Handmade using traditional cold-process techniques in Portland, Oregon, Arcana Soaps are some of the most interesting, wonderfully textured and delightful soaps we've ever found.

Ambrosia Soap Recipes for ambrosia, the magical food which bestowed eternal youth on the Greek gods, have long been lost. However, we have it on the best authority that this melding of fragrant honey, peaches, lemons, custard and coconut with oils of macadamia & sweet almond is divinely close. Price: £3.50

Burlesque Soap The sweet, smoky decadence of a bawdy dance hall, with bold amber, spicy chocolate and the warm wood of a well traveled stage. Enriched with more than enough cocoa butter & sweet almond oil to turn your daily grind into a bump and grind. Price: £3.50

Devilish Soap Shaking off vanilla’s unfair reputation for namby pambyness, this infernally dark & smoky soap comes complete with licks of fire and sulfurous wafts of brimstone, all the while lowering your inhibitions with deep Bourbon vanilla beans & velvety tussah silk. The devil really does have all the best scents. Price: £3.50

Herne Soap Horned trickster, lord of the forest, god of the wild hunt. Cassia cinnamon, Atlas cedarwood, fir needle oil, and a whiff of Herne's holy oak tree. Made with Fair Trade shea butter, exfoliating organic oats, and finely ground calendula petals. Price: £3.50

Mutiny Soap Tyrants be damned! The scent of discontent, broken ranks and open rebellion on the sea. Indonesian patchouli combines with black pepper, dark wood and a smoky haze of gunpowder. Price: £3.50

Pax Mundi Soap A prayerful ode to world peace. Smoky frankincense, bay laurel, myrtle pepper, peach nectar, myrrh, balsam of peru, Atlas cedarwood and gentle copaiba. Made with golden cocoa butter, avocado oil, coconut milk & Tussah peace silk. Price: £3.50

Romani Princess Soap Passionate, seductive and regal, with an unsettling mastery over strange divinations. Dark garnet grapes, burnt sugar, fir needle oil, iron-distilled patchouli, river water, dragon's blood extract, Fair Trade shea butter, coconut milk, and a swirl of amaranthine poppy seeds. Price: £6.00