We recently received a blog reply from Maria, who shared these Moroccan Beauty recipes with us. We want to thank her for her generosity, and time she took to post these. We believe these were originally in french, as we received this with some french words in them, which we translated. She sent this in without even being asked!! Thank you. Enjoy!
Maria’s Post
Enjoy this maks, they are all used by myself with great benefits
Face mask with ghassoul
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons of Ghassoul clay.
- 10 tsp of mineral water.
- 1 tbsp of argan oil.
- 1 or 2 tablespoons of youghurt
Mix the ingredients, apply on the face, and the neck. and let it act approximately 1 hour, then rinse with with tepid water
Masks with the rhassoul for dry skin
Ingredients:
- Mix 4 tablespoons of rhassoul
- with 2 tablespoons of argan oil,
- the pulp of an avocado
- Some drops of rose water
Mix 4 tablespoons of rhassoul, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tbsp lemon juice , bind them with a little water so as to obtain a soft and homogeneous paste. Let rest 15 minutes then rinse with tepid water. Your skin will be clear and bright.
Exfoliating with the rassoul. Take a little bit of dry oatmeal, and mix with rhassoul. To apply do so by lightly massaging onto your wet face. One can also wet the mixture, to apply to the skin and to wait until it dries before washing it all off. For the body, it better is to replace dry oatmeal with coarse sugar.
Argan to strengthen nails
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (or a few drops of lemon essential oil)
- 1 tablespoon Argan oil
Mix thoroughly , and wash hands. Soak the nails in the mixture of lemon juice and argan oil in equal parts, about 15 minutes at least once a week.
If your nails are brittle, repeat the process daily. You can reuse your preparation by keeping it in a clean flask and in a dry, cool area for a week.
Mask for swollen eyes
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon Argan oil
- 1 tablespoon green Tea powder
- 1 tablespoon of grounded dried roses
- 1 tablespoon Rose water (or mineral water)
Mix and apply on your closed eyelids with Pads.
By “gumming”, “gommage” I think she meant exfoliating. Very interesting recipes. Thanks for sharing!
Bonjour Marie! Thank you SO MUCH for that. I didn’t know that word meant exfoliating. I’ll change that in the blog. Yes they are interesting recipes. This woman is portuguese and lives in Morocco.
HEALTHY EXPRESS GHASSOUL SCALP MASKS
Basic recipe:
50 ml of ghassoul powder
1 egg yolk
Add to the ghassoul a few drop of tepid water, blend till the paste is smooth, and add the egg yolk.
Apply this preparation to your hair starting at the scalp and spreading until the hair extremities. let it dry for 15 minutes and then rinse abundantly.
For greasy hair, add to the basic recipe a tablespoon of lemon juice.
For dry hair, add to the basic recipe a tablespoon of argan oil or almond oil.
For enhancing a shiny chutney tone on dark hair, add to the basic recipe a coffee spoon of argan or almond oil and a tablespoon of henna.
TRADITIONAL HOME MADE MOROCCAN BEAUTY SECRETS FOR THE HAIR
My moroccan friends use to invite me for a “cup of tea” (mint tea), and this kind of events is really nice!
We speak about many matters, but the one I prefer is the exchange of home made beauty recipes, because most of them come from their grand mother great grand mothers (some of them still alive and looking great)
You can have different heir tones with henne and some other ingredients:eipts, history to vary the effects: – to obtain a dark colour châtain: Henné + water powders + bark of dried and ground grenadine – to obtain hair châtains with clear reflections: henné + water powders + a sachet of Nescafe + 1 egg yolk – to obtain russet-red hair: powders henné + water +poudre of Fez-native Aâkar el – to clear up your hair: henné + water powders + dried and ground flowers of camomile. After a colouring with henné, it is strongly disadvised, to make a colouring with ammonia: it sheaths the hair and prevents any other color from being fixed at it.
THE ART OF THE MOROCCAN MINT TEA
Mint tea known as atay bi nahna, is the national drink of Morocco, and is an integral part of Moroccan hospitality.
A steaming glass of the fragrant, sweet, light tea is offered as a sign of welcome. It is drunk in the morning; offered throughout the day while bargaining, conducting business, or wandering about; and
served at the end of the meal to aid digestion. Moroccans take great pride in their tea and will often ask a visitor who among their group of friends makes the best cup of mint tea.
A blend of Chinese gunpowder green tea and fresh mint, traditionally sweetened with at least four sugar lumps per glass, it is incredibly refreshing on a hot day.
Tea only arrived in Morocco in 1854 when, during the Crimean War, the blockade of the Baltic sea drove British merchants to seek new markets for their goods and they disposed of stocks of tea in Tangier and Mogador.
At feasts and on special occasions, mint tea making can be an elaborate ceremony: the best green tea is chosen and only fresh spearmint (mentha spicata) is used. A fine silver plated, bulbous teapot is selected for brewing, and the heavily sweetened tea is poured rhythmically into fine glasses. For additional ceremony, a fresh, fragrant orange blossom or jasmine flower may be floated in each glass.
Mint Tea
Serves 2
300ml (1/2 pint) water
5 tsp sugar
1 tsp green tea
6 springs of fresh mint (or 4 tablespoons of dried mint if you are not in Morocco, of course!).
1. Bring the water to the boil. Put the sugar and the green tea with fresh mint leaves (or the mint tea) in a
small traditional Moroccan teapot, and add the boiling water.
2. Leave to steep for 5 minutes, serve hot.
Mint tea is served with nice traditional cakes. Later, I’ll be posting here some tasty and easy recipes for your tea party.
Thanks for the amazing recipes!!
Do youby any chance have a recipe for homemade moroccan oil????
Julianne no we don’t have a homemade recipe for Argan Oil (which is the oil you refer to as Moroccan oil) as Argan nuts don’t grow in North America. But we do sell organically certified 100% pure argan oil from the Women’s Cooperative of Morocco. Please view here: http://www.hennasooq.com/organic-argan-oil/