Umai Chemical was founded in 1599 as a salt manufacturing industry. The founder, Umai, was a salt-making engineer. Currently, we have the largest market share of epsom solt in Japan. "We would like to create the products which has passion and a unique wourldview. Life comes and goes but we would like to make every day a life a bit softer throuth our humor, healing and high quality experience. So we have established bath products brand, "NEHAN TOKYO." Through the our unique method, we produce epsom bath salt which purity is 99.99% and many of body care products. We introduce Japanese bathing and relaxing method with our products from Tokyo to the world.
The origin of the brand name, NEHAN, is one of the three most important doctrines in Buddhism – Nirvana. NEHAN is a Japanese transliteration of Nirvana, which is also the name of a legendary grunge band. We have named our brand “NEHAN” because it symbolizes the highest level of healing, the achievable point, and being a Japanese-born brand.