Posting season is upon us and some of the friends I have made here over the past year are leaving :( There are a few of us who go out for lunch on a monthly or so basis and since some are leaving and it was a friend's birthday we decided to do something different this time. We had lunch as usual but before that we all went for a hammam.
A hammam is a Moroccan spa treatment. It is like a wrap, cleanse, massage and exfoliation all in one!
It started with all of us getting down to our bikini bottoms only and going into a common room with high ceilings, cream marble benches and so much wonderful eucalyptus smelling steam! They have us sit on little wooden stools as they pour hot eucalyptus water over us with old wooden buckets. After a thorough saturation they have us lie on the marble benches where they cover us top to bottom and front to back in a black soap intended to soften the dead skin on your body. They let us sit in it for about 5 minutes or so and then rinse it all off with the hot eucalyptus water again with the wooden buckets. After that they put on their hammam gloves (a scratchy mitt that they wear very similar to the Renaissace glove that can be found at spa's in Canada) and proceed to slough the dead skin off your body. Top to bottom, front and back. Let me tell you they got it all!!!
After the scrubbing they rinse you off again and soap up your body with the most wonderful smelling soap, they wash your hair and take a pumice stone to your feet. Once you are all squeaky clean they get you a toasty robe and you go have Moroccan tea and cookies smelling and feeling wonderful.
After all that we went for massages and then out for our lunch, smelling like grapefruit oil in my case. It was a great day and the best part of it? My skin has never been this soft and I don't feel the heat nearly as much as before. I will be going back!
A hammam is a Moroccan spa treatment. It is like a wrap, cleanse, massage and exfoliation all in one!
It started with all of us getting down to our bikini bottoms only and going into a common room with high ceilings, cream marble benches and so much wonderful eucalyptus smelling steam! They have us sit on little wooden stools as they pour hot eucalyptus water over us with old wooden buckets. After a thorough saturation they have us lie on the marble benches where they cover us top to bottom and front to back in a black soap intended to soften the dead skin on your body. They let us sit in it for about 5 minutes or so and then rinse it all off with the hot eucalyptus water again with the wooden buckets. After that they put on their hammam gloves (a scratchy mitt that they wear very similar to the Renaissace glove that can be found at spa's in Canada) and proceed to slough the dead skin off your body. Top to bottom, front and back. Let me tell you they got it all!!!
After the scrubbing they rinse you off again and soap up your body with the most wonderful smelling soap, they wash your hair and take a pumice stone to your feet. Once you are all squeaky clean they get you a toasty robe and you go have Moroccan tea and cookies smelling and feeling wonderful.
After all that we went for massages and then out for our lunch, smelling like grapefruit oil in my case. It was a great day and the best part of it? My skin has never been this soft and I don't feel the heat nearly as much as before. I will be going back!
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