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Baobab Clay Oxygenating Cleanser

Baobab Clay Oxygenating Cleanser
African Botanics
Benefits
  • Plumping
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Regenerating
  • Scar-Repairing
  • Antioxidant
  • Hydrating
  • Fine Lines
  • Purifying
  • Detoxifying
  • Brightening
  • Anti-Bacterial
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Complexion-Unifying

Launching mid-October. Join the waitlist below.

The Baobab Clay Oxygenating Cleanser by African Botanics is a mineral-rich purifying cleanser that deeply cleanses, decongests and revitalises the skin, removing excess sebum, impurities and accumulated surface debris while refining texture and restoring clarity and luminosity.

Bentonite, Baobab Extract and Aloe Ferox form the cleanser’s purifying and replenishing complex. Mineral-rich Bentonite absorbs excess sebum and draws impurities from the skin, supporting clearer pores and a more refined texture. Antioxidant-rich Baobab Extract conditions and replenishes the skin, while Aloe Ferox provides soothing hydration to maintain skin comfort throughout cleansing.

Stabilised Vitamin C and Kigelia Fruit Extract target dullness, uneven tone and loss of vitality. Stabilised Vitamin C provides antioxidant protection while supporting a brighter, more luminous complexion. Kigelia Fruit Extract, naturally rich in flavonoids and phenolic compounds, supports firmness and elasticity while protecting the skin against oxidative stress.

African Potato completes the formula with soothing and antioxidant properties, calming the complexion while supporting skin resilience. Skin is left thoroughly cleansed, fresh and refined, with a smoother texture and renewed luminosity without feeling stripped or tight.

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Launching mid-October. Join the waitlist below.

The Baobab Clay Oxygenating Cleanser by African Botanics is a mineral-rich purifying cleanser that deeply cleanses, decongests and revitalises the skin, removing excess sebum, impurities and accumulated surface debris while refining texture and restoring clarity and luminosity.

Bentonite, Baobab Extract and Aloe Ferox form the cleanser’s purifying and replenishing complex. Mineral-rich Bentonite absorbs excess sebum and draws impurities from the skin, supporting clearer pores and a more refined texture. Antioxidant-rich Baobab Extract conditions and replenishes the skin, while Aloe Ferox provides soothing hydration to maintain skin comfort throughout cleansing.

Stabilised Vitamin C and Kigelia Fruit Extract target dullness, uneven tone and loss of vitality. Stabilised Vitamin C provides antioxidant protection while supporting a brighter, more luminous complexion. Kigelia Fruit Extract, naturally rich in flavonoids and phenolic compounds, supports firmness and elasticity while protecting the skin against oxidative stress.

African Potato completes the formula with soothing and antioxidant properties, calming the complexion while supporting skin resilience. Skin is left thoroughly cleansed, fresh and refined, with a smoother texture and renewed luminosity without feeling stripped or tight.

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For you if

  • Loss of Volume
  • Damaged Barrier
  • Wrinkles
  • Loss of Firmness
  • Hyperpigmentation
  • Fine Lines
  • Acne
  • Dull Skin
  • Reactive Skin

Suitable for

  • Reactive Skin
  • Acne-Prone Skin
  • Oily Skin
  • Balanced Skin
How to apply
Apply to damp skin and massage over the face, neck and décolleté using gentle circular movements. Rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.

