Soap Cotton

Castelbel Porto – Cotton Soap – from Portugal

The Castelbel Cotton Soap smells as wonderfully fragrant as freshly laundered linens. The latest scent in the Ambiente series, Cotton, has an intensity that is never overpowering, but rather perceived as very pleasant. The oval bar of soap fits beautifully in the hand.

Soap with the scent of cotton – craftsmanship from Portugal

The production of natural soaps has a 300-year-old tradition in Portugal – Castelbel's own history began in 1999, when Aquiles Barros, a respected professor of chemistry and former employee of the Ach Brito soap factory, decided to establish something new and his own.

Not far from the port city of Porto in northern Portugal lies the small village of Castêlo da Maia. This is where the company was based, and where its name comes from: Castelbel – beautiful castle.

At the beginning, the Castelbel soap manufactory produced private labels for a New York department store, and later for Galeries Lafayette in Paris. The name Castelbel remained hidden. Since 2006, the Castelbel Ambiente series (lavender, rose, verbena) has existed, and the success story began to unfold. A major contribution to this has been made by the wonderful room fragrances in magnificent glass diffusers, which are exported from Portugal to the whole world. One year later, the exclusive Portus Cale series followed, which has found enthusiasts as far as Dubai, South Africa, and Japan with its Portuguese product design and delights museum guests in the restrooms of the Louvre in Paris.