KelebekPremium Natural Exfoliating Gloves, Turkish Hammam Kese, Original Exfoliating Mitt, Body Scrub for Men and Women

I've been using these Turkish bath exfoliating mitts since I can remember. It should be more than 20 years. And since I've known myself, I've never changed the brand.After seeing some of the comments, I realized some people don't know how to use this. If you're not familiar with using these, and don't know what to expect, here are some facts and tips. If you follow those, this will be a perfect product. Otherwise, you're using it wrong.1) THIS IS NOT A SOFT SILK. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE RAW AND HARD.Many people think of this sheer and soft texture when they think of silk. Well, it is silk, but to the processed, sheer way.2) IT IS USED FOR MECHANICAL EXFOLIATION.So, you remove callouses from feet with a pumice stone. This is the body equivalent of it, and that's why it's hard. It doesn't hurt but you're supposed to rub this against your skin with some force, so that you can peel the dead skin. Imagine it as cleaning an oven top, use that much force. It's not a pampering and soft process, it is a deep cleaning process, it works with friction.3) SWEATING BEFOREHAND WORKS.Before exfoliation, sweating or making yourself hot really eases the process. The dead skin should look like an eraser dust coming out of nowhere on your body. The attached picture is what the process should look like. It's not me but this is exactly what I would look like if I took a photo during the process. Your skin can get a little red due to intense rubbing. It should go in an hour or so.4) DO NOT EVER USE SOAP WITH IT!!!I can't stress this one enough.This is not a replacement for a loofah. This is complementary to the loofah.After a good sweating, exfoliate yourself before cleaning your body with soap. Coming back to the pumice stone example, what you first remove callouses and then wash your feet. If you put soap on a pumice stone, it becomes smooth and it won't remove callouses. It's the same for these mitts.This cloth should not ever touch soap or it's ruined. It loses its texture. One-time mitts can be used with soap but these are reusable and should not be in contact with soap unless you can get it in bulk and don't mind the waste.5) IT'S HIGHLY BENEFICIAL.It promotes blood flow, helps with dermal rejuvenation, cleans pores, unravels ingrown hair. Plus, the deep clean feeling I get is unmatched.6) DO NOT USE IT DAILY.You don't use pumice stones every day, it's just like that. I use mine every two weeks because I'm used to it since childhood. Using every month is a good choice, too.7) DO NOT USE IT ON THE PARTS WITH INFLAMMATORY OR CYSTIC ACNE.This can be extended to very sensitive body parts. Exfoliation is a rough process. Think of your inflammatory acne as small and thin capsules of inflamed goo. When you remove the dead skin, you also remove the skin over the inflammation. So, basically open the lid of a capsule and set the goo free. Then, when you keep rubbing, you smear the goo all over your skin and cause more inflammation.So, don't use this on your back, if your back has acne.If it's non-inflammatory acne, it's fine.7) DO NOT USE THIS ON FACE.The skin on the face is too soft for the mitts. It would be scratching a nonstick pan with metal. It's a big no no.You can use this anywhere except the face, and, of course, the nether areas. Other than those two, you can keep rubbing ant part of your body. Having too much hair on skin decreases the efficiency of the mitts. So, it works better for the less hairy parts of the body.8) IT IS BETTER IF THE SKIN AND THE MITTS ARE DAMP, BUT NOT SOAKING WET.Water decreases the friction, but it won't work on dry skin. So the best approach would be being damped but not wet.When I go into shower, this is the routine I follow.- I turn on the hottest water that I can sustainably tolerate, but not so hot that it dries out my skin.- Wash the hair with this water. In the meantime, the duration becomes ready enough to exfoliate.- I exfoliate whole body with the mittens.- I then use a loofah and castile soap to wash the body. (Castile soap is gentle with the skin, and it needs something gentle after all the rubbing.)- Before drying myself with a towel, I put on moisturizer in the tub so that it locks in the moisture for additional smoothness and provides a protective barrier until the skin soothes itself.- Then get out of the tub and dry myself.9) DON'T FORCE IT IF THERE IS NO DEAD SKIN.If nothing is coming out, nothing is coming out. Your skin may not be hot enough for exfoliation, you may have not yet collected that much dead skin, you may have waxed and it might have removed the dead skin, etc etc. Don't force it, try another time. When the time comes, the dead skin will come in flakes.10) DO NOT USE IT AFTER ANY KIND OF DEPILATION OR ANY OTHER SKIN TREATMENT.With these processes your skin becomes way too sensitive for exfoliation. If you want to do those, you can shave after exfoliation because some ingrown hair will be out. But do not do waxing, dermabrasion or such, and exfoliation in the same week.11) ONE PRODUCT, ONE PERSON.It's not hygienic to share the mitts. It already puts the skin in a vulnerable state, you don't need your family and friend's germ all over it.So, if you do it this way, this product will work perfectly. That's how it's intended to be used. Otherwise, you're just wasting your money.

