It started with the question of, ‘how can we replicate some of the benefits of floating in a take-home experience?’ and it evolved into four unique experiences for the bath. Our soaks start out with a magnesium base and a water soluble hemp powder, these two ingredients are known to help with inflammation, muscle soreness, and minor aches and pains. In building off of those ingredients, I knew I wanted the soaks to have extremely distinct scent profiles. They all use organically grown essential oils and offer some additional benefits in the form of aromatherapy that are specific to each blend.”
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What are you most popular products?
“It really depends on the customer. For the most part, our Knight and Queen Soaks are super popular but we also have a lot of people that truly love our King Muscle Balm. I think above all people really love one or two specific scents of ours and try to get everything we offer within that scent.”
What’s in store for Unplugged Essentials?
“The goal is to continue to upgrade our packaging to more sustainable offerings and we have some plans coming into the spring of next year, but I have to be a little quiet about it at the moment… but if all goes well we might be offering the unplugged experience in-person sooner than later ;)”
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