What Is a Hammam Spa? A hammam is a public steam room, often offering massage and exfoliation, in which people can come together to relax and bathe. Hammams often contain a series of rooms employing dry and damp heat, showers, soaps, and salts.

The Benefits Of Hammam The primary benefit of hammam is that it cleans your pores of impurities and sloughs off dead skin. This reveals the fresh smoother skin beneath, and the increase in blood flow from the massage aspect will give you a healthy glow. Other benefits of hammam include: Muscle relaxation.

While both are profoundly relaxing and good for the skin, rather than using thermal waters, hammam treatments use hot steam to encourage a deep and invigorating cleanse. Many hammam treatments also use vitamin-E rich, olive-based soap known for its skin-nourishing and exfoliating properties.

What’s a Turkish bath? Unlike the Hammam, a Turkish bath primarily uses water rather than steam. You begin by entering, in most cases, an impressive room that’s completely covered in marble featuring a big dome, basins and a central, raised platform above the heating source.

Hammam is mainly made of marble (or stone), instead sauna is made of wood. This is the most important difference: sauna reaches low humidity levels (about 10-20%) with a temperature of 80-90 degrees, compared to Hammam that reaches high humidity levels (80-90%) and a temperature of 35-40 degrees.

The soap can be used in the daily bath to eradicate pimples, acne, rashes, bumps, itchy skin and other skin problems. Regular use of Hamam ensures that your skin remains fresh and glowing. It helps the skin heal and repair itself faster, leading to suppleness and radiance.

The complete hammam ritual with the extreme heat and vigorous scrubbing, should be done once a week, but the Moroccan Beldi Soap and Argan Oil can be incorporated into your daily cleansing and moisturizing routine without the complete hammam experience.

The entrance costs about $15, and a massage raises the price to about $23. One of the most indulgent hammam experiences in Istanbul is at the Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Hamami.

While Turkish hammams are heated solely by hot and dry steam circulating through the room, the heat in a Moroccan bath is generated through hot water running through taps, and heated walls and floors, which creates a more subtle steam bath experience.

So, which to go for? Well, if you want to really clean your skin and feel invigorated then a hammam is the way to go. If you want to sweat out the toxins and enjoy a relaxing experience then the sauna is probably best.