Denpasar, In the City

Bali Tangi, Aromatic and Traditional Spa

Tourism development in Bali in fact has an effect on the development of small-scale industries. Foreign traveler’s visiting this Island brings into view some small and medium-size craftsmen. One of them is a small-scale industry on traditional aromatic and spa “Bali Tangi.”

Bali Tangi is situated at 168 Jalan Kebo Iwa, Denpasar makes use of ingredients like dried roots, tubers and flowers. Its superior products are scrubs, oils, burner oil as a room refresher and floral incense with a local aroma. This original production of Bali support international class spa industries, either operating in Bali or overseas. Spa products ordered are scrubs, salt and so forth.
This small-scale industry was inaugurated by Chairwoman of Dekranasda Denpasar, Bintang Puspayoga on the 28 September and has numerous consumers. Its production has been used by spa service companies in Sanur, Kuta, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua and Ubud areas and it also sent to Bandung and Jakarta. While, for the export market it has just begun to serve Korea, Japan, China, Australia, Canada, Germany and Spain.
In addition, there are some other products that are made into souvenir packages. “Our enterprise, Bali Tangi, intends to support the spa business, either locally, nationally or internationally ,” said I Wayan Sukhana, the owner of Bali Tangi.
Originally, Sukhana would like his product to be consumed by local people, but in fact, it is more wanted by foreign visitors. “I would like Balinese women to keep on caring for their body, so they look beautiful. Give an opportunity to household women in Bali to look after their face and skin,” he continued.
He also added that his business was initiated in 1999. The idea came to his mind after hearing the echo of back to nature. For that reason, he intended to yield a beauty product that reflects spirit of back to nature. He took advantage various dried ingredients like tubers, roots of Bali and other plants imported from outside Bali.
By the support of his experience as an employee at a pharmaceutical company and the assistance of his wife, Yuliani S who was formerly a nurse, Sukhana compounds the ingredients by himself. In the meantime, for packaging he is assisted by seven employees. Dry floral ingredients with varied aromas are obtained here in Bali, while for other particular aromas he imports from Java (Blitar and Bogor). “We have not been able to perform the ‘distillation’ by ourselves,” he said.
Yuliani added that the obstacle she faced was that the Balinese people at all times felt busy, so they had no time for planting flowers whereas they frequently used flower for dissimilar rituals. “Formerly, when I was a nurse at Public Health Center of Kalasan, close to Borobudur Temple, there are few chemical industry-manufactured medicines. The only medicine was vitamins so I tried to make an effort to cure our patients by traditional herbs. So, henceforward I read more books pertaining to herbs and their qualities,” she recalled.
The mother of three children admitted that she marketed their products through exhibitions or trade fairs. “Every exhibition, there are always some visitors who buy our products. Some Balinese women have interest in our product. Perhaps, they do not know about it yet,” she added.
Nowadays, Bali Tangi produces all kinds of products made of gardenia like spa products, incense, massage oil for massaging with gardenia aroma. “In terms of ‘niskala’, (invisible world) the gardenia tree could make our family harmonious,” she added smilingly. (BTN/015)