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A local gift with...Environmental Sense!!

What a good sensation is produced by being traveling and enjoying the local shopping offered by the country of high quality and with a different presentation?

For this reason, with bring you in this opportunity an excellent recommendation if you wish to take with you something totally local and 100% natural for the skin’s care made in Costa Rica.

Ara Jabones Artesanales (Ara Handmade Soaps) is a Pyme enterprise dedicated to produce and commercialize natural soaps that promote the healthy concept for every kind of skin. Among its specialties, there are these delightful mixtures: activated carbon, palmarosa & shea nuts, mint & eucalyptus, lavender & lemongrass, beeswax & sweet orange, cocoa, coffee & vanilla.   

The interesting part of this business that has the Costa Rican Seal and that was initiated by professionals in Engineering and in the Environment is that it has achieved to combine Science with Art, producing perfumed soaps, strengthening the natural elements’ use with a great environmental sense.

More information: (506) 8334-3917 with Natalia Barboza: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

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Photo by:  Ara Jabones Artesanales-Costa Rica

National design is rescuing our Oxcarts’ Value

Homeland Effect: Rescuing what is National

We visited an interesting shop that captured our attention for its graphic design. It tries to note on many of its little offered gifts, things that are very typical from Costa Rica. They are “Homeland Effect”.

 
Their main desire was to undertake a business to get something positive, mixed with the homeland’s passion. They saw the need to create a fostering product about the Costa Rican identity within a modern design. In that time, they initiated their main products: We were told by the founders that they thought about the stickers made with Costa Rican-related-designs.

Once you go into the store, the first things that you would like best are the modern pillows with lining and the wrapped water bottles. Those products are made with flora, fauna, and Costa Rican beaches designs. These products’ designs are original and they are fully focused on Costa Rica’s culture.

The fabric used by them to make these beautiful pillows is jute because it symbolizes the coffee bags. In this way, we try to reinforce the Costa Rican popularity. All those pillows have a zipper and we can take out the stuffing to wash them well. They are mixed with damask and created with thermoadhesive material which is more washing and using resistant.

The shop is located in San Pedro, one can send these products to many parts of the world at Costa Rica’s Post Office. More information: www.instagram.com/efectopatriacr

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Photo by: Efecto Patria

Pottery is Rescuing our Costa Rican Culture

Recently, we have been in a high-level-artisan exhibition whose brand name is “Enraizados” (“enraizados”: deeply rooted). This is a pottery-based project that has been developed taking the Costa Rican Culture as a key element. They used the word “rooted” as a pretext for their logo and all their workshop design concept. 

Among their main products are the “Mascarada” cups (“mascarada”: masquerade), although they make many other ones like coffee-filtering objects, jugs, glasses, and also spoons. “Enraizados” has also been dedicated to develop personalized projects and pieces like sculptures, or artistic projects. 

Its artist and owner, José Eduardo Montero Montero, is telling us that his objective is to be known by all the possible people. But, his main public is composed by those adults who are appreciating the unique culture and design. He is also addressing to those ones who are interested on the popular culture.

The popular “Barveña” masquerade is a patrimonial good and the Enraizados brand is trying to take this part of our people to the homes with the most people number, its owner emphasized.

The personalized design is one of the greatest attributes of these Costa Rican pottery artists. It also stands out the exclusiveness, because each piece is unique and completely handmade. So, this guarantees that two pieces are not exactly the same. The design shown in the pieces is very well thought, due to the fact that it tries to recognize and appreciate our traditional mask makers’ remnants.

The “Enraizados” handmade and artistic pottery is not hesitating that the next year 2018 would be full of new products and characters on its “mascarada” cups. It would also have architectural projects with environments’ design. 

But, where can we get an exclusive “Enraizados” cup? We can get it at Kiosko San José (San José Newsstand), Satisfactory, Finca Rosa Blanca Hotel, El Cajoncito, and Camanance, among other design shops in San José and Heredia.

In the same way, at Correos de Costa Rica (Costa Rica’s Post Office) and at cajoncito.com one can find the service that is sending these products to other countries. More information:  https://www.facebook.com/enraizadosceramica/

Photos by:  Enraizados