Body Scrubs & the Moroccan Hammam in Ruaka

Three scrubs, and a ritual

Every scrub is an hour of exfoliation from shoulders to ankles. What changes is what we use and what it does.

• Coffee Glow Body Scrub: 60 min, KES 3,000. Ground coffee. Firms, brightens, and the smell alone is worth the hour.
• Turmeric Brightening Body Scrub: 60 min, KES 3,500. Turmeric and honey. The one to book for uneven tone or dull skin.
• Raspberry Glow Body Scrub: 60 min, KES 3,500. Fruit enzymes and sugar, so it lifts dead skin chemically as well as physically. Gentle enough for sensitive skin.
• Moroccan Hammam Ritual: 90 to 105 min, KES 6,000. Black soap, steam, a kessa glove scrub and a rhassoul clay wrap. The most thorough exfoliation we offer, and a genuine experience rather than a treatment.
• Body Scrub + Massage: 90 min, KES 5,000. The scrub first, then a full massage. Oils absorb far better into freshly exfoliated skin, so this works better than either on its own.
• Body Scrub + Massage + Facial: 110 min, KES 7,500. Close to two hours, everything covered. Our most requested pre wedding and pre holiday booking.

Why scrub before you wax, not after

Order matters and people get it the wrong way round. Book your scrub about a week before your wax, not after it.

Exfoliating a week ahead lifts dead skin so hairs are not trapped under it, which means the wax grips properly and you leave with fewer ingrowns. Scrubbing freshly waxed skin, on the other hand, is uncomfortable and irritating, which is why we ask you to wait three days after a wax before exfoliating at home.

If you are planning a full body wax, a scrub the week before is the single best thing you can do to make it a better appointment.

Good times to book one

• Before a holiday. Even tone, no rough patches, skin that takes sun evenly.
• Before a wedding, yours or someone else’s. Shoulders and back photograph very differently after a scrub.
• End of a long stretch of work. The ninety minute scrub and massage is a genuine reset.
• When your body lotion has stopped working. Usually it has not, there is too much dead skin in the way.