Soft soap, a single and major care

Soft soap, a single and major care
Mistresses in the art of magnifier their skin, the Moroccan women of the area of Essaouira inherited a secrecy of beauty of their ancestors. This secrecy is contained in a vegetable and natural paste containing olive cores which one names the soft soap. Its perfume suave and its elastic texture call instantaneously with all the Morrocans the magic universe of the hammam.

Wrapped soft soap then delicately rubbed with a glove, the body is released from all its impurities. Protected by the olive oil, the skin is
exfoliée carefully. The salts and oil contained in the soap create a synergy which returns the gumming to the absolutely perfect soft soap. The grain
is refined, the dye is more luminous and the skin becomes as soft as velvet.

Gumming of the body to the soft soap
Under the shower or in your bath-tub, apply a generous soft soap share to your wet skin. Make foam with a little warm water and rub your body by carrying out circular motions using a vegetable sponge. Rinse carefully and dry you. In conclusion of this exfoliant and hydrating care, apply an oil of pink for a glossed aspect.

Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity
Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity

Scented soft soap
Scent your soft soap by adding some essential oil drops of eucalyptus for a reinvigorating effect or some essential oil drops
of lavender for a relaxing effect.

Soap of alep, an infinite softness
Without equal purifying and invigorating the skins even most delicate, the soap of Alep is a dermatological bread which owes primarily its virtues with the bay oil of bay-tree and the olive oil. Ancestor of the household soap, it comes as its name indicates it of Alep, a town of Syria.
One obtains it by cooking olive oil, ashes of plants and water. At the end of several days of cooking, one adds to the paste a bay oil of bay-tree which will get a very refreshing odor to him. Spread out then cut out, dry paste with the sun almost a whole year. This receipt remained unchanged since Antiquity. The Syrian women appreciate the soap of Alep as much for the vivifying pleasure which its perfume gets that its longevity for their daily toilet.

Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity
Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity

Care softness with the soap of Alep
It is used in shampoo once per week to treat the pellicular states and under the shower as a normal soap if you have a sensitive skin or if you suffer from problems of skin.

Mask purifying and softening for mixed skins
Take the advice of the Syrian women who wet the soap, rub the hands, apply the foam of the end of the fingers to a wet face and let it make its effect an any short minute. Nourishing, softening thanks to the disinfectant and olive oil thanks to the bay-tree which it contains, it can be used by all the types of skins.

A perfume for the linen
Slip of the pieces of soap of Alep into your cupboards and closets to protect your linen from the mites or to keep your clothing with the expenses.

Clay for a luminous skin
A fine layer of ghassoul is enough to gloss its hair and to make its skin bright. The Berber women of the Atlas, a mountainous solid mass which extends from Morocco in Tunisia, know well the properties of this clay mouthful of sun and flavors. Avicenne, celebrates it doctor and Arab philosopher, praised of them splendors and quite front him them Egyptiens – as certain papyruses attest it.

Sold on the stalls of markets in the shape of shelf or powder, this clay contains many minerals which confer its admirable virtues to him. Mixed with plants like the jasmine in Tunisia or the petals of pink in Morocco, the ghassoul is famous for its great softness.

Excellent to cleanse the skin and the scalp, the ghassoul absorbs toxins instantaneously, controls the secretion of sebum naturally and stimulates the blood circulation.

Body cataplasms with the ghassoul
Water the ghassoul in water while mixing with your fingers. You will feel that the ghassoul inflates and ends up forming a soft and almost sparkling mixture. To the hammam, the ghassoul applies to all the body, the face and the hair after a gumming. It is not no need to put a large quantity.
Apply to the body by carrying out circular motions to clean like a soap.
Preserve envelopment ten minutes and let act while remaining lengthened in the drying oven of the hammam. Rinse with fresh water.
At home, the ghassoul applies like a gel shower or a shampoo.
It is enough to be rinsed with running water.
After only one application, you will note that your skin is clear, soft, and that your hair gained in volume and brightness.

aromatic baths, a bracket of happiness
One a long time allotted to association plants and water a quasi miraculous capacity. In the tomb of Toutankhamon, one discovered ointments containing of the lavender and the oliban. But the aromatic plants were used especially for amusing activities because the Egyptian people took pleasure to mass gasolines scented after a hot bath and an exfoliation. Alleviating, detoxifier, regenerating or releasing, the aromatic bath enjoys since Antiquity the favors greatest civilizations and the eminent doctors.

To start your day or to finish it, a decorated hot bath of some Eastern essential oil drops is enough to transform this ritual of beauty into a pure moment of pleasure.

To metamorphose its bathroom in spa
Make run a hot bath, the ideal temperature being 37° or 38°. If you like the filtered light, light one or two candles and lay out them around the bath-tub. You can also make burn on a coal some pinches of storax of Turkey, a vegetable resin which releases a purifying flavor. When your bath is ready, add some essential oil drops.

