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Using Aromatherapy Candles

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by Sudanna Saiah, Sue Dana Saiah

Aromatherapy candles provide fast and easy relief mental and emotional stress.

Pure Plant Materials

Aromatherapy candles must be made from pure, natural plant-based products. This is different from the common commercial candle.

Organic

They are available in different sizes, shapes and styles. They can be made of vegetable waxes, soy or beeswax - not plant, but very good quality natural.

Transformational

You can transform a room with a simple candle. It sets the atmosphere, a soothing tone and the aroma permeates the senses.

Mind and Mood

Candles give off a warm, soothing light as they release their essential oil vapors into the air to take our senses.

Essential Oils for Every Mood

Choose lavender to relax. A selection of rose, vanilla or sandalwood ensure peacefulness and have a soft, it not romantic touch. Lift your spirits with citrus, and energize yourself with green herbal scents like pine, basil or rosemary.

The Color of Aromatherapy

Most aromatherapy candles are colorless. Color can affect mood too, just make sure your candle has not artificial additives to create that color.

Conclusion

Place your aromatherapy candle in any room at any time of day or night. Enjoy in the bath, by the bed, or while watching television. Use while reading or studying for a more pleasant experience.

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The Healing Properties of Aromatherapy bath Salts

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by Sudanna Saiah

Bath Salts and Essential Oils Aromatherapy essential oils in a bath salt, such as epsom or dead sea salt adds the healing benefits of the oils for a super relieving bath.

Benefits The healing properties of the salts and those of the essential oils fortify one another. This is a great way to get relief from aches and pains, to relax and distress or detoxify tissues and heal troubled skin.

Detoxification The salts work to pull toxins such as lactic acid and others from the tissues. In this way your troubles really do “melt away.” Dead Sea salt is the most potent detoxifier. It is very beneficial for chronic skin conditions.

Greater Relief The effectiveness of dead sea salt has been proven in studies. 80% of participants with everything from rheumatism and arthritis to chronic painful skin conditions experienced relief after a dead sea salt bath.

All Salts are Not the Same

Sea Salt Sea salt is salt natural, organic mineral salts, which comprise the salt found in the seas and oceans. Natural sea salt is rich in trace minerals and electrolytes. It is important for nutrition and these minerals work directly on the skin as well to heal and to relives muscle tension and toxins from tissues.

Dendritic Salt Dendritic salt is commonly used in commercial bath salt preparations to prevent caking and extend shelf life. It holds scents well and dissolves easily. In spite of these apparent benefits, it is table salt, which is sodium chloride without the beneficial trace minerals and electrolytes. Also is it chemically altered chemically altered using slightly toxic ferrous cyanide. Although it is considered safe for synthetic fragrances, nothing like this should ever be used with essential oils, which may enable passing membranes. That is why in aromatherapy we never use any harmful, synthetic or chemical ingredients.

Dead Sea Salt This is the queen of all therapeutic salts. Imported from the Dead Sea in Israel. It has a unique mineral profile and unsurpassed density. It is so much more concentrated than sea salt. The dead Sea is 33.7% salt - that is 8.6 times more salty than the ocean. It is so salty that it cannot support life. Don’t drink it - it is deadly salty. Also whereas most salts are mostly sodium chloride - the ocean is 96% - the Dead sea salt is high in health giving electrolytes: calcium, magnesium and potassium. The mineral can rejuvenates tissues, detoxify and relax muscles. They relieve pain. Use dead sea salts in a bath or scrub, to soak away the pain literally. There is a reason the dead Sea was and is a famous natural healing spa. The high mineral content imparts significant healing properties to this salt making it the premier aromatherapy salt.

Epsom Salt Epsom salt is magnesium salt. It comes form regular salt water with the table salt removed magnesium is a natural laxative and muscle relaxer. It also removes toxins from the muscles. It will sooth an aching back or tires limbs. It is widely available and inexpensive. Add some essential oils to relax the mind and relieve stress and you have a great bath.

Pickling Salt Pickling salt is just sodium chloride - table salt - with no additives. It is a very fine grade that dissolves thoroughly and immediately. This is the main advantage of pickling salt over table salt. Also because it has no additives, it can cake, but it stays clear with no discoloration. You can get it at the grocery store. Still this is better for pickling than for bath salts.

European Spa Salt This is a chic name for Mediterranean sea salt. This is the premier choice for your kitchen and dinner table. It is an organic sea salt with healthy minerals and electrolytes without the high sodium chloride, which is bad for the health. As a bath salt is does not have the nigh concentration of minerals of dead sea salt or the magnesium of Epsom salt.

Solar Salt This very coarse grain salt has a pretty look that is favored in spa salts. Don’t let the look fool you. This salt is sold for use in aquariums. It takes a while to dissolve in warm water and because it comes from salt water lakes, it can contain pesticides. It also has enough mineral content for fish, but not enough really for great therapeutic value. It can be mixed with finer salts to make them prettier.

Hawaiian Red Salt Hawaiian Red Salt, called Alaea sea salt, contains volcanic red clay. The red clay has healing properties of its own. The clay draws out toxins and helps heal cuts, wounds, and treats infections such as sore throats and infections. It is also healing to muscle strains.

Icelandic Brine Salt Icelandic Brine Salt is taken from a steaming hot (plus 300 degrees subterranean pool. This pool is a mile below the surface of Iceland. It has 60% less sodium chloride than regular salts, and is rich in silica. Silica is essential for bone, joints, hair and nails. It also has a healthy composition of trace minerals. Icelandic Brine Salt dissolves easily in water and due to the low sodium chloride and to the silica present, it makes the skin super smooth and silky. It is great for dry, itchy or flakey skin.

