It is time to celebrate your new and beautiful skin. That is what Caviahue means, “a place for gathering and celebration.”

The Acquaessentials’ Caviahue product line of Thermal Mud, Thermal Water, Nourishing and Moisturizing Cream, Anti Wrinkle Cream and Eye Contour Cream provides your skin with deep cleaning, nourishment and renewing qualities that are not found in any other products.

Part of the reason is the location where these products come from and how they are made – the renowned thermal water springs and spas found in South America – in the region of Patagonia to be exact. These thermal waters are a key ingredient and what makes these products special and effective.

A Ritual of Beauty

To the south of South America there is a land like no other – it is often described as a magical place. Practically uninhabited and pristine, one finds rolling hills, volcanoes, thick woods, lakes and springs. This gift from nature is called Patagonia.

The heart of this region became a sanctuary long ago for ancient inhabitants: the Mapuches. They walked many miles every year to gather there during the summer. Once in Caviahue, they enjoyed bathing in the many lagoons of the area and benefited from the healing and soothing properties of the hot thermal waters. Some oral chronicles depict how the Mapuche women would soak themselves with the mud from the bed of the lagoons as part of a ritual of beauty.  

The Land of Thermal Springs

Five hundred years later, the soothing qualities of Caviahue mud and water were re-discovered by a group of visionaries who created the Caviahue Spa. Located northwest of Patagonia, the Caviahue Spa is one of South America´s thermal gems. The unique thermal water emerging from the inside of the earth is the reason why hundreds of visitors gather there every year.  

The whole ecosystem works like a natural thermal laboratory. The process begins many miles above Caviahue, on top of the Copahue volcano. During winter, snow accumulates on the crater surroundings.  Although the volcano is considered inactive, there has been some activity since the eighteenth century. It acts as a boiler which is constantly melting snow.

Water accumulates in the crater forming a lagoon which then drains to the inside of the volcano.  The Copahue volcano acts as a natural water filter. This gradual process charges water with trace elements and keeps it warm due to the thermal activity. When the water’s long voyage ends several miles away from the foot of the volcano, it accumulates again to create a group of lagoons. This natural filtration process brings the charged water in contact with minerals and other elements that eventually get mixed with the volcanic and sulfurous clay from the soil. The resulting mud and water from some of those lagoons are used in Caviahue skin care products.

Water and mud are gathered and taken to the city of Neuquén, 300 miles away from the thermal site, where the sophisticated Copahue Laboratory is located.  It is at these labs where Caviahue skin care products are manufactured. Modern formulating procedures and processes are combined with the best from nature to produce Caviahue beauty skin care products.