Salt & Sundries

A word about salt:
We are told salt is bad for us, but that’s not strictly true. The wrong salt can be bad for you if you take too much of it into the body. But ask yourself where the salt we buy comes from, and is it the best salt we can use? 

White salt has been cleaned, and most of its 84 inherent minerals removed, hence we get nice white ‘clean’ salt. In fact, the salt we buy from supermarkets is nothing more than sodium, no minerals are left: all you are left with is a taste. Sea salt is often an alternative people use, it’s from the sea, it must be good? But most seas are polluted, and the salt that comes from it undergoes the same rigorous cleaning away of its minerals that any other salt does. The same can be said for rock salt, it too undergoes the cleaning process, removing all 84 of its inherent minerals.

Yet the human body needs salt; our salt levels are crucial to our well being and balance. Most physiological and biological processes function correctly only when sufficient quantities of salt are present. The balance of water in the body affects every system in the body, including the brain; the electrodes that fire thought need a certain amount of salt to function properly. Yet most people lack the nutrients that unrefined salt provide, making us sluggish in thought and action.

As far as we are aware there is one salt which contains all the 84 minerals it started out with.

Himalayan Crystalline Salt is the result of mineral enriched oceans that dried and crystallized 250 million years ago. The salt was subjected to compression under the earth’s surface and has resulted in the most perfect structure possible in rock crystals. The harder the crystals were compacted, the more perfect the structure of the salt. Himalayan Crystalline Salt is pink in colour, it can be used in grinders for adding to food, it can be rubbed on the body, or dissolved in bath water. There are many ways of using salt to take advantage of the 84 minerals it contains.