🇲🇦 Morocco · Traditional
Moroccan Hammamモロッコ式ハマムالحمام المغربي
The Maghreb hammam sequence of black soap, kessa glove, ghassoul clay and argan oil; the source of global spa products since the 1990s.
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇲🇦 Morocco
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Traditional massage / Spa treatment
- Techniques
- Steam / Water / Tool / Herbal
- Practitioner body parts
- Palm / Thumb
- Medium
- Other
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Bath / water
- Also known as
- Kessa glove scrub · Savon beldi (black soap) ritual · Argan oil massage
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Related forms and lineages
Related reference entry: Hammam (Turkish and Moroccan Bath Massage)
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Hammam (Turkish and Moroccan Bath Massage)
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The hammam is the steam bath-house that developed in the Islamic world from the Roman and Byzantine public baths, and the sequence of body care performed there. In the Turkish form, the tellak (bath attendant) scrubs the skin with a coarse kese mitt and kneads the whole body in foam (köpük) on a heated marble platform (göbek taşı). The Moroccan form uses black soap (savon beldi), a kessa glove, ghassoul clay and argan oil. It carries both the religious meaning of purification and the role of a social gathering place.
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