Wellness

Rituals that were never marketed as rituals

The hammam is a weekly appointment rather than a treat, and most of what sits in this category came out of it: black soap, clay, steam, oils, and the tea that is drunk afterwards. None of it was designed as self-care. It is simply what the week is built around.

We have kept the category deliberately small. Wellness is the easiest shelf in beauty to fill with things that do nothing, so anything here has to be either a real ingredient with a real history or an object you would genuinely use.