The Moroccan babouche slipper

The Moroccan babouche is a very durable and comfortable leather slipper.Traditionally worn all over Morocco. Yellow is the traditional colour but the babouche also comes in many different colours. The traditional babouche has a pointed toe wereas the Berber babouche has a more rounded toe. The name babouche is also used for nearly all types of Moroccan slipper or shoe.
Hand Made:
At Shop Morocco we offer Traditional and berber babouches, Plus a wide range of hand made babouches. Our close friend Driss has been making babouches in his home town Tangiers, for more than 40 years. His skill and craftmanship is unbeatable. Now working close with Shop Morocco, Driss makes babouches to order.

Perfect gift:
Slippers have been a traditional gift for many years especialy at Christmas, The hand made berber babouche is the perfect gift, warm, comfortable and durable. They look good too.

Top 10 Gift Ideas

1.Babouche slippers
2.Thuya wood products
3.Moroccan jewellery
4.Cushions and throws
5.incense burner
6.Leather pouffe
7.Moroccan hats
8.Djellaba
9.Burnous
10.Head scarf

Argan oil is well known for it's anti-ageing properties, Due to high levels of Vitamin E and saponins, which soften the skin. It can help to reduce wrinkles by restoring the skin's water lipid layer and it also cools and soothes inflammation. Its antioxidant properties help to neutralise free radicals. Yet it does all this quite naturally.
It is known as the Tree of Life. For ­­centuries it's been a well-kept secret known only to the Berber women who use it to nourish their skin, hair and nails. They also use it to soothe dry eczema, acne and psoriasis and stretch marks.
To get the maximum benefit from argan you should take it internally as well. It contains twice as much vitamin E as olive oil and is rich in antioxidants. It contains eight essential fatty acids and also rare plant sterols with anti-inflammatory properties, so it's beneficial for arthritic or rheumatic conditions.
The oil has a delicious nutty taste and is best used as a salad dressing, or drizzled over pasta – the health-giving properties are lost if it's heated. Shop Morocco

Moroccan Djellaba

The djellaba is the clasic Moroccan garment with a long sleeves and loosely fitting hooded. Although traditionally a outer robe. The light summer djellaba can be worn seperatly . Djellabas come in a variety of styles, patterns and colors, with equaly as many different materials.Typically, men traditionally wear a hat (kufi) or a red fez hat (tarboosh) and soft yellow leather slippers (babouche) with a djellaba.Women also wear djellabas. The hood is of vital importance for both sexes as it protects the wearer from the sun and in earlier times was used as a defence against sand being blown into the wearers face by strong desert winds. It is not uncommon for the hood to be used as an informal pocket during times of nice weather, and can fit loaves of bread or bags of groceries. Djellabas are made of a wide variety of materials, from cotton or rayon for summer-time djellabas to coarse wool for winter djellabas. The wool is typically harvested from sheep living in the surrounding mountains, sometimes goat or camel hair is added especially in the heavier winter djellabas. Then a long process of turning the wool into yarn is carried out (normally by hand). It is then woven in the fabric to create the garment. The djellaba is worn by both men and women; the men's style is generally baggier while a women's djellabas is generally tighter and can sport elaborate decorative embroidery in a variety of colors. Women normally add a head scarf. Almost all djellabas of both styles include a baggy hood called a 'cob' that comes to a point at the back. Traditionally Djellabas reach right down to the ground but nowadays they are becoming slimmer and shorter.

Shop Morocco as just added New Winter Djellabas to it's 2010 Collection