This is a great exfoliator that works really well. It rubs off the exterior layer of skin and probably helps with blood circulation in the skin because of the rubbing. However, be careful not to over rub your skin with it because it will rub off too much and it will burn and scab the next day like a scrape. I have washed it in the washing machine with no issues. I’m so glad I found this.

i have never written a review before for anything, but i had to write this. i am 32 and my entire life, have never had “dolphin smooth” legs. ever. i tried everything (new razor, scrubs, every exfoliating mitt i could find, silicone scrubbers of all kinds, waxing, epilating, everything except professional laser hair removal). i was never smooth and no matter how much i exfoliated, i would always get out of the shower and dry off and see dead skin still coming off with my towel. i kept getting advertised a similar item on social media but i won’t buy anything there. i came to amazon. i found the one i was being advertised but this one much cheaper. i thought i’d try this first (for $3!) and if it’s alright, maybe try the other. i love this thing! i have mild kp on my arms that is gone and i am able to shave and have smooth dolphin legs like i’ve been hearing about! i get off so much dead skin i can see it on the bottom of my shower. i’ve used other exfoliators that i could see dead skin but they would make my body red and often were scratchy and painful, but this is not.the mitt is an inconvenient size for my hand snd after my entire body my hand seems sore from trying to spread out my fingers to hold it on. i don’t care. worth it.

I have bought quite a few of these Kelebek Turkish Exfoliating Mitt Hammam Bath Glove Skin Exfoliating Spa Keses Mitt.I enjoy using Kessa Gloves and I use them twice a week. These gloves work well and are priced fairly.The only thing I don't like with thse lower priced Kessa Gloves is that the hanging loop has been cut off every single glove that I have bought at the $2.70 to $2.80 price-point. They still have the wrist-wrap cord, but no hanging loop.My $6 to $8 Kessa Gloves do have the loop and that is super helpful for hanging. My more expensive ones are also better finished around the top edge. The actual woven fabric seems to be the same on both the more expensive Kessa and the lower priced ones. For the better price, I can live without the hanging loop. I just sew a piece of string on as a hanging loop instead.

This product isn’t soft, I didn’t expect it to be since it’s an exfoliator. I didn’t feel like it was painfully rough either. It worked as advertised. Saw rolls of dead skin come off. My skin feels clean and soft after. My kids couldn’t get it to work for them, I feel there is a trick to get it to work. Don’t use body wash/soap. Below is what I do:I wash my hair first and let my skin soak in water while showering. Then shut off water. Let myself drip dry some and when damp, rub back and forth (either vertically or horizontally) and the dead skin starts rolling off. I do this without any body wash or soap. When I’m all done exfoliating, then I’ll wash off with some mild soap and water. The Kesse can be washed with soap and water after and hung to dry.Kinda gross but the second photo is a new Kesse next a used (once) Kesse to show how much “dirt” is removed.