• For an alleviating bath, add 8 drops of néroli + 4 drops of pink + 4 drops of lavender to the water of the bath.
• For a bath detoxifier, add 4 drops of myrtle + 3 drops of eucalyptus + 4 drops of néroli to the water of the bath.
• For a regenerating bath, add 5 drops of pink + 5 drops of jasmine to the water of the bath.

Slip into water délicieusement hot and gently disperse oil using your hands. The effect is immediate. The subtle odor which emerges from essential oils titillates you the nostrils and desire gives you for breathing with full lungs. You leave enivrer and to rock!

Steam bath purifying with the plants
Before carrying out a gumming or applying a mask scaling, offer to your skin an aromatic steam bath. Make boil in one liter of water a branch of thyme, a handle of flowers of lavender and vervain.
Withdraw fire, place your face over and let the vapor disperse by covering you with a towel. Remain thus five to ten minutes by relaxing you.

the mud and died marine salt, benefits of nature
According to the legend, king Solomon made offer to the Queen of Sheba muds and marine salt Morte, celebrated for their cosmetic and therapeutic virtues.
As nowhere elsewhere, this place offers in abundance natural resources which return health and beauty to the body and the spirit. Marine salt Morte have a function purifying, oxygenating and tranquillizing. They stimulate the cellular renewal, which makes them particularly effective for the problems of skin. Muds of the Dead Sea, a sediment of black color rich suffers from it, silica and other minerals, purifies, revitalizes and invigorates the skin.

Bath with marine salt Dead
Salts are used very simply by pouring 100 ml of salts in a hot bath. Stir up to make dissolve salts and release you in the bath
thirty minutes. The relaxation is immediate.

Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity
Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity

You can also take baths of feet with marine salt Morte by filling a basin with warm water and by dissolving a salt handle there. The whole body benefits from this cleansing and relaxing bath of feet.

Envelopment with muds of the Dead Sea
It applies out of cataplasm to all the body. To benefit from the purifying benefits of mud, whether it is under the shower or in the bath-tub,
apply it to the skin while smoothing everywhere on the body. Let dry a good score of minutes and rinse.

Incenses, resins, oils purifying, a charm envoutant and enveloping
In the volutes of the incense hide the beneficial djinns. You point out the genius of the magic lantern of Aladdin who appears in a cloud of smoke and exauce all the wishes. Since unmemorable times, one lends to the resins and the incenses supernatural virtues.

Today still, in the Maghreb and the Middle East, the fumigations release from the sensual fragrances which agreeably scent the body and clothing, and create a magic circle around the women in search of purity and interior beauty. The white trails which disperse in the atmosphere invite to the meditation and the wellbeing.
In North Africa, at the time of the ritual festivals, circumcision, engagement, marriage, the incense burns all the night, mixed with hot scents and comforting musk and of ambergris.

Scents of happiness
Benzoin, myrrh, oliban… the resins and the rare plants of the countries of Thousand and One Nights which made so much dream the travellers find today at all the herbalists and markets of the Maghreb and the Middle East.
In the shape of small stones, sheets and flowers, one makes them burn on sand, embers, pastilles of coal or in a burn-perfume.

Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity
Secrecies of beauty D the East: The research of the purity

Take care to bring the smoke which they release towards you, as if you wish to impregnate yourselves some and let the magic operate:

Myrrh
This resin which a tortuous shrub of the desert grounds exudes releases a camphorated, sensual and cordial perfume. Very often used in the religious traditions, it has a powerful calming action. The Magi would have offered this resin to Jesus.

Benzoin or balsam of Mecque
This resin of benzoin is sold today in the form of small stones or of powder. Its odor approaches that the vanilla and its aspect of the white chocolate. One collects this resin starting from the incisions made on the storax, a tree originating in India. The word benzoin derives from Arabic luban djawi who means “incense of Java”. The resin has purifying and aromatic properties very important. Is used it to call upon the chance.

The oliban
Used by all the religious traditions, this resin comes from a crowned tree which pushes in Africa, in Yemen and in India. It is the universal incense of the Bible. It has a capacity of purification and supports the meditation.

The eucalyptus
Originating in Australia, this tree was acclimatized in Asia and in the Mediterranean basin, in particular in Algeria. One makes boil his sheets in water or burn some drops of his oil to purify the air of a pièceet to look after respiratory problems and puffs of heat. The Algerian Gasoline, marketed in 1905, owes its name with the Algerian mode which seized Paris at last century. It contains a mixture of eucalyptus, mint and gaïac. Our grandmothers used it to relieve congestion.

Lavender
This aromatic sub-shrub with the flowers blue-purple has miles virtues. Originating in the Mediterranean basin, the lavender is cultivated today everywhere in the world. This plant with the floral and fresh notes is disinfectant, relaxing, antibactérienne…