I'm travelling the world to discover the secrets of lasting beauty,... There's snail secretion in this. ...great health... This is your pharmacy? Yeah. ...and extraordinary long life. Better skin than I've got. Look at him. From different parts of the world, I wanna find the secrets. This time I'm at the top of west Africa ` in Morocco. Your eyes just feel that they can't take everything in. Everything's, like, on steroids. Where many women and men prefer traditional beauty products to modern-day cosmetics. These are amazing! And I discover something new about a favourite hair product. It's also an aphrodisiac. And which of these natural ingredients gets its flavour from goats? GOATS BLEAT There they are. Will I find the world's best skin-and-beauty treatments in this extraordinary country? Everything's becoming so clear. Copyright Able 2015 RAPID DRUMBEAT SOUNDS The market square in Marrakech is wild and exotic. They say Morocco leaves a mark on you. I'm just wondering what that will mean for me. A monkey with a skirt. Oh my God. I'm hoping it's not from the bite of a monkey. I don't actually` don't know quite what to do right now. I like being near monkeys, and I've seen them in the wild. That is a different way to see a monkey. This is not good. 'And I hope it's not a mark from' the tread from a motor scooter. Or worse, from the bite of a snake. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no! No, I don't want to. No, I don't want to touch that. Safe. Safe. Come on. Come on. (GROANS) OK, but just keep him down. I'm breathing, deep breathing, meditating. There's a cobra there, and now I have a snake in my hand. OK, amazing. Do you want him now? There's plenty of ways Morocco could leave its mark on me. But hopefully it's from one of the beauty treatments here. So I'm escaping the craziness of the city to track down one of my favourite beauty products ` argan oil. It's liquid gold ` you can cook with it, eat it, it's great for the skin. It also moisturises and has incredible medicinal qualities. And it comes from a rare tree that grows nowhere else in the world but in this part of Morocco and is particularly favoured by... There they are! GOATS BLEAT Yes, goats love the argan tree too. In fact, legend has it that they once played a part in processing the oil. Maybe Rasheeda from the nearby argan oil co-op knows the real story. Phew! I'd heard the argan nuts were once picked out of the goat droppings. Who knows? Here is the nut of the argan, and this is what you guys actually hand-process to get the argan oil out. How do you even get argan oil out of that? It's hard! No! (LAUGHS) Smash it? Yeah. OK. So this is where it all happens? Yeah. I'd love to sit down and try to do some of this. As a newbie, I've been given the simplest task ` to crack open the nut. Together these women own this factory, so time's money. I can't get it open. (CHUCKLES) How come I can't open it? LAUGHS: Are you laughing? I am trying, OK? I am trying. It can take up to 20 hours to produce just 1 litre of oil ` if you know what you're doing. Hang on. Oh my God! Yes! (SIGHS) Hallelujah! (LAUGHS) > We did it. We did it. My little nut embryo. It's only taken me 15 minutes to get this out. This is the end product. It's so fine. It smells amazing. It rubs into the skin really really easy. It's incredible, but look at that ` it's beautiful fine oil that is for your, um` for your skin. For years I've loved argan oil. It stops my hair going frizzy. But who knew the argan kernels could also be made into one of the finest table oils? Actually, you can use it like olive oil. Wow. It's very nutty. It's almost like you wouldn't need to put any nuts in the salad. It tastes amazing. So basically what I've learnt today is this incredible argan oil is fantastic for the skin. The omegas ` it's rich in all three and six omegas, whether it's for skin or hair. It has incredible healing properties if you have burns or skin irritations. It's good for cholesterol. It's great for cardiovascular, anti-inflammatory and apparently also an aphrodisiac. So I'm stocking up in the nearby town of Essaouira. And here we have an argan-oil shop. Argan oil everywhere. Yeah. We have perfume oil with lavender, jasmine, gardenia. We have anti-psoriasis, anti-eczema. We have hydrating with rose, anti-wrinkle cream, black soap with eucalyptus in it for a good scrub, shampoo, conditioners, and we also have the edible argan oil. It just goes on and on and on. So they tell me there are treatments for everything in this town, especially for tourists. So we have... Viagra