🇮🇹 Italy · Modern
Mud / Clay Massage (Fango)泥・粘土(ファンゴ)のマッサージ
Applying warmed thermal mud (Italian fango) or clay (Moroccan ghassoul) before manual work; a tradition of spa medicine.
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇲🇦 Morocco
- Era
- Modern
- Classification
- Spa treatment
- Techniques
- Heat / Herbal
- Practitioner body parts
- Palm / Thumb
- Medium
- Other
- Clothing
- Skin contact, draped
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Mud Massage · Clay Massage · Fango · Ghassoul wrap
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