Our Story

The waitlist that started it

In Tokyo, a head spa is a normal appointment. You lie back, someone warms your scalp with steam, works it with their hands for forty minutes, rinses it properly, and you leave with hair that looks like a different person owns it. The practice is old and it is ordinary there.

It arrived in Los Angeles and London and became a $150 luxury with a waiting list months long. That is where the idea came from. Not from a new ingredient. From an unfair distribution of a technique that already worked.

What we found when we looked properly

A head spa is three things happening in order. Warmth, so the oil packed around the follicle softens instead of staying hard. Time, because ten minutes of proper contact does what two minutes of fingernails never will. And a clean surface at the end, so whatever you put on your scalp actually reaches it.

Every at-home product we could find did one of those three things and called it a system. Massagers with no warmth. Serums with no way to reach skin. Scrubs that scratched a scalp that was already irritated. So we built the box that does all of it, and we put a camera in it so you can check our work.

髪湯

The name is two Japanese characters. 髪 kami is hair. 湯 yu is the hot water of the bath. Together, the hair bath. It is the plainest possible description of what this is, which felt right for a category full of promises.

What we will not do

• We will not tell you this regrows hair. It is a cosmetic system for a healthy scalp environment, and that is what we sell it as.
• We will not sell you a serum you already own. The dome has a cabin. Fill it with yours.
• We will not run a fake countdown clock. When a batch is nearly gone we say so, and when it is gone the price goes back up.
• We will not make the guarantee hard to use. One email. We pay the return shipping.

Where we are

KAMIYU ships from 1021 E Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY 82001, United States. Email reaches a person at hello@kamiyu.co, Monday to Friday, and gets answered inside one business day.