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Click here for our Blog >Welcome to Camamu!
Welcome to Camamu, home to deliciously nourishing, rejuvenating, healing and all natural body care products. Made from scratch in small batches, everything we do at Camamu is done 'by hand, with heart'. Thank you for your interest in and support of Camamu!
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Visit product page →Skin strengthening and reparative.Gotu kola, Centella asiatica, is regarded as a highly spiritual plant in India. Taken internally for a wide range of benefits, externally it also serves many functions. It strengthens and improves skin tone by stimulating collagen production, is anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial and works to decrease both scarring and cellulite. Combined with the immensely restorative, nourishing and healing properties of argan oil, this is a soap whose praises we just can't sing highly enough. Scented with mood elevating clary sage, cananga and bay essential oils, it soothes the soul while repairing the skin.Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm and argan oils; infused with organic gotu kola.Available as 115 gm/4 oz bar. 100% natural, gluten free & vegan. -
Visit product page →Oil beyond compare.Argan oil, aka Liquid Gold, provides profound skin care benefits. Protein rich, full of anti-oxidants and carotenoids, argan oil boosts the skin's elasticity, protects against premature aging, reduces skin irritations and regulates the secretion of sebum, making it an excellent oil for both dry and oily skin. The fresh goat's milk we use provides deep nourishment and moisturizing while its alpha hydroxyl acids help the skin to shed its top layer of dead cells. For added benefit, we use local honey which acts as a humectant, attracting moisture to the skin as well as promoting gentle healing. We don't believe enough is ever really enough and so have added a restorative and regenerative essential oil blend; sweet orange, amyris sandalwood, geranium, cedar and frankincense balance, soothe and restore the skin.Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm and argan oils; fresh, organic goat's milk; local honey.4 oz/115 gm. 100% natural & gluten free. -
Visit product page →Baby your baby... and yourself.Our toxin-laden environment is of major concern for parents. It has also become challenging to many people who find themselves sensitized and reactive to scents as well as the myriad chemical additives used in body care products. Camamu's Baby Balm Soap is for those, young and old, who want a purely natural, uncomplicated product. Unscented, enriched with a wealth of richly moisturizing shea butter, avocado & sweet almond oils and infused with a strong tea of skin-healing organic calendula, this is the perfect soap for babies and sensitive souls of any age.Less, so often, is more!Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm, shea butter, avocado & sweet almond oils; infused with organic calendula; unscented.Available as 115 gm/4 oz or bulk bar. 100% natural, gluten free & vegan. -
Visit product page →Detoxifying loveliness.Activated charcoal binds to toxins, dirt and grime deep cleaning the pores and surface of the skin. Our Black Beauty Soap, full of detoxifying activated charcoal and swirled with kaolin clay which helps absorb surface oils and condition the skin, is also an excellent anti-acne soap. We augment this soap's detoxifying properties with an essential oil blend of juniper berry, clary sage, lemongrass and gingergrass which help rebalance the skin, clear and tone pores and energize skin and psyche. This soap leaves the skin feeling silky smooth and is not at all drying. Beautiful indeed!Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm, apricot kernel & aloe oils;activated charcoal & kaolin clay.Available as 115 gm/4 oz or bulk bar. 100% natural, gluten free & vegan. -
Visit product page →The equivalent of ten bars of soap, our bulk soaps weigh nearly 3 pounds and offer great value and lots and lots of soapy Camamu goodness. We have a vast variety of soap available as bulk bars. They're all listed on the drop down menu above the quantity box. If there's one you want and don't see on the list, please give a call or email us. We might have what you want tucked aside.This is a great way to buy soap for presents or for nearly year-long use. What a relief to never have to worry about running out of Camamu! -
Visit product page →Luminously reparative.We love calendula. In our gardens it bursts with yellow-orange light, radiating its healing heart, hardily filling gaps between other plants and dropping its curved tan seeds for another year's bountiful harvest. As a skin care agent, calendula has few equals. It heals abrasions, moisturizes, reduces scarring, and soothes inflammations and chapped skin. Our Calendula Sun Soap combines an infusion of organic calendula with quenching base oils and a skin rebalancing and rejuvenating essential oil blend of geranium, sweet orange and clove. The result is a sun-burst of healing energy that soothes, heals and rebalances dry and damaged skin.Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm & castor oils;organic calendula infusion & calendula flowers; annatto powder.Available as 115 gm/4 oz or bulk bar. 100% natural, gluten free & vegan. -
On saleVisit product page →Skin-brightening Goodness.Camamu's Camaccino Soap offers a brimming cup of skin-goodness. Loaded with freshly brewed organic coffee and scented with richly warming, spirit-uplifting essential oils of cinnamon, myrrh, balsam peru, sweet orange and cardamom, this soap is topped with a creamy layer of soap with kaolin clay added. Coffee has a number of skin-care benefits. It helps to brighten the skin as the acids in coffee remove dead skin cells that dull the skin. It also helps to prevent clogged pores, softens lines and is an anti-inflammatory that exfoliates and smooths the skin. This soap is made with cocoa butter for deep hydration and nourishment while kaolin clay offers conditioning and gentle cleansing of pores. Your skin will drink this soap up!Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm & cocoa butter oils; organic freshly brewed coffee; kaolin clay; essential oils of cinnamon, myrrh, balsam peru, sweet orange & cardamom.Available as 115gm/4oz and bulk bar. 100% natural, gluten free & vegan. -
On saleVisit product page →Hemp seed oil & goat's milk extravaganza!A longtime customer asked us to make a soap combining hemp seed oil with goat's milk; Lance, this one's for you! All the rich, essential fatty acid-laden nourishment of hemp seed oil combines with fresh, raw goat's milk for a skin feeding par excellence. With the same pH as the skin, goat's milk also contains alpha hydroxyl acids which gently remove dead cells from the surface of the skin resulting in skin clarity and radiance. We've added a swirl of green clay for absorption of excess surface oils and have scented this soap with a crisp, energizing blend of anti-microbial thyme, sweet orange and neroli essential oils. This is a great soap for acne troubled skin or for those of you who like an antibacterial hand soap without all the bad chemicals.Made from: olive, coconut, RSPO-certified palm and hemp seed oils; fresh goat's milk; green clay.115gm/4oz. 100% natural & gluten free.
