Salacious Drinks Brings a Mineral Water from Around the World to Your Doorstep

By Matt Yan | From the Edible DC Fall 2020 issue

Tired of plain old tap water? Salacious Drinks, a BIPOC- and female-owned local business, ships mineral water, which is said to have positive health benefits and is sourced from producers found around the world. 

While working at a grocery store, co-founder Ashley Epperson met her business partner, where they both took an interest in water by sampling different styles of mineral water. As they continued to test the water, they noticed that mineral waters from sourced from springs around the world had unique chemical characteristics and tastes, and thus the idea for Salacious Drinks was born.  

“We wanted people to be able to travel the world with water and introduce them to new brands,” Epperson says.  

Salacious Drink’s co-founder, Ashley Epperson

And as COVID-19 continues to disrupt daily life, Salacious Drinks moved to an online-only setup, delivering their products to customers across the country. Sparkling waters like Aqua Carpatica—a naturally sparkling mineral water from Romania—are among the most popular.  

Epperson says that mineral waters have a variety of health benefits due to the naturally occurring substances like calcium, iron and zinc. Aqua Carpatica is salt-free and has 1,000 minerals per milligram, making for a light yet bold sparkling water, she says.  

Salacious Drinks offers free delivery to the DC area along with the option to personalize your water pack. With products from places including Saint-Géron in France and Found flavored water from Turkey, the options are endless. 

“If you think further and harder about [water], it does have different tastes, [and] it has different subtle nuances—that’s just the idea, and that’s what we want to do,” Epperson says. “I want to bring the world of water to people, and to be able to do that now is just amazing.”