Beauty shopping in Africa
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Parfumerie Medina
The knowledgeable owner Rachid Ouedrhiri will explain all about the perfumes, cosmetics and essential oils he stocks in his small stall in the Henna Souk, off Talaa Kebira and if you've always hankered after arabesques swirling of henna, here's the ideal place. The henna artist applies the mixture while you relax under the plane tree in the Henna Souk, off Talaa Kebira. She charges around DH30 for a finger-and-wrist design, or around DH200 for the full treatment of hands, forearms and feet.
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Linéaire B Cosmetics
Flowery descriptions in French effusively promise therapeutic effects from organic local ingredients and superconcentrated essential oils here. Basics such as savon noir (black soap) cost three times what they might in the Rahba Qedima, but the speciality items are worth the premium: rich argan oil balm scented with jasmine, after-sun lotion with Barbary figs and healing herbs, facial masks with white mud from Fez and geranium-flower essence.
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Cabinet Populaire
Stop and taste the rosewater, anoint yourself with healing essential oils and, on hot days, kindly Sidi Aboubida will pour a little cooling orange-flower water on your head. This is a full-service Berber pharmacy and cosmetics counter, with roots, powders and lotions in folk-art packaging for any conceivable complaint, from spots to shyness. Prices are set, and very popular indeed.
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Les Parfums Du Soleil
Those tantalizing Marrakshi garden scents have been blended and bottled by ethnobotanist Abderrazzak Benchaabane, whose fragrances are drawn from native flora and inspired by Berber aromatherapy principles. Soir de Marrakesh is a sultry stroll through a night-blooming garden, while Mogador brings a coastal breeze with traces of argan oil, Kaffir lime and cedar.
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Herboristerie Bou Inania
This large shop sells natural soaps, vegetable oils such as argan and olive, essential oils, musk perfume, ghassoul (clay that comes in chips or powder form) which is a natural soap and exfoliant excellent for skin and hair, and incense. There's also a wide range of traditional medicines and spices. It's off Talaa Kebira, near the Bou Inania Medersa.
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Pharmacie Koutoubia
All the essentials you forgot to bring are here, plus fragrant Nectarôme skin- and hair-care products from the organic gardens in nearby Ourika Valley. If you're not feeling your best, just tell the sharp young pharmacist what's wrong - she'll point out the best pharmaceutical or homeopathic cures for what ails you.
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Nausikaa Spa
How do we love thee, Nausikaa? Let us count the ways… We love your luxe fit-out, your relaxing massages, your Payot and Thalgo facials and your wide range of body treatments. But most of all we love your indulgent hammam experience, and you can have your hair blow-dried afterwards.
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Parfumerie Madini
This is the place for sweet smells - the Madini family has been distilling essential oils for some 14 generations and they claim to be able to perfectly reproduce any scent you care to give them, with a little time. The range of perfumes and essences on sale is literally intoxicating.
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Parfumerie Moulay Idriss
Stocking the usual range of essential oils and mock perfumes, this shop is more interesting for its wide range of prayer beads - the olive wood-and-bone rosary is particularly beautiful. There's also gum arabic incense and chunks of sandalwood.
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Karama Perfumes
Cairenes adore scent, you can find quality perfumes at a few specialists, such as Karama Perfumes, which is very popular with locals for scent copies as well as its own blends and basic essences.
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