Add Sake To Your Beauty Regimen

Sake’s softening, hydrating and glow-giving powers largely come from kojic acid—a by-product of rice malt that’s been used for centuries in Japanese rituals. “It’s a gentler, more natural counterpart to the skin-brightening agent hydroquinone,” says David Bank, assistant clinical professor in dermatology at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Whether you want to do as the geishas did and bathe in the stuff or simply dab a little on, we’ve rounded up a whole menu of options.

Glow like you were born with Vermeer lighting after peeling offBoscia’s Sake Bright White Mask.$38;boscia.com.

Noting even the most grizzled sake makers have youthful hands led toSK-II’santiaging line, including R.N.A. PowerEye Cream.$135;sk-ii.com.

新鲜的山ke Bath,which is 50 percent sake, co-opts the geisha tradition of scenting bathwater with persimmons.$82;fresh.com.

Head to the Shibui Spa atThe Greenwich Hotel在纽约市Drunken Lotus Massagewith hot sake-soaked compresses and a dip in a candlelit sake bath. Go ahead and take a sip from the sake-filled flask—you’ve earned it.From$220;thegreenwichhotel.com.

A sake-spiked softening and hydrating foot soak kicks off the two-hourWinter Seasonal Journeyat the stunning newAman Tokyoin the Otemachi district.$400;aman.com.