Wutamu turns Comorian plants into hotel beauty products

Wutamu Comores develops soaps and personal-care products using local ingredients including ylang-ylang and turmeric. In 2026 it presented a product-development programme aimed at hotels, with refillable or reduced-plastic formats alongside locally made guest amenities.

Jihane Guy founded Wutamu in Moroni. The business works through the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie’s Destination Éco-Talents programme.

Hotels typically buy many guest products from overseas. Wutamu proposes a way to keep more of that spending in the Comoros while giving local plants, producers and cosmetic-making skills a commercial market.

Its development programme also includes training and reusable packaging plans. These are programme objectives, not reported completed outcomes.