African Beauty Rituals

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The latest in Beauty is precisely a return to tradition, either by using soap bars like those used by our mothers and grandmothers or looking for essential ingredients found in nature, and that is precisely the third installment of the Special video series with Kika, in which Colombian influencer Kika Rocha explores in depth the traditional beauty rituals of an African tribe that uses minerals to care for their skin.

"When they reach puberty, the women of the tribe do not touch the water again and their beauty ritual is based on a clay that they apply daily to the skin," she explains after visiting the Himba tribe in northern Namibia. "I have never seen women with more beautiful skin than them."

The secret, as Seebatiaan Mayer, an expert in this tribe, tells us is ocher, a mineral that Himba women mix with animal fat and prepare a paste with which they cover the skin of the entire body, from head to toe, protecting it from the sun and providing delicious nutrients.

Inspired by this ritual, Rocha proposes some clay masks that we can find in cosmetic stores to hydrate and keep our skin healthy. One of her favorites is this hibiscus, clay and lavender from SW Organics, a brand known for using very few ingredients, and always natural, in their beauty products.

See in the video all the details of the very interesting ritual of these women and other natural cosmetics that we can get in our usual stores to maintain a luminous and healthy skin.