Christmas Soap Peppermint

Peppermint Christmas soap from Portugal, clear and winter-fresh

The Peppermint Christmas soap from Castelbel is a hand-wrapped soap from Portugal, weighing 150 g, from the Christmas Sing-Along series. Cool and clear like fresh snow. Not a mass-produced item off the shelf, but hand-stamped and wrapped in printed sheet music.

Peppermint Christmas soap is a festively packaged scented soap from Castelbel Porto that smells clear and cool like fresh peppermint – as invigorating as the first snow of the year. The base of this 150 g soap from Portugal consists of vegetable oils. It comes from the Christmas Sing-Along series, whose paper sings a Christmas carol: "Have yourself a merry little Christmas."

Clear, cool, winter-fresh like snow

The Peppermint soap smells minty, fresh, and wintry, like cool peppermint and a breath of winter air, as bright as a morning in freshly fallen snow.

It is wrapped in fir-green paper with gold lettering and tied with a red-and-white cord. Attached to the ribbon is a ball-shaped tag depicting snowy fir trees and the words "Let your heart be light." The design is modern and clear, a fresh eye-catcher for the Christmas shelf, playful yet elegantly crafted.

The lines of the Christmas carol run across the paper, which you almost hum along to while unwrapping. Once you unwrap it, a pure white bar of soap is revealed, embossed with the Castelbel Porto lettering.

Under water, the bar creates a creamy, fine lather, and the clear mint scent lingers for a while on your hands and throughout the bathroom. A piece of winter you can hold.

A little serenade for gifting

The hand-wrapped Christmas soap is a fragrant little gift for the pre-Christmas season, a festive "Secret Santa" gift, or a fine surprise for an Advent calendar.

The tag has space for a name, making it a perfect place card for the Christmas dinner table. The bar feels pleasantly round in the hand, and the lather is creamy and mild. Place it in the guest bathroom, where it will leave the room softly scented with mint.

If you like, you can combine the three scents in the series—Peppermint, Cranberries, and Toffee Caramel—for a little Christmas concert in the bathroom. You can find more scented soaps and scented candles from Castelbel right next door.

Castelbel and the art of soap-making from Porto

The Portuguese soap brand Castelbel was founded in 1999 in Castêlo da Maia near Porto, where soap-making has a tradition spanning over 300 years.

Its founder was Aquiles Barros, a professor of chemistry and formerly of the traditional soap manufacturer Ach Brito. He focused on soaps based on 100% vegetable oils, with fine fragrances from Europe, hand-stamped and hand-wrapped, just as Aquiles Barros intended from the very beginning.

Since 2006, the soaps from the Ambiente series have carried this reputation as far as the washrooms of the Louvre in Paris, followed a year later by the elegant Portus Cale series. The Peppermint Christmas soap follows this line—affordable luxury for the holidays. That is what Christmas sounds like!

To keep the mint scent fresh

Place the soap on a draining dish between uses so it stays dry; this will make it last longer and lather until the very last bit. This way, the clear mint scent remains fresh until the end.

It makes a wonderful Secret Santa gift, a small holiday greeting, or a filler for a homemade Advent calendar. It is a quick and easy gift for colleagues, neighbors, or a godmother, with no extra gift wrap required. You can see more from the brand in the Castelbel Porto hub.