From the Blog
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June 21, 2017
Creative Juices
hello.
Camamu Soap is excited to announce its new owners, Stuart Bailey and Anca Bailey.
We’re a husband and wife team committed to green living, and continuing the ethos and mission of creating natural 100% organic skin care products through artisanal techniques.
In case you wondered, we will continue to produce and carry ALL of the original soaps designed by the creator of Camamu, Lori Basson, as well as keep raising the bar and expanding our 100% natural, gluten-free and vegan products for skin and haircare.Stay tuned.
a little about Stu . . .
One of the few “natives” left in PDX, super creative and a futurist, somewhat of a renaissance man being a mixed media artist, and corporate creative who loves to cook, play guitar, jump off deep snow cornices in 19 degree weather, and invent things. When he’s in the garden, where their two zany dogs, Frankie and Mika play and talk for hours about squirrels and frisbee, his wicked sense of humor and general goof-ball ways unleash.
& a little about Anca…
Romanian by descent, her path took her through Germany, Washington D.C, the Bay Area and finally, yup finally to Portland. She’s a former psychotherapist, whose creative interests are boundless: painting, drawing, collage, encaustic, print-making, textile design, creating whimsical lamps and then.. she loves to sew, felt, weave, and make magical organic potions from herbs and essential oils. When she’s done with that, it comes as no surprise she’s wildly creative in the kitchen too. Oh, one last item Anca invented —the 48 hour clock — why? Well, she’s is currently pursuing her certification in Organic Skin and Hair Care formulation.
wowza!
If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by the > studio and shop.
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January 24, 2017
Happy 2017!
We hope that you all have had a wonderful holiday season and a love-filled start to the New Year. We are finally settled down here in Portland after an unusual snow-turn-to-ice storm that shut the city down for the better part of a week.
The soap wheel kept turning and now here we are, close to the end of January with Valentine's Day just around the corner. Heart soaps anyone? We have pocketfuls so don't hesitate to order and show yourself or someone else some good, clean loving!
Happy days!
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December 17, 2016
The nature of small businesses.
Owning a small, artisan business is a lot of work. There are endless things to do and sometimes it feels like a never-ending slog. But, there is a reason for what we do, a joy and satisfaction that comes from keeping old traditions alive, from making a product that satisfies its users on many levels and, most importantly, from helping people, in small ways, have a better life. We recently received this message from a customer and wanted to share it with you.
"I continue to be amazed by your shampoos! I have struggled with an itchy, dry scalp and dandruff since I was 8 years old. It was a huge source of frustration and embarrassment for me growing up. Even in my adult years, I would itch my scalp to the point of blood. I have tried every over-the-counter and medicated shampoo and cream there is and had minimal success and/or relief. This all changed about six months ago when my neurologist was giving me an occipital nerve block and commented how dry and red my scalp was. He then told me about your shampoos that he had just discovered himself. I now cannot live without your shampoos.
Thank you for being an answer to years of prayer and a soothing relief to the dryness, itchiness, and self-consciousness. Thank you!!"This is what makes it all worthwhile. Thank you for being a part of Camamu. We wish you all a magical holiday season, filled with love, blessings and best wishes for the new year ahead.
Your friends at Camamu.
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November 15, 2016
Looky looky!
There's more holiday goodness available at Camamu!That's right, along with the three different chunks of skin goodness, we've also got our star and tree soaps back. Annual favorites, these soaps are packaged in kraft boxes with original artwork labels and make thoughtful, useful holiday gifts. Made by hand, with so much heart, we hope you'll enjoy these aromatherapeutic beauties!
