Droplet
me, last year: “What if we could just drink stress away?”
As a stress-case myself, I’d been struggling with my health. Even after years of sleepless nights, a constant cycle of colds, and a couple stints with a heart monitor, I’d never really considered that stress could be the root of the issue. My doctors had prescribed something for every symptom, but my mother just knew. “You have to manage your stress,” she’d say.
So off to yoga I went, but then, during yet another late-night, insomnia-induced Google, I came across studies on adaptogens and their effects on stress hormones. In a few clicks, these magic adaptogens were in my kitchen.
Every day, I’d pour adaptogen powders and extracts into drinks and shakes, making muddy mushroomy concoctions that tasted like, well, mud. At last, I could sleep through the night, I wasn’t getting sick as often, and I felt calmer and less frazzled! Through adaptogens, I finally understood that emotional well-being is completely tied to physical wellness, and that plant magic is real.
But I still couldn’t deal with the taste of dirt.
When we started, there wasn’t a drink out there that spoke to stress in beautiful, uplifting tones, with thoughtful flavors and pure ingredients... so we made it ourselves.
With my genius ice cream food scientist and co-founder, @AdrienneBorlongan, we ended up creating an elegant sparkling beverage with adaptogens that is rooted in centuries of plant medicine, with flavors that are just so beautiful and wholesome.
Instead of cheap flavor syrups and concentrates, we used whole fruit purées. Instead of refined sugars, sticky sweet monkfruit and stevia or erythritol, we used unprocessed coconut nectar, tapped straight from the tree. And, we created flavors that honor the herbal medicine traditions of so many cultures, instead of exploiting them & twisting them into unnatural compounds so far removed from their original purpose & integrity.
We named our drink Droplet because, in Filipino folklore, dewdrops were thought to be the healing teardrops of a goddess. If you drank them, you’d be healed… which is exactly what we want for ourselves & our communities. — Celeste Perez, Droplet’s CEO
