The Story of Baiden Mitten.

Beauty was not an option for the Harem Ladies. They were always in competition with the other women from their harem fighting for the attention of their husband and master. If they succeeded in getting the attention and becoming the favorite they would have the world at their feet. Power, influence, gifts, favors and best opportunities for their children would be theirs. If they did not manage to achieve it, they would fade into oblivion and be no more than servants to the favorite concubines.

That is why they took the art of beauty very, very seriously. Enormous amounts of wealth would be spent on caring for their skin and making themselves as beautiful as they possibly could. The basis of their beauty regime would be weekly steam bathing and totally cleansing their skin with a special coarse cloth that would make their skin "as smooth as the finest silk".

It took centuries and lots of trials and errors to perfect the little scrubbing mitt that the harem women used. Its function is so much more than just a beauty aid. Apart from making the skin incredibly smooth it works with heat and steam to give body a total detox.

When skin is exposed to a hot environment such as a steam room or a hot bath, it goes into shock. The pores open and the skin sweats to cool down the body. With the sweat, all the impurities are released. The skin acts like a third kidney removing toxins from our bodies, but it can only work to its fullest potential if the pores are clear. If pores are clogged, the toxins accumulate under skin surface often bubbling to the top as breakouts, rashes and other skin problems.

Baiden Mitten does an incredible job of clearing the pores. It works WITH the skin not ON it by gently gathering dead skin cells and impurities, rolling them into strips and then letting them fall away. At the same time the mitten performs a deep massage that stimulates blood flow in the capillaries speeding up the process of delivering toxins to the top layer of the skin. When the pores are clear and the sweat has allowed toxins to flow out of your body, the change to your skin is profound. It can breathe and repair all the damage caused by the environmental factors.

There is nothing quite the same as the beauty of healthy skin. It is smooth, it glows and is even in coloring and texture. No cosmetic can make it be so, because it has to come from within. It is the secret of the harem women that has been kept hidden for centuries.

For Baiden Mitten its arrival to the US did not occur with flashlights and ceremonies. Instead it quietly sneaked into the country in the luggage of two Turkish immigrant ladies as their personal beauty tool. It has been manufactured by their family in a small Turkish village for centuries. The two Turkish ladies - Mother and Daughter, did not know they were bringing a treasure with them to the US. Baiden Mitten had been with them all their lives and they just took it for granted.

It was only after other women that they met in their new country wanted to know about the secret to their exceptionally clear skin that they realized that it was not available on the market.

They found some other bath house mittens that claimed to do the same thing, some even looked very similar and could do a fair job, but there was NOTHING available that could perform such a deep exfoliation and massage like their mittens could. Through research and comparison they found that it was not so much the fibers that the mittens were made of, but rather the method by which they were produced that made all the difference.

While other companies modernized the machines and processes to speed the production of the mittens, in their village the mittens were still produced on similar machines that manufactured them centuries ago for the harem ladies. It was a slower, more labor consuming way that resulted in mittens that could perform magic.

That is when Mother and Daughter realized that they might hold the key to give thousands of women in the world skin that was as beautiful as it could be for them.

It did not happen overnight; in fact it took another 14 years before the Daughter was in a position to reveal her beauty secret to the world. Although she now had a new life and profession in US she wanted to fulfill a promise to her beloved Mother who passed away that she would bring beauty to as many women in the world as she could. The Mother knew that anybody, of any age, can be beautiful if they have beautiful skin and she wanted other women to have a chance to feel beautiful throughout their lives.

In honor of her mother the Daughter named her mitten "Baiden", which incorporated part of her Mother's name. Now, every time that a woman achieves beautiful skin with the mitten, it will be a present from her Mum.