Core Routine

  1. First Cleanse
  2. Second Cleanse
  3. Toner
  4. Hydrating Serum
  5. Targeted Serum
  6. Cream / Facial Oil

Extended Routine

  1. Eye Cleanse
  2. First Cleanse
  3. Second Cleanse
  4. Toner (Non-Exfoliating)
  5. Scrub
  6. Mask
  7. Hydrating Serum
  8. Targeted Serum
  9. Eye Care
  10. Cream / Facial Oil
  11. SPF
Ingredients
  • Baobab ExtractPlumping · Skin Barrier Strengthening · Anti-Wrinkle
    Baobab Extract is rich in vitamin C, B vitamins B3 & B6, amino acids, and polysaccharides. It stimulates fibroblast activity to increase collagen I and elastin production, reinforcing the skin’s structural support. Its polysaccharides form a hydrating, plumping film that enhances elasticity and suppleness, while antioxidants like vitamin C and polyphenols defend against oxidative damage and slow collagen breakdown. Together, these effects help firm, smooth, and lift the skin over time.
  • Aloe FeroxPlumping · Hydrating
    Rich in polysaccharides, amino acids, minerals and antioxidant compounds, Aloe Ferox delivers intensive hydration while supporting collagen synthesis and skin regeneration. It soothes irritation, reinforces the skin barrier and promotes a plumper, smoother and more resilient complexion.
  • BentonitePurifying · Detoxifying
    Bentonite is a clay which contains highly absorbent properties. It carries a powerful negative charge, which bonds to the positive charge in many toxins and impurities. This mechanism therefore allows it to absorb the toxins and impurities and eliminate them. Furthermore, this ingredient supplies the cells with oxygen by absorbing excess hydrogen. Bentonite is adept at purifying and detoxifying the skin without stripping it too much.
  • Stabilised Vitamin CPlumping · Antioxidant · Brightening
    Stabilised vitamin C is a chemically modified derivative of Vitamin C engineered to maintain potency and resist oxidation caused by exposure to light, heat, and oxygen, offering enhanced stability and controlled release into the skin. Once absorbed, they function as potent antioxidants, neutralising free radicals generated by UV radiation and pollution to prevent oxidative stress and premature cellular ageing. Stabilised vitamin C also inhibits tyrosinase activity, reducing melanin synthesis and promoting a more even, luminous skin tone. Additionally, it stimulates collagen synthesis by supporting fibroblast activity, improving skin firmness and elasticity over time. Because of their lower irritation potential and greater formulation stability, these forms are accepted by most skin types; including sensitive, acne-prone, or reactive skin.
  • Kigelia Fruit ExtractPlumping · Skin Barrier Strengthening · Anti-Wrinkle
    Kigelia Africana, sourced from the sausage-shaped fruit of the tree native to tropical Africa, is a botanical treasure celebrated for its extensive therapeutic and skincare benefits. Packed with bioactive compounds, this ingredient exhibits potent antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties, making it a versatile solution for various skin concerns. Its antimicrobial efficacy has been compared to modern antibiotics like penicillin and fluoroquinolones, highlighting its potential in managing infections. It has been used to treat a wide range of skin conditions, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, fungal infections, sunburn, and insect bites. In contemporary skincare, Kigelia Africana is prized for its ability to brighten and clarify the skin, improve firmness, and address signs of aging such as fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. Its rich antioxidant content combats free radical damage, which contributes to skin aging and uneven tone, while its phytosterols and iridoids provide soothing, anti-inflammatory effects that calm irritation and promote a balanced complexion. Additionally, this botanical aids in cell regeneration, leading to a smoother, more radiant appearance with consistent use. Kigelia Africana’s gentle yet effective nature makes it particularly well-suited for sensitive or inflammation-prone skin, offering a holistic approach to skincare that supports both repair and rejuvenation.
  • African PotatoPlumping · Photo-Protecting · Prevents Collagen Breakdown
    Hypoxis Rooperi is a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent wrinkles while protecting skin from pollution and UV damage. Its key compound, Hypoxoside, converts into Rooperol inside the skin, where it neutralises free radicals (unstable molecules that break down collagen and speed up ageing). By blocking this chain reaction, it acts as a shield that preserves the skin’s structure and slows visible ageing.
View full ingredient list

Aqua (Water), Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Coco Glucoside, Lauryl Glucoside, Glycerin (Vegetable), Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Fruit Powder, Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Seed Oil, Aloe Ferox (Aloe) Leaf Extract, Nylon-12 Fluorescent Brightener 230 Salt, Polyvinylalcohol Crosspolymer, Jasmine Officinale (Jasmine) Oil, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate (Vitamin C), Bentonite (White Clay), Hypoxis Hemerocallidea (African Potatoe) Extract, Citris Sinensis (Orange) Oil, Illicium Verum (Anise) Oil, Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Santalum Album (Sandalwood) Oil, Kigelia Africana Fruit Extract, Propanediol, Citric Acid, Parfum (Natural), Limonene, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.

Please note: The ingredients listed in this product are subject to change as the formulation is updated. We aim to update the INCI list as soon as possible, but we encourage you to read the ingredient list on the product itself to ensure it's suitable for your personal use.

Smell & Texture

Smell: Earthy Jasmine

Texture: Creamy cel

Delivery & Returns

UPS Ground: $10
(free for members on orders over $100)
Delivered within 1-5 working days.

UPS 3 Day Select: $15
Delivered within 1-3 working days.

UPS 2nd Day Air: $30
Delivered by the end of the second working day.

UPS Next Day Air Saver: $40
Guaranteed next-working-day delivery, typically by end-of-day.

