Gifts and souvenirs Charente-Maritime

This soap factory, located in the heart of the Ile de Ré, is easy to get to thanks to its roadside parking. Just step inside and you'll be charmed by the enchanting scents and beautifully decorated store. This is your chance to stock up on beauty products made from donkey's milk. Rich in vitamins and enriched with shea butter, the soaps are sold plain or scented, in solid or liquid form. You'll also find care and massage oils.

Like the fleur de sel, soap is one of the emblematic products of the island of Ré. During the visit of the Baleines lighthouse, you can easily go to this soap factory. The store is recognizable by its stuffed donkey, but it is inside that you will find all the secrets of soap making. Visit the soap factory every Monday and Tuesday morning (from April to September). You can find the famous organic donkey milk soap.

In the Fort Vauban, this magnificent boutique has been open for over 20 years. It specialises in mineral stones and shells. Here you can find stones, @, minerals, shells, fossils, stone jewelry, even memories of Fort Boyard… that you can bring back to memory or offer to loved ones. The owner travels around the world to meals the rarest and most spectacular stones. Each year she creates a theme with her finest pieces and exposes them to her store.

This is one of the stores that you must visit! It is dedicated to the donkey, this animal that is well known by the people of Rétais and that still walks young and old. While strolling around, you will see a stuffed animal that indicates the entrance of the shop. We appreciate the warm welcome and the perfumes that make you want to buy one of the soaps. The quality is not lacking, it must be said that the family business has been making organic donkey milk soaps for 20 years.

Loix has a particular link with the one that is still called the white gold. If you wish to flavour your dishes with fleur de sel, you can go to this store which works only with salt from the island of Ré. Several stores are located in the villages of Ré, including the one in Ars, which manufactures salt-based food products and cosmetics based on sau-fine (concentrated seawater enriched and harvested in the summer in the salt marshes): scrubs, anti-wrinkle creams... The products are available for sale online.

The island of Ré lends itself to strolling, offering an alternation of landscapes between beaches and vineyards. In the heart of the villages with white houses, small stores are hidden, highlighting local products. This is the case of this soap factory, a family business that has been making organic donkey milk soaps and cosmetics for 20 years. The welcome is pleasant, the advice interesting allowing to find the product of his choice among a very wide range of soaps.

Nathalie Landeau has fallen under the charm of the fouta, this colourful cotton canvas which serves as a towel in oriental baths. Since then, she has been importing these traditional paintings that she makes from her plans by a craftsman on a former loom. Nathalie brings his personal touch to the ancestral models by selecting a variety of colours, with brightly colored pastel tones. There are a little more than models in many soft of blue, green, yellow, pink… Some models are also scratched, tree or lights. In addition to the traditional fouta (1 m x 2 m), Nathalie created models of various dimensions (2 m x 2 m, 2 m x 3 m, etc.) to be able to adapt them in plaid, bed jetty or sofa, tablecloths, etc. Four different tissages are proposed, as well as a version "of luxury", of silk and linen.