Featured Brand: Boveda - Dry Cannabis Problems No More

Before Boveda, it was difficult, if not impossible to control humidity for moisture-sensitive products, like cigars, cannabis and wooden instruments.

SO BOVEDA INVENTED THAT CONTROL

Starts with a frustrated cigar lover who also happened to be a humidor maker. Keeping his cigars properly humidified was a tough job. That job was labor-intensive. That labor didn’t always work. It was the ’90s and he was limited to distilled water and sponges or distilled water and shot glasses or foam and chemicals. (Some people still use those one-way humidifying methods. We don’t know why. But that’s another story.)

So he called a guy to solve the problem. That guy was Dr. Albert Saari, a retired General Mills chemist. Saari found the answer in salt. Turns out salts keep a fixed relative humidity (RH) level. Supersaturate those salts with pure water and they humidify the surrounding air.

So Saari called a guy he knew, Robert Esse, a General Mills packaging specialist. Waterproof packages, no problem. Packages to let moisture pass in and out, never been done. So Esse found a material that had a high water-vapor transmission rate but stopped salt. Bingo! Let’s patent the packaging. (And patent it many times over around the world.)

So the humidor maker then called Sean Knutsen and Timothy Swail, two friends with business and marketing backgrounds to form an entirely new company to bring this simple, yet remarkable invention to market. And in 1997, Boveda (then Humidipak) was born.

BOVEDA, THE GLOBAL LEADER IN 2-WAY HUMIDITY CONTROL SINCE 1997

TOBACCO

BOVEDA FOR TOBACCO

2019 Accessory Manufacturer of the Year by Tobacco Business

2017 Best Cigar Accessory by Cigar Journal

2015 Best Cigar Accessory by Cigar Journal

2012 Best Cigar Accessory by Cigar Journal

HERBAL MEDICINE

BOVEDA FOR HERBAL MEDICINE

2018 Excellence in Products by GreenState Cannabis Awards

WOODEN INSTRUMENTS

BOVEDA FOR WOODEN INSTRUMENTS

2017 #1 Best Guitar Humidifier by TestFacts

WHAT IS BOVEDA?

Boveda (pronounced Boh-vuh-duh) invented the world’s first 2-way humidity control in a ready-to-use packet. Inside Boveda’s semipermeable membrane contains all-natural salts and purified water.

HOW DOES BOVEDA WORK?

It’s all science. Mix certain salts with water and together they naturally regulate humidity. Boveda’s patented packaging allows the cleanest, most-purified water vapor to either be emitted or absorbed.

Boveda acts on the environment around it. By adding and absorbing moisture, Boveda keeps the contents of a sealed container at a precise relative humidity (RH) level. Cool, huh?

The number printed on Boveda are the RH%. Whatever product you’re storing calls for specific RH levels.

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