turbo for the male, and female Viagra, so if you wanna get things revved up, it's right here on the street. (CHUCKLES) Morocco's such a vivid and sensual mix of Berber, Arabian and French culture. It's just filled with loads of texture, and your eyes just feel like they can't take anything in. Everything's, like, on steroids. And while modesty is customary on the streets, it's a completely different experience at the local steam bath, which most Moroccans take at least once a week. Hammams are throughout Morocco. Basically, they're a little bit like the Roman bathhouses where everybody kind of comes together, they relax, they have tea. Moroccan mint tea ` it's practically the national drink. Cheers. Now off with the clothes and into the heat. So I'm about to go into the hammam, where I'm going to get steamed, scrubbed and hydrated. My own little camera gives a taste of the experience. Normally the female hammams are crowded with naked women and their daughters all chatting and relaxing away, getting argan-oil scrubs or perhaps a special one using black soap made from olives. I'm not even through the scrub yet, but I just had to come out and show. And I am somebody who showers every day, and just on one arm, this is the dead skin that comes off of somebody. Anyway, I'm going to go finish making a small island of dead skin. After the scrub, I'm coated in another natural product favoured by Moroccan men and women to moisturise their skin. I am covered in rhassoul clay, which is packed with magnesium and different types of minerals. There's some chunks on the back, and it's, like, kind of has this amazing tanning effect. I'll get back to ya. Everything's super warm around you. You mentally feel better, and you can feel your skin feeling better. By far it is one of my favourite spa treatments on the tour of beauty. So, I've finally been cleaned and clayed, and I wanna open a hammam in LA now. (LAUGHS) Coming up ` I'm tracking down a Moroccan beauty product beloved by my grandmother and finding health remedies that I never even dreamed of. God. Look. It's woolly whiskers. What's going on here? This is maize. Maize. Mice?! 1 On my Moroccan tour of beauty, I'm veering off the beaten track... These lanes just go on for ever and ever and ever. ...in search of health-and-beauty products developed by the local Berber population over thousands of years. I need a Berber pharmacy. It's gotta be here somewhere. Where the hell is this place? And I think I've just found it. There's just endless rows of colour and smells. And like traditional medicine everywhere, Berber medicine is based on ancient knowledge of herbs and plants. Isam is showing me around his pharmacy. This is camomile. Camomile. Fresh camomile. What is this? OK, there seems to be a lot of aphrodisiacs in Morocco. We call it... (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE), the Berber ginseng. This is constipation one. One advice we give it for the people use this ` stay at home near of the toilet. Near the toilet. Does it work really really fast? Fast. (LAUGHS) I can't believe the things they claim to remedy here. Everything from herpes to... Menopause? Oh my God. Look, it's woolly whiskers. What's going on here? That looks like a... This is maize ` maize. Mice?! Mice? Maize hair. Are you sure it's mice hair? Yeah, yeah. Actually, that got a little bit lost in translation ` he meant maize, not mice. Corn. Corn, yeah. Corn hair. Thank God. It just keeps going. But I do recognise these nigella seeds from my trip to Dubai. They told me they cure anything but death. It's like the seed of life, basically. Here they wrap the seeds in little balls to relieve headache, colds and flu. Sniff it. Close one nose and smell with the other one. Sorry. (LAUGHS) It's burnt a hole in my nose. I'll show you how you do it. Oh my God. Everything's becoming so clear. And like most pharmacies around the world, this one also sells cosmetics. Lipstick? Yeah. How do you put lipstick in that? (GASPS) No way! Try it. Wow. So you just lick your finger, scrub it around there, puts on a little bit of lip stain straight on the lips, and away you go ` you've got red lips. And Isam himself just happens to be wearing an eyeliner I came all the way to Morocco to source. Your eyes. You have amazing eyes. So you wear the kohl? Wow. Interesting. Really? Now, this kind of kohl is banned at home because of the high lead content, but I want to try it. I've found Khadijah, a local make-up artist, to help me go Berber for a day. Do Berber women put this on every single day? (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE) Oh. I'm going to look down. This is the stick of the century. This is how you put it on. How amazing is this? I love it. One fell swoop and you're done. It's amazing. Wow. And these are Berber tribal markings. I love these. They're amazing. So different. It only draws the soul further and further into the faces of everyone, and I think that's really cool. And if Johnny Depp isn't available, maybe I'll get a part in the Pirates of the Caribbean. So, I'm about five hours from Marrakech, and I'm here in the Valley of the Roses. This rugged landscape at the foot of the Atlas Mountains is the source of another world-famous Berber beauty product ` rose water. I've actually been using rose water for a very long time. I use it on my face when I travel or anytime I feel dehydrated. In May these bushes are covered in roses. Clearly I've got here a little bit early, but the good news is in town it's coming up roses. Rose water is a tradition in my family. My grandmother used it. My mum does too. It's time to fill up my suitcase. Moroccan roses. It's so potent in here ` as soon as you walk in to the store, you can just smell the rose petals. This factory is also a co-op run by women. So these are the harvested in this area? Yes, from the valley, fresh. Ok. Once they've dried, then how is the process to actually make the oil? The steam comes from here and mixes with flowers. We have inside the cold water and coils, and finished rose water and rose oils comes from this. So how much does that make? 1 kilo flower give 1 litre of rose water, but for oil, 4000 kilo give just 1 litres. Wow, that's a lot of rose petals. Like argan oil in Essaouira, rose water is a major source of income for women here. These rose shops are everywhere. Hello! Hello! How are you? How are you? How are you? This is beautiful. It's so big. Yes. What are the medicinal benefits? This is nice for skin, nice for hair, good for hands. This is natural. Very natural, very natural. Yes. And I have to say ` Fatima's beautiful skin is a living advertisement for what she sells. What are some of your favourite products? The mask. That smells good. It is nice, yeah. And cream for hands and cream for face. This is nice for face. Rose water. Yes, this nice. Good for a freshen up. What are these little bottles? This is rose oil. Yeah, this is good for face. Can I try some? I've never put pure rose oil on my face before. It's often used as the basis of perfumes. Burn a hole in my face. Yeah, this is nice. Bit of a peppermint feeling on it, and it makes the eyes, like, bright. But very potent. I think just the sheer smell of it too, it makes you feel good, you know? I mean, it has that lovely aroma about it. Oh, thank you! You're welcome. And like argan oil, it's good for the hair. Oh, I love your face. You're so gorgeous. Mwah. Coming up ` high tea in an oasis of peace and calm. Look at this produce. And the medicinal benefits of a delicious Moroccan feast with a surprise ingredient ` Pigeon. Pigeon? It's a bird. 1 On my Moroccan tour of beauty, I'm feeling fantastic. My hair's smoothed with argan oil, I'm smelling of roses, and I'm up for something new. How amazing is this? Clearly dressed for the occasion ` a henna party. Welcome. Rachel. Aman. It's a kind of a hen's party with a difference ` where the bride and her girlfriends receive temporary tattoos for the big day. What is` is this? The henna. The henna herb. Herb, yeah. And so then that's ground down and made into a powder? Yes. Every single woman who gets married in Morocco, do they have this done? Yes. Like good luck for the wife. OK, let's go for it, yeah. And I'm hoping this henna tattoo brings good luck to me too. So what you are doing right now is the symbol of Marrakech on my foot. Yes. Pretty incredible when you see the intricate detail that she's doing. A fantastic art form right on your skin, and you can wash it off if you want. It doesn't hurt, guys. It's easy, beautifully and delicately and so quickly done. So now we're about to have the big reveal. What do I say? Sorry? > Go for it. Yalla. Yalla! (LAUGHS) A squeeze of lime juice and sugar and a rub from a ring starts a chemical reaction. It's amazing. Look at it. Everything you drew is on now. And voila! You get that lovely orange henna colour. It's really beautiful. I mean, it's a beautiful way to express yourself. It's something that's very temporary and you can change daily. Henna's a little piece of magic in Morocco. The henna party ` or any occasion in Morocco for that matter ` is incomplete without mint tea. There must be a reason why Moroccan mint tea is so delicious, and I've come to this lovely garden outside Marrakech to find out. In front of me is patches and patches and patches of Moroccan mint. It looks so healthy and so green. It's a larger-leafed variety of mint than what I grow at home and can be mixed with other plants as well. This is Moroccan mint tea with orange blossoms. Incredible. Wish my pillow smelt like that. And Sufian makes about the best brew in the country. This is the tea ceremony. These little cups are just full of antioxidants, great breath, great for your stomach, indigestion. I mean, what more could you ask for? So we have a little sugar here. Moroccan tea is very sweet. These would be horse cubes. That's my entire sugar intake, I think. Hmm, that would be double my weekly intake. And there's a special art to pouring mint tea so that it gets a lovely foam on top. It's so good. I mean, it is amazing, and with the orange blossom in it ` incredible. This fragrant garden of mint, orange blossom and amazing herbs and vegetables belongs to Chef Moha ` one of Morocco's most celebrated chefs. Oh, those are absolutely gigantic. Look at this produce. It's no wonder Chef Moha gets his produce from this garden. Chef Moha pioneered a new kind of Moroccan cuisine by bringing together the freshest ingredients with some age-old techniques. You know this lemon? No. That's the classic lemon. Tonight he's letting me tag along while he cooks for one of his VIP guests ` a prince. We will cook tangia. It's really special dish of Marrakech. Chef Moha's making a lamb stew. But it's the particular way he mixes in traditional herbs and spices that sets it apart. Do you know what is this one? Saffron. It's very expensive. Taste it. Mm-hm. Exactly. It's so good for you, though, saffron, right? Yes. And there's lots of properties in there that are really good for anti-aging, and it's just good for your whole immune system, isn't it? Yeah, blood also and many things, but for me most important is for` ...taste. And we put lemon ` special lemon. On my tour of beauty so far, I've learnt that fermented foods like these lemons also have medicinal qualities. Cos fermentation seems to be a big thing... But for me` ...everywhere. For me, healthy. I know. I know; it's taste. I always speak about healthy. So what do we`? This one is for taste. Taste it. Wow. It's a little bitter. Now we put some cumin. OK, now look. Almost like a cheese ` like a blue cheese. Exactly ` like blue cheese. That's it. OK. So it all goes into a clay pot to stew for hours. This is crazy. This is amazing. The smells are incredible. For the entree, Chef Moha mixes those health-giving herbs and spices with a meat I've never tasted before. Pigeon? Taste. Oh my God. Pigeon. It's a bird. Almond cooked with orange flower. What a beautiful little parcel. Yeah. And in a few minutes, it's almost done. Traditional Moroccan is very expensive, because pigeon is not cheap. But there's thousands of them out there! Yeah, yeah, but` but` Yes. But there's the primo pigeon. Yeah. That is so beautifully done. Sugar. Look at that. Cut it. I mean, it looks like a dessert. Mmm. Wow. That's the most sensational taste in your mouth. And to finish, there's Chef Moha's special lamb cooked in a tagine - a taste of Morocco in just one mouthful. Those colours. The meat falls off the bone. Oh my God. Oh, it's OK? Unbelievable. I was afraid because 'ohh'. Oh my God. That is incredible. Yeah? Amazing! But I think my time here is done. The prince will be waiting for his dinner. Yeah. (LAUGHS) Bye-bye. Morocco's been a different experience for me, but I do feel connected, and it's somewhere I do want to come back. You walk around the medina ` yeah, you know, it's touristy. You got cobras, you got this, there's haggling, there's all this kind of stuff, but the people here are very very, you know, laid-back and warm and kind. As for the beauty products, well, it was a privilege meeting the women who make and use them. Argan oil ` I can't get enough of it. And who knew the nuts were flavoured by goats? I've stocked up on rose water to give to my daughter and mum. The family tradition continues. And, of course, I loved the local customs, the natural medicines and the beautiful food. I'll definitely be experimenting with herbs and spices back home. There's certain countries that do leave marks on you, and I think Morocco's definitely... has left that mark on me. OK, let's make some froth. (LAUGHS) (LAUGHS) It's OK. I got this. This is not easy. (LAUGHS) It's just not easy.