Soap Ruby Red

Portus Cale – Ruby Red Soap by Castelbel

The Castelbel Ruby Red soap from the Portus Cale series smells wonderfully of red berries and dried grapes. The elegant, sweet scent of Ruby Red is perfectly balanced in its intensity, not overpowering but rather perceived as very pleasant. The 150g soap bar is just the right size for handwashing, it retains its fragrance until the very end and produces a creamy, fragrant lather. Ruby Red is a truly delightful scent, rightfully one of Castelbel's most popular.

Excellent as a gift for all port wine and Portugal lovers.

Portus Cale Ruby Red – Soap Craftsmanship from Portugal

The production of natural soaps has a 300-year-old tradition in Portugal, which began at Castelbel in 1999 when Aquiles Barros, a renowned professor of chemistry and former employee of the Ach Brito soap factory, decided to create something new and entirely his own.

Not far from the port city of Porto in northern Portugal lies the small village of Castêlo da Maia, which was not only the company's headquarters but also its namesake: Castelbel – beautiful castle.

Initially, Castelbel produced private labels for a New York department store, and later for Galeries Lafayette in Paris. The Castelbel name remained hidden. Since 2006, the Castelbel Ambiente series (Lavender, Rose, Verbena) has been available, and its success story began. The wonderful room fragrances in exquisite glass diffusers, exported from Portugal all over the world, have contributed greatly to this success.

A year later, the exclusive Portus Cale series followed, which, with its unique Portuguese product design, has found admirers not only with us but also in Dubai, South Africa, and Japan, and delights museum visitors in the washrooms of the Louvre in Paris.