If you’ve already made a basic bath salt, but you want to produce a more professional product, you’ll love these simple techniques. They’ll make your bath salts less “homebrew” and more spa-quality. Once you start using them, you will feel more confident giving your handmade bath salts as gifts or presenting them for sale at a store or craft fair.

All of these techniques are just twists or extensions on what you already know. Doing them takes no more time than putting together basic bath salts.

1) The “secret” ingredient – dendritic salt.

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Himalayan salt comes from a low-lying region situated in the first foothills of the Himalayas, over an area of approximately 200 square miles, in the northwest of Pakistan. The sea covering this region evaporated due to climatic changes. Powerful tectonic movements gave rise to the Himalayan range. The enormous pressure accompanying the buckling of the Earth’s crust provoked the formation of cubic crystalline structures comparable to those of precious stones (from the bio-energetical point of view).

They are also perfect for placing in offices to reduce fatigue and minimize the effects of computer screen radiation. Use at home around smokers and near the television to neutralize smoke and reduce radiation. As the lamps are used, they trap dirt and pollutants on the rock crystal. When the buildup obvious, all that is necessary is to lightly brush the lamp with a soft, damp rag top remove the impurities. Lamps vary in size and shape from 5 pounds to 25 pounds. Votive Holders, Salt Soaks, and Table Salt Crystals are also available.

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Bath salts are varieties of different water-soluble inorganic products that have been created to its utmost perfection. This is to be combined with your bath for cleansing and provide an improved sense of well being. Nothing is more relaxing and beneficial than to be treated in a luxurious bath filled with wonderful soothing bath salts.

Nothing is more relaxing and beneficial than to be treated in a luxurious bath filled with wonderful soothing bath salts. Way back in history, bath salts have been used for healing purposes. The Father of Medicine, namely Hippocrates, discovered the powerful benefits of using salt while bathing. He found out that injuries could be healed with salt that is combined with water. He also discovered that bath salts even alleviated the pain brought about by certain wounds. Plus, it can promote cell rejuvenation due to the enhanced exchange of toxins and minerals in the bloodstream.

The ancient Greeks, as formulated by Hippocrates, continued this practice. Then on the year 1753, Dr. Charles Russell, along with an English doctor, published the book “The Uses of Sea Water.”

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Salt is the essence of life. Over the centuries it’s been gifted to Kings and Queens. Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba were well familiar with it as a beauty enhancer. Wars were fought over it, islands invaded, Indians or Africans forced to mine the it for European countries. Sayings were attributed to its benefits. “You are the salt of the Earth,” meant you were beyond good. “Take it with a grain of salt” was to practice preventive medicine. It was high praise to be said you were “worth your salt”.

The word salary comes from the word salt as Roman soldiers were given salt as part of their pay. In fact Hippocrates and other healers bathed their patients in salt water as part of the healing ritual. The Chinese, always up on natural healing, were using it in medicine in 2700 BCE. What’s the point? The point is it is one of the most vital elements for your health, has gotten a bad rap the last several years, and as a result, in the name of “health”, many people are avoiding the thing that they need the most.

Salt, in its natural form, is harvested in one of two ways, either the evaporation method or underground mining. In the evaporation method, ocean water is allowed to flood shallow basins. When the water evaporates, the crystal left behind is harvested. This is unrefined and is mainly used in cosmetics and bath products for its healing and therapeutic benefits. Underground mining produces rock salt, which is generally considered not to have the healing properties of sea salt. The kind you use normally for cooking is refined through heating, stripping of minerals and the addition of iodine. Iodine was added in the 1920′s as a way to combat iodine deficiency that was showing up in Americans, particularly in the Northwest, and in the Great Lakes area. It worked to cure iodine deficiency, but this over processed salt started the health risks we are experiencing today.

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Too much Sodium (Salt) can be Deadly and take 10 years or more off of your life. Most Americans consume three to four times more Salt than they need. Accumulated Salt over the years clogs up the blood vessels by accumulating within arterial walls (endothelium layer of blood vessels) helping to form plaque and other potentially life shortening blood flow restricting blockages in blood vessels. In addition, too much Salt also contributes dangerously to blood vessels becoming more inelastic (unable to expand to accommodate sufficient blood flow) and brittle which can also severely restrict blood flow and cause dangerous breaks in blood vessel walls with dangerous complications.

So when you serve Corn on the Cob this summer, it’s ok to add a pat of natural butter, just don’t also add the extra salt. Learn to enjoy the real natural taste of foods this summer. Remember to always use Garlic powder or natural Garlic pressings and not Garlic salt on those summer meals. If you absolutely have to add a little salt as you gradually wean yourself from using salt then use the more natural based Sea Salt varieties, available at all Health Food Stores and even at many Grocery stores. Don’t settle for the very cheap and much less healthier normal table salt variety.

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