27/09/2025
🌿 The Roots of Self-Care: From Hammams to Healing Touch 🌿 & new treatment in the works🤫
Today, self-care is often sold as a luxury. A spa day, a massage, a “treat” when we’ve earned it. But if we look back in history, self-care wasn’t an indulgence, it was a way of life.
Across cultures and centuries, people practiced rituals of cleansing, massage, and bodywork as part of everyday living:
💧 The Hammam (Morocco & Middle East)
When I visited Morocco in 2018, I saw how women regularly went to hammams — traditional bathhouses where you strip down completely to be deeply cleansed, scrubbed, massaged, and cared for (no worrying over covering up the other towels or blankets in this ritual!!) .There was no shame, just a shared ritual of purification. And I left totally energised and feeling amazing
🏺 The Roman & Greek Baths
For the Romans, healing wasn’t just a treatment but a lifestyle. Their bathhouses were temples of wellness — combining hot and cold therapies, herbal oils, massage, and community connection.
🌿 Ayurveda (India)
For thousands of years, Ayurveda has used massage with herbal oils as a cornerstone of wellbeing. It balances the body’s energies, strengthens immunity, and was practiced in homes, not just clinics.
🌸 Traditional Chinese Medicine
Massage techniques like Tui Na and therapies like cupping were everyday tools for keeping the body in balance — just as common as food or herbs.
What strikes me is that these practices weren’t occasional “treats.” They were woven into daily or weekly rhythms, often using natural oils&herbs
✨ Self-care wasn’t luxury. It was necessity. ✨
Maybe it’s time we return to these roots — choosing natural products, honouring ancient practices, and making space for rituals that nourish both body and soul. And this why I have always strived for the most natural and high quality products I can get my hands on! And it has got me thinking of a new ritual to offer in our little town that will as closely remind me to the ritual I experienced for myself in Morocco that opened my eyes to a self care ritual that should be used internationally 🌱