Taroudant- Dutch fashion model Imaan Hammam of Moroccan origins reveals at Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival last weekendthe secret of her beauty.
The Moroccan model said that the secret of her skin care treatment can be found in the kitchen of everybody.
Hammam is reportedly using “oils and butters from her mother’s native Morocco into her beauty routine” admitting that the best-kept secret of her beauty is mixing saffron and honey and applying it to her “face for five minutes”.
“Y’know, there’s a thing you cook with, called saffron. Mix it with honey and then apply it to your face like a mask for five minutes. Wash it off and your face is beautiful!” Hammam was quoted by Vogue as saying.
One of the world's most expensive spices, Saffron is also best known for its therapeutic benefits.
The small town of Taliouine in southern Morocco is home to country’s largest and best quality saffron fields.
To develop and promote the sector of saffron into a vector of socio-economic development for the local population, the kingdom celebrate every year in November the International Festival of saffron.