Chapter 8 — The Wall of Manufacturing : Confronted by the Impossible
The First Step and the Exhibition
After creating the Konotemary Extract, I felt an unshakable conviction: “This must be shared with the world.” A miracle born at the intersection of coincidence and inevitability could not remain a private experiment. Determined to bring it into form, I joined exhibitions and reached out to cosmetic manufacturers and OEM companies. Deep down, I believed, “If I convey the passion and the power of these ingredients, they will surely understand.” But reality was far harsher than I had imagined.
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The Gap Between Technical Common Sense and Reality
“My only demand,” I told them,
“is to place nature’s wisdom at the core — to polish it through the luxury of time, and to let it resonate with pure water until the miracle of balance is complete.”
Yet every response I received was the same:
• “We’ve never made anything that way.”
• “It’s impossible.”
• “The cost doesn’t make sense.”
In the cosmetics industry, speed and low cost reign supreme. Most manufacturers seek formulas optimized for mass production, not depth of extraction. Long, low-temperature processes were dismissed as inefficient relics. I pleaded, “This process is essential. Only through this method can the extract be born.” But to them, my words sounded like an incomprehensible request — something outside the language of industrial logic.
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The Reality of “Total Rejection”
I went from factory to factory. Each door closed before me. Even being granted a conversation was rare — most ended with a simple “impossible.”
“Who would buy something that takes so much effort?”
“Why spend so much time on what doesn’t scale?”
I had collided head-on with the immovable wall of industry common sense. Passion and ideals alone could not move the machinery of manufacturing. Every attempt failed — until the only word that remained was “total rejection.”
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Learning from Total Rejection — The Invisible Barrier to Entry
This experience revealed another truth: the reason no one could imitate this.
• Most manufacturers are built around efficiency and cost optimization.
• Under such assumptions, “slow, faithful extraction and maturation” simply don’t fit into the system.
• As a result, the infrastructure capable of supporting such craftsmanship did not exist.
In other words, the manufacturing infrastructure itself had become a barrier to entry. At the time, this was my greatest obstacle — but seen from a business lens, it was also the seed of a powerful moat. Because the process could not be industrialized, its philosophy became its protection. No one else could replicate it.
Failure was not rejection — it was proof of design integrity.
Every “impossible” I heard drew the outline of something truly unique.
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Conclusion — The Meaning Hidden in “The Sum of the Impossible”
Unsuccessful exhibitions. Manufacturers who refused the challenge. The unyielding wall of industry convention. At first glance, it looked like a declaration of impossibility. But in hindsight, these walls were actually the proof of value.
• It cannot be mass-produced — therefore it has worth.
• No one dares to attempt it — therefore it deserves pursuit.
I chose not speed, but rightness. And from that moment, I began to walk toward a new horizon — toward the fusion of technology, craftsmanship, and vision. That journey would soon lead to the Trinity of Inevitability: principle, technique, and spirit.
The sum of impossibilities became the blueprint of possibility.
From here, the story expands into the full landscape of nature — Wa, Kan, and Yo united with the sea — and the emergence of a business built on honesty, where no lies are needed.