Lalitpur, an organic skincare brand from Nepal, is hosting a pop-up shop at LUSH LIFE (14-9 Daikanyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) in Daikanyama, Tokyo, through October 22nd. The pop-up shop will host talk events featuring various guests. The first half of the approximately 90-minute event will feature a conversation between Lalitpur founder Mai Mukaida and the guest. The second half will feature a conversation with attendees over a selection of carefully selected natural wines. The event will be held six times in total, with appearances by takram director Kotaro Watanabe, numabooks CEO Shintaro Uchinuma, and nowhere resort CEO Mayo Kawabe. On October 19th, Morioka Shoten CEO Tsutomu Morioka will be the guest; on the 20th, jewelry brand SIRI SIRI designer Naho Okamoto; and on the 21st, Kotaro Watanabe will be the guest, as in the first event.

Lalitpur founder Mai Mukaida first visited Nepal in 1999 and launched the "Coffret Project" 10 years later, a women's support initiative through makeup. She holds makeup workshops for women, including victims of human trafficking, and has applied makeup to over 1,300 women to date. Lalitpur is a natural cosmetics brand founded as part of this initiative, with the desire to create jobs for women. All products are manufactured by Nepalese women.

The brand's products incorporate herbs native to the Himalayas of Nepal. Produced without the use of pesticides or chemicals, they offer cosmetics that are gentle on both the earth and skin. The brand also collaborates with artists and cultural figures active in various fields around the world, and the brand's logo and packaging design were created by Naho Okamoto, who will also be speaking at the talk event. The lineup of items includes a facial herbal soap (80g 3,300 yen) made with jatamansi, a perfume oil made from nard that was considered one of the most luxurious and precious fragrances even in ancient Rome, and milk from yaks that live in the Himalayan mountains at altitudes of over 3,500m, which are free from chemical pollution; a multi-purpose balm (30g 3,000 yen) containing sea buckthorn from Nepal, which contains omega-7, a mineral that is attracting attention for its effects on skin; and bath salts (30g 700 yen, 500g 6,000 yen) made with rock salt collected from the Himalayan mountains that warms the body from the inside out.