KIREI means "beautiful", "pretty" and "clean" in Japanese.

We are a couple who love nature and have two dogs adopted from an animal shelter. After my wife's transition to sustainable living at home, we slowly started to make our whole lifestyle waste- free. We were now spending all our vacations in nature with our dogs and we had learned how to live waste-free in nature. We were planting saplings wherever we could, collecting garbage and sending it for recycling.

 

During a camping holiday on the Aegean coast, we stopped by my great-grandmother's wartime house in a small village. In the stories I had learned from our family, I had heard that she was a nurse, that she helped villagers and wounded soldiers during the war, and that she improved their treatment with herbal methods due to the lack of medicines. In a way, she was a healer heroine. We were on a magical time travel through her belongings when a huge dusty notebook greeted us. It was like we had found a treasure trove; all the medicinal plants and what they were good for, what should be used for which ailment, all of them had been meticulously recorded.

 

That was our starting point. We left our jobs. We attended trainings and seminars in many different parts of the world. During this time we were fascinated by Japanese ancient philosophy and Zen teachings. We combined what we learned with this concept. After our organic chemistry, phytotherapy and

aromatherapy trainings, we established a boutique herbal workshop and laboratory in 2019.

 

All the energy sources we use, including our vehicles, are supplied from renewable energy sources. We allocate a share of our revenues to participate in reforestation projects and help provide food and shelter for animals in need of protection.

THIS IS THE SHORT STORY OF KIREI'S LONG JOURNEY. WE ARE IMPROVING OURSELVES EVERY DAY, LOVING YOU AND NATURE AND WORKING TO PROTECT IT.