UPS Next Day Air: $45
Guaranteed next-working-day delivery, typically by 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

RETURNS
Items returned by post can take up to 14 working days to process. Credit notes can be applied to your account within 5 working days. For refunds, we will reimburse you using your original payment method which can take up to 14 days.


The Benefits

  • - + Plumping
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
Plumping

Plumping involves using active ingredients to boost the production of key structural components like collagen, the dermal-epidermal junction and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), giving your skin more volume and density. Collagen provides structural support and firmness, while the dermal-epidermal junction, a thin connective layer, ensures smooth, wrinkle-free skin by facilitating cell communication. GAGs, like hyaluronic acid, keep your skin hydrated and plump from within. By stimulating these components, active ingredients help restore your skin's plumpness and radiance.

Skin Barrier Strengthening

Strengthening your skin barrier involves replenishing the key elements in the top layer of your skin (stratum corneum), leading to a stronger and healthier barrier. These essential elements include lipids (ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and Natural Moisturizing Factors (amino acids, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Various factors, such as incorrect skincare use, seasonal changes, and aesthetic treatments, can damage your skin barrier. When this happens, your skin loses excess water through Trans Epidermal Water Loss (T.E.W.L) and becomes less capable of defending against environmental stressors, resulting in dryness, sensitivity, and irritation.

A healthy skin barrier is crucial for overall skin health as it helps prevent hydration loss, protects against environmental damage, and reduces the risk of skin conditions like eczema and acne. By strengthening your skin barrier, you ensure your skin remains well-hydrated, resilient, and protected.

Anti-Wrinkle

Anti-wrinkle skincare is focused on both preventing and visibly reducing the formation of lines by targeting the structural and dynamic causes of wrinkles within the skin. Deeper wrinkles develop as collagen and elastin decline, cell turnover slows and repeated facial movements create creases that become etched over time. Advanced formulations address these mechanisms through a combination of elastin-stimulating actives, smoothing peptides that relax the appearance of expression lines. By reinforcing the skin’s architecture while softening surface contractions and improving elasticity, anti-wrinkle skincare delivers a visibly smoother complexion.

Firming & Lifting

Firming & Lifting skincare is designed to restore strength, structure, and definition to the skin, creating a visibly tighter, more sculpted appearance. As the skin loses collagen and elasticity over time, it can begin to soften and sag, losing its natural contours. Advanced formulations work to rebuild this support from within—boosting firmness while helping to visibly lift and redefine the skin. The result is a smoother, more toned complexion with enhanced bounce and resilience, where facial contours appear sharper and elevated.

Regenerating

Regenerating skincare actively stimulates the formation of new, healthier skin, working in alignment with the skin’s innate renewal processes. Central to this are growth factors—effectively encouraging the development of new skin tissue. Peptides complement this by acting as targeted messengers guiding the skin to rebuild with greater strength and structural integrity. Stem cell–derived actives further support this environment by delivering protective and regenerative signals that optimize cellular function and renewal. While these mechanisms are synonymous with advanced anti-ageing—improving firmness, elasticity and overall skin quality—they are equally valuable in addressing scarring, as they promote tissue repair, accelerate regeneration and help restore a smoother, more even skin surface.

Scar-Repairing

Anti-Scarring skincare targets the textured scars left by acne breakouts. These scars form due to inflammation disrupting collagen and elastin fibres leading to uneven healing and indented areas. Anti-Scarring actives harness growth factors and exfoliating actives to stimulate cell repair and regeneration, optimising the skin's healing process to reduce scar formation. They also effectively diminish older scars, improving overall skin texture and leaving you with a smoother complexion and significantly reduced scar visibility.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant skincare is dedicated to protecting the skin against oxidative stress—one of the primary drivers of premature ageing and cellular damage—while preserving overall skin integrity and vitality. These formulations rely on potent molecules such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and polyphenols, which neutralize free radicals generated by UV exposure and environmental aggressors before they can compromise cellular structures like lipids, proteins, and DNA. Beyond defence, many antioxidants also support repair processes and enhance collagen stability, contributing to improved firmness, brightness and resilience. The result is skin that is not only shielded from ongoing damage but maintained in a healthier, more luminous state over time.

