If you are one of the many millions of people who suffer from psoriasis, then you too, like me, have to endure a constant regime of creams and lotions in an attempt to lessen the impact of the dry, flakey skin that the psoriasis causes.

Well, I don’t know about you, but for me – it’s a constant drag. Every day having to put on a cocktail of psoriasis creams and lotions, some with ingredients that can have unpleasant side effects and all costing a small fortune that creates a hole in the weekly budget.

This was a situation that I was convinced would be normal for the rest of my life, until a good friend told me about the Dead Sea and some psoriasis research he had heard about. Apparently, a course of treatments involving the salt water, mineral mud packs and sun baths produce results that are, to say the least, miraculous. According to the research (I looked it up in our local library), after only a short course of treatments, psoriasis scared skin clears up and the disease goes into remission for up to nine months!

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Solusper aqua (spa), which means water therapy, providing thousand of benefits for health and beauty. How about with the thalassotherapy ?

Thalassotherapy comes from Greek language, which means thalasa is sea. In practice, this therapy uses sea water and other marine material, including sand, mud, and seaweed.

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Should You Eat Shrimp from the Gulf?
Will fears about the oil spill’s effect on seafood from the Gulf make us think more about where our fish comes from? There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. “Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!” Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. “Don’t worry,” she says. “They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their bosses …

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Without a doubt, one of the liveliest business and investment ventures rocking the health and beauty industries today is the ancient, venerable Dead Sea.

From mineral-rich black mud body masques to health treatments in thermo-mineral springs and the Dead Sea brine, the region’s abundant cosmetological and therapeutic natural resources are truly legendary.

Cleopatra knew well the value of the naturally beautifying and restorative products that came from the Dead Sea region. She so coveted the bounty of the mineral-laden bath salts, the skin-revitalizing mud baths and the intoxicating balsamic perfumes extracted from the oases that her lover, Marc Anthony, led his troops into a fierce and bloody war to secure the region for his beautiful Queen.
And Cleopatra herself built the very first Dead Sea cosmetic facilities. Visitors to Ein Bokek and the Biblical, historic Ein Gedi can still see the bones of those factories today.

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Without a doubt, one of the liveliest business and investment ventures rocking the health and beauty industries today is the ancient, venerable Dead Sea.

From mineral-rich black mud body masques to health treatments in thermo-mineral springs and the Dead Sea brine, the region’s abundant cosmetological and therapeutic natural resources are truly legendary.

Cleopatra knew well the value of the naturally beautifying and restorative products that came from the Dead Sea region. She so coveted the bounty of the mineral-laden bath salts, the skin-revitalizing mud baths and the intoxicating balsamic perfumes extracted from the oases that her lover, Marc Anthony, led his troops into a fierce and bloody war to secure the region for his beautiful Queen.

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