Arencia began in a small orphanage in Panama. Many of the children there had irritated skin, so the brand started making soap for them by hand, from plain natural ingredients. That habit of working by hand stayed. Its mochi cleanser is kneaded seven thousand two hundred times, then left to ferment for seventy-two hours at low temperature, with more than twenty plant ingredients in it. Everything is certified vegan and free of animal testing. The brand buys fruit it calls imperfect but fresh, and says it has cut its use of plastic bottles by a hundred and thirty thousand.