Hydrating

Hydration is a fundamental part of healthy skincare, focusing on maintaining and restoring the skin’s water content. Well-hydrated skin appears plump, smooth and radiant, while dehydration can lead to dullness, tightness, fine lines and increased sensitivity.
Hydrating the skin can work through a fascinating mix of ingredients with different roles. Humectants like hyaluronic acid and glycerin act like water magnets, pulling water into the skin to instantly plump and smooth, while Natural Moisturizing Factors (NMFs)—such as urea, amino acids and sodium PCA—mimic the skin’s own hydration system, helping it hold onto water and stay balanced from within.
Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

Purifying

Purifying skincare is designed to deeply cleanse and decongest the skin by targeting excess oil at its source—within the pores. Rather than simply removing surface shine, these formulations work to dissolve and dislodge sebum, debris, and impurities trapped inside the pore lining, helping to prevent congestion, blackheads, and breakouts. Actives such as exfoliating acids and oil-regulating ingredients penetrate into the pore to effectively “strip out” excess oil, restoring clarity and refining skin texture. By clearing buildup from within, purifying treatments leave the skin feeling exceptionally clean, balanced and visibly smoother.

Detoxifying

Detoxifying skincare focuses on clearing the skin of accumulated pollutants, toxins, and metabolic waste that can dull the complexion and disrupt healthy function. Daily exposure to environmental aggressors such as pollution and oxidative stress can overwhelm the skin, leading to congestion, imbalance, and premature ageing. Advanced detoxifying formulations work to neutralise these impurities, support the skin’s natural elimination processes, and reduce the buildup of harmful particles within pores and on the surface. By restoring clarity and balance, this approach leaves the skin feeling purified, refreshed and visibly brighter.

Brightening (Energising)

Brightening skincare involves using active ingredients to boost your blood circulation, detoxification and cellular energy. Improved blood circulation brings more essential nutrients and oxygen to your skin, while detoxification helps eliminate cell waste and impurities that can make your skin look dull. Certain active ingredients also enhance your skin's metabolism and regeneration. These combined actions restore your skin's vitality and radiant appearance, giving you a fresh, energised complexion.

Anti-Bacterial

Anti-bacterial action targets and inhibits the growth of bacteria on your skin's surface. Anti-bacterial ingredients work by disrupting essential bacterial processes like cell wall synthesis or protein production, reducing the risk of skin infections and inflammation. They are especially effective for treating acne by controlling the acne-causing bacteria known as Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes). This anti-bacterial action helps diminish imperfections, prevent new breakouts, and reduce irritation, giving you clearer, healthier skin.

Anti-Inflammatory

Anti-Inflammatory skincare soothes, heal, and balance your skin, the targeted actives are designed to reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your body's natural response to injury or irritation, but continuous inflammation can lead to troublesome skin conditions like acne, rosacea, or eczema. Our anti-inflammatory skincare solutions work to soothe and calm your skin, reducing redness, swelling, and discomfort to provide much-needed relief. By strengthening your skin's barrier, these products help protect against further irritation and damage. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory actives support your skin's natural healing processes, leading to a more balanced and resilient complexion.

Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)

Evening skin tone is all about reducing blotchiness and achieving a more uniform complexion. Skincare products designed for this purpose use a blend of active ingredients, including soothing agents, anti-pigmentation compounds, antioxidants, and skin-restoring elements. These ingredients work together to diminish redness, inflammation, and pigment irregularities caused by inflammation, while also strengthening and protecting your skin against environmental irritants and future damage. This promotes healing and resilience, leaving your skin more balanced, radiant, and beautiful.

Photo-Protecting

Photo-protecting skincare at a cellular level focuses on defending the skin against the internal damage triggered by UV exposure, rather than simply blocking rays at the surface. Ultraviolet radiation generates free radicals and disrupts cellular DNA, accelerating collagen breakdown, inflammation, and premature ageing. Advanced formulations work by neutralising oxidative stress, supporting DNA repair mechanisms, and strengthening the skin’s natural defence systems to limit long-term damage. By preserving cellular integrity and maintaining healthy skin function, this approach helps prevent visible signs of photo-ageing—such as wrinkles, loss of firmness, and uneven tone.

Prevents Collagen Breakdown

By preventing collagen breakdown (Collagenase), you preserve your skin's firmness and elasticity. Inhibiting the enzymes that degrade collagen helps maintain the skin's structural integrity, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This promotes a firmer, more lifted complexion. The result is resilient, plump skin that defies the signs of ageing, keeping you looking youthful and radiant.

  • - + Plumping
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown

Why I love it

  • "We love African Botanics for the way it makes botanical skincare feel genuinely luxurious. The textures are beautiful, the formulas sophisticated and the results impressive, with exceptional African ingredients at the heart of every product. It’s indulgent skincare that never compromises on performance."

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty