1. A jhawaan is a traditional terracotta pumice foot scrubber used in South Asian households for cleaning and exfoliating the skin. It originated in Bangladesh where it was commonly used by girls and women to beautify their feet as prospective brides.
2. The jhawaan is made by hand-molding terracotta clay into an approximately 6-inch long tool with grooves or bumps for scrubbing. Firing the clay in a kiln makes the tool durable and long-lasting.
3. Over time, the jhawaan evolved to also be used and marketed to men by adding a fist-shaped indentation, as male
1. A jhawaan is a traditional terracotta pumice foot scrubber used in South Asian households for cleaning and exfoliating the skin. It originated in Bangladesh where it was commonly used by girls and women to beautify their feet as prospective brides.
2. The jhawaan is made by hand-molding terracotta clay into an approximately 6-inch long tool with grooves or bumps for scrubbing. Firing the clay in a kiln makes the tool durable and long-lasting.
3. Over time, the jhawaan evolved to also be used and marketed to men by adding a fist-shaped indentation, as male
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It is about a pakistani traditional bathing product.
1. A jhawaan is a traditional terracotta pumice foot scrubber used in South Asian households for cleaning and exfoliating the skin. It originated in Bangladesh where it was commonly used by girls and women to beautify their feet as prospective brides.
2. The jhawaan is made by hand-molding terracotta clay into an approximately 6-inch long tool with grooves or bumps for scrubbing. Firing the clay in a kiln makes the tool durable and long-lasting.
3. Over time, the jhawaan evolved to also be used and marketed to men by adding a fist-shaped indentation, as male
1. A jhawaan is a traditional terracotta pumice foot scrubber used in South Asian households for cleaning and exfoliating the skin. It originated in Bangladesh where it was commonly used by girls and women to beautify their feet as prospective brides.
2. The jhawaan is made by hand-molding terracotta clay into an approximately 6-inch long tool with grooves or bumps for scrubbing. Firing the clay in a kiln makes the tool durable and long-lasting.
3. Over time, the jhawaan evolved to also be used and marketed to men by adding a fist-shaped indentation, as male
1 History of South Asian Design | Osama Siddiq | Comm-70
Jhawaan An Eastern Terracotta Pumice Foot Scrubber
A Jhawaan is a simple everyday bathing tool, it has a great history attached to it but the fact is that it is still being used in our homes, except that it now has the iconic Fist Punch in the lower end. The Dimensions of this tool vary place to place; its approximately 6 inches long with the maximum width of 3.5 inches. As a Product its very handy and very comfortable, even for the lubricant hands of a person bathing, its been used comfortably. The Concept arose in the East Bangladesh, Jhawaan has a long and interesting history in Bangladeshi community life. Traditionally, people have used this natural stone for a variety of cleaning and household chores. Most notable, however, was its importance as a tool for keeping feet clean and beautiful. In past Bangladeshi tradition, it was customary that a girl show both of her feet to the boy who was to select her as a bride, as it was believed that girls who had attractive feet brought good fortune to a marriage; for this reason, girls were encouraged to scrub their feet with pumice stones in order to beautify them. Today, the pumice stone has become a popular product around the world for scrubbing. As for the material comes first Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cotta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous. Its uses include vessels (notably flower pots), water and waste water pipes, bricks, and surface embellishment in building construction. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta) 2 History of South Asian Design | Osama Siddiq | Comm-70
Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of highly vesicular rough textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals. It is typically light colored. Scoria is another vesicular volcanic rock that differs from pumice in having larger vesicles and thicker vesicle walls and being dark colored and denser. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumice) In the making of this product a person must first carefully mold the terracotta by hand into the appropriate shape. After this, the piece must dry in the sun for a few days before being fired in a kiln. One person can mold approximately 150 to 200 pumice stones per day. (Source: Alham Baba bhatti waley, Johar Town, Lahore) The Fist Punch in the bottom was made to actually enhance the market of Jhawaan, As the first design was found to be feminist, and was used by the females, Take it like this, in old times, If a man was to go and buy a Jhawaan, He had to tell that he was taking it for the females in his house otherwise he would be greatly judged by the society, So adding a powerful Manly Fist Punch was a key to make it look more manly and hence gradually the market extended, now not only Women but also Men who take care of their skin take it for their good. (Source: An old shopkeeper named Rajhesh at DataDarbar) The Use of Jhawaan is very simple, It comes in two different textured surfaces, one is the horizontal extruded lines and the other one is the spotted sponge texture, both have different usage regarding different parts of body, So after taking a good bath, when the skin is moist and damp, its time to scrub out all the dirt a bit harshly, some people may apply gels to make the respective area a bit more lubricant so the dirt can be taken out much easily without damaging the skin. According to its history, it was somewhat made just for gently scrubbing feet. But then the product focused on especially dry or callused areas, such as heels, balls of feet and toes. Polishing and smoothening skin with the back-side of the scrubber. So why does it really work? Why do we still use it to clean ourselves? Well the "pumice" texture works to gently scrub away dry skin, and the "washboard" side helps polish the skin. Terra-cotta, used widely in the Indian Sub-continent, is fired in a kiln, so it never wears out. Trivia: An interesting fact about this tool is that in the province of Sindh, near the city Hyderabad, approximately 100kms from Karachi, there is a village called Sajawal, there is this interesting story of how this little tool Jhawaan led to execute 5 women and ban the tool from the village, the tool was being used by the common village women as a sexual exciter, they were simply using it for an erotic rash masturbation, which led damaging the organ, when later discovered by the local Hakeem it was told to their husbands and family members that there women have been having intercourses with some random man, not once but many times, this angered the husbands most and it simply led to a homicide.
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