my new crush; french savon

My new crush; French Savon Liquide Encens Lavande (Incense Lavender) hand soap infused with rich exotic scents and enriched with a little extra olive oil. Amazing smell lingers after washing my hands really I don't need to wear perfume:) Love the amber color bottle and the simple yet powerful typography. I found mine from vickerey . It is a little pricey but hey why not pamper my hands once in a while?

Love the cube Savon de Marseille (French law requires that any soap called "Marseille" be made from a minimum of 72% vegetable oil) A L'huile D'argan hand soap that I found at HomeGoods. Loving the chunky look and the lettering. Smells good too, it's made out of Moroccan Argan oil. I have collected a few of these cube soaps in different scents while they were available. I am happy that they will last for some time...

What's your favorite hand soap?

Have a great weekend!xx

turkish bath/hammam sink

I think most of you know what a Turkish bath or hammam is. They are similar to saunas. I am not going to get into how Turkish baths work in detail but, I am going to talk about their marble stone basins that I love, called kurna. Visitors laying on hot steamed stone slabs pour cool water from these basins over themselves using hammam bowls, while preparing for body scrubs and then soap massages. That sounds good doesn't it?!

I came across these basins several times when I was pinning on Pinterest and loved their looks so much, I even created a hammam board. Around two years ago I saw a couple of them at a local Anthropologie and silly me I did not buy it. It was a great one too!



This gorgeous Anthropologie sink that I photographed but didn't buy!

A year ago I found another one at materialculture. I jumped all over it. We had to transform it from kurna into a sink by having a drain hole drilled. We also had to raise the existing faucet.



I waited for almost a year and finally the good old marble Turkish hammam sink is in! It sure has some character. A little bulky, but I kinda like that:) I love the structure and the rugged texture of this old carrara marble. It is now sitting on a Chinese cabinet surrounded with small Turkish hammam bowls, hammam towel, soap holder box and Indian lassi cup.



Here is a different angle.

Below, some of the hammam sink pictures I collected on Pinterest that I liked. I hope you enjoy;


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This is from an Turkish hammam museum, love those faucets too.


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Another Turkish bath basin with hammam bowl.


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Powder Room - John Saladino. Love this look.


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Venetian mirror and Turkish marble basin.


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Love this rustic look and that mirror is breathtaking!


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Contrasting old and new. The old basin softens the lines in this room.


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Amazing sink.


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So fresh, simple, yet so chic look. Ah, don't you want to be there?!


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A Manhattan loft with beautiful basin.

Have a great weekend!xx