Summer Calm Essentials: Inside the May Ritual Box

May is the month summer stops being a concept and starts being real. The heat is here. The schedule got harder somehow even though school's almost out. You're outside more and your body knows it.

This month's Ritual Box was built for that. Not for a sanitized idea of summer, but for the actual version: the hot afternoons, the evening walks that go longer than planned, the moments where you need something that just works without making you think about it.

Summer Calm Essentials. Here's what's inside.

Be the Sunshine Graphic Tee

Sometimes a reminder wears well. This tee was chosen for what it says and what it doesn't. No lecture, no hustle energy, just a simple thing to put on and mean. Soft, easy, the kind of shirt that goes with everything in June. Plus, the color just screams sunshine and summer to us!

Image of bright orange tee shirt with Be the Sunshine in white letters.

Don't Bug Me Spray + Fight the Bite Stick

The backyard at dusk. The trail with you take with the family on the weekend. The camping trip where everyone is running around. This duo was made for that specific kind of summer evening. The one that's actually really good until it isn't (you know what I mean, kids complaining about bug bites, you and your husband are annoyed by pesky bugs and flies). Small enough for a bag, effective enough to actually use over and over.

Image of dont bug me products from simply stated bath and body

Too Much Sun Spray

You thought it was cloudy. Or you just forgot to reapply sunscreen again. The end of a good summer day shouldn't feel like a consequence, it should feel like something that helps. This soothing after-sun spray absorbs fast and doesn't leave that sticky, greasy feeling. Keep one in the car. You will need it.

Image of too much sun spray from Simply stated bath and body

psst…life hack on this spray: keep it in the fridge when you can! Talk about cooling, instant relief on red hot + mad skin!

Travel Set of Body Creme, Foaming Body Polish, Whipped Soap in Currant + Citrus Spritz

This is the one I'm most excited about. It’s a new product offering for our subscribers!

June is our anniversary month. Can you believe it’s been eleven years of making things by hand in Fort Morgan, Colorado?? Last year we introduced our anniversary scent and it only felt right to bring it back this year. A scent that felt like summer to its core: tart, bright, a little citrusy, the kind of thing that stops you for a second when you smell it.

I’m kinda obsessed with it. And if you haven’t tried it yet, I’m hoping you’ll see why and become just as obsessed!

Meet Currant + Citrus Spritz.

Subscribers are getting it first, before we officially release to the public, in a travel set that's ready for wherever summer takes them. Three products. Two ounce jars. The right scent for right now.

This scent does not currently exist in the shop. That changes soon! But subscribers got it first and that’s just one of the many perks of joining the monthly box ;)

Image of a tri of products from Simply Stated Bath and Body.

The curated May box is subscriber-exclusive but the waitlist for June is open now. I normally don’t release when we’ll open doors again for the subscription box, but since this next round falls within our anniversary month, we’ll bend the rules…mark your calendars for June 1. Doors open for new subscribers for a short time.

Join the waitlist!

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