A Batch Day in Aruba: From Caribbean Water to Sealed Jar
Every two weeks we make a fresh batch. Come behind the scenes for a single batch day: the harvest, the triple wash, and the hand-blending.
We make sea moss gel on a steady fourteen-day rhythm, and every batch begins the same way: early, by the water, before the island heat sets in. Here's how a single batch day unfolds.
Morning: the harvest
It starts at the shoreline. Sea moss is hand-gathered from the rocks along Aruba's Caribbean coast, never pulled up by machine or scraped from a tank. Harvesting by hand means we can leave young growth to keep going and only take what's ready.
Midday: the triple wash
Fresh from the sea, the moss carries sand, salt, and bits of the ocean with it. So we rinse it, and rinse it again, and rinse it a third time (the triple wash) until what's left is clean sea moss and nothing else. It's the least glamorous part of the day and the one we're most particular about.
- First wash to clear the loose sand and debris.
- Second wash to work out the salt held in the fronds.
- Third wash to finish clean, checking by hand as we go.
Afternoon: blended and jarred
Clean moss is blended fresh in small batches so every jar keeps its full mineral profile and that smooth, spoonable texture. Then it's sealed by hand, labeled with its batch number, and kept cold. What reaches you is as close to the day it was made as we can get it.
A batch is only as good as the day it was made. That's why we make a little, often, instead of a lot, once.
By the time the last jar is sealed, the next batch is already two weeks away. It's a small, repeating rhythm, and it's how we keep every jar fresh.