Black Sea Pink Salt This salt from the Black Sea, which is rich in coral reefs, contains large amounts of beneficial halophilic bacteria. The bacteria and the naturally high mineral content are remarkably healing for skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis. It is the bacteria that give the pink color. It relieves the pain of arthritis and rheumatism. It was used as an ancient’s youthful skin secret.

Conclusion Aromatherapy bath salts make a wonderful healing gift for yourself or others.

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About Aromatherapy

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by Dana Saiah

Why is it Called a Therapy? The therapeutic use of pure plant essential oils to enhance health and wellness is aromatherapy.

Pure and Quality: Are They the Same? The effectiveness of essential oils is dependent on purity and quality of the oil, so purchase only high grade oils from a reputable aromatherapist. Quality comes from growing climate, soil and harvesting. The oils vary with the location, season and growers. Purity is determined by whether or not contaminants or trash parts have gotten into the essential oil in the handling or extraction. The oil must also be undiluted by rough handling, machines or by being cut by the retailer to boost profits.

Large Volume to Get Small Volume The fact that it takes an enormous amount of specific parts of plants to extract even a very small amount of pure oil, makes essential oils - especially those from certain plants, very expensive. Add to this many of the delicate parts must be harvested and separated by hand. It is tremendously labor intensive. This is also why an ounce of essential oil is so very much more potent than an ounce of fresh or dry herb or plant. The oil is the potent part of the plant with all of the bulk waste removed.

Reliable Sources This is why you are not going to find high quality oils that are suitable for therapeutic use available over the counter in stores, and especially not in the large discount and drug stores servicing the everyday needs of the general public. You certainly will not find them in scented plug ins, air fresheners and cheap scented candles. Good quality products involve a lot of care and effort and they also cannot be blending in any toxic base without ruining them and creating an unhealthy, non-therapeutic product. So, in spite of the widely bandied about use of the term “aromatherapy” today, let the buyer beware - unless you are buying real therapeutic products from a professional source, it is not really aromatherapy. In fact if used to refer to a pleasant smell that uplifts the emotions just because you find it so, the proper term is perfume, air freshener or disinfectant.

Chemotype vs. Chemistry Aromatherapy is not scent. It is the effect of a chemotype on the body system through absorption and assimilation. A nice small can affect our mood, but moreover, an essential oil affect s mood (and other things) by interaction with our body chemistry on a physical level. The essence of the plant is the part containing the chemotypes, or the chemistry of the plant, that which can affect other systems and react with other chemistries.

The Drawbacks of Extracting Chemotypes Occasionally some chemotypes are extracted and put into formulations. Although the chemotypes are the same, the quality and handing is not, and the extraction often negates the overall beneficial effect that is rendered by synergies of all elements and properties within the natural compound. A drop of pure essential oil is composed of a few or several chemotypes. It is the combination that gives it the unique properties. The chemotypes do not have the same effect or effectiveness when isolated and used alone. This is why natural medicine, essential oils and herbs and natural vitamins and minerals are far superior to those synthesized.

Science is Good This is not to say that we should shun pharmaceutical products. Science has enabled man to increase potency, duration in the blood stream, timed release, sustained action and to more specifically target actions. Drugs give us more control. They also are far less expensive than natural essences and the quality is standardized to a degree which you cannot with natural products.

Essential Oils at Work

Holistic Therapy Natural plant essences work on many levels, unlike a synthetic. They work on the emotional body and the spiritual body as well as our physical bodies. They affect our moods, and our environment as well. Because they work on many levels we could say they are more effective, as they do more things at once.

Across the Border Essential oils are absorbed into the body and enter the bloodstream where they are distributed thought the body to all organs and systems immediately. It only takes 7 to 10 seconds for the blood to have it distributed throughout the whole body. This is one ways in which essential oils are so effective - no waiting to be digested. The action is quick and direct. These exceptionally small molecules are even able to pass the blood brain barrier and interact with our neurochemicals to affect our mood directly - more than a pretty scent - a real mood adjustment. This ability to be so easily absorbed, be quickly distributed and to interact with our chemistry so directly means oils with different properties can be used effectively to treat all organ systems equally well. Essential oils can balance hormones, kill bacteria and viruses, and act as stimulants, anti-depressants or sedatives.

How are Essential Oils Used?

Professional Uses All forms of massage and bodywork are greatly enhanced by the use of essential oils. They enhance the experience for the clients and enable the therapist to do more effective work with less strain.

Benefits of Essential Oils in Massage reduction of inflammation muscle relaxation Toning organ systems increased circulation mental relaxation pain relief Relieve ki blockages Cleanse the lymph Cleansing -detoxification Breaking down scar tissue Help break down fatty deposits

Home Use Essential oils may be used at home in diffusers, candles (real aromatherapy candles), incense (real incense), bath salts, lotions, body oils and sprays. There are many methods and purposes for essential oils in the home.

Aromatherapy Blends Aromatherapists create blends called synergies, in which the essential oils work together synergistically, having a greater modified effect than they might have alone. They use the essential oils to balance, temper, and buffer or enhance other essential oils in the blend. They also create new synergistic effects through combinations.

Home Blends There are many blends you can create on your own for home use, for effective, yet safe aromatherapy products. Choose something you like that suits your mood, or for a certain effect, such as if you are anxious, and want to relax, or need help sleeping or waking up.

Use this Site as Your Resource All of the information that you need is on this site, and there are several recipes too. If you have questions, just contact the Alchemist on this site or the Health and Wellness Blog. If you do not find some information on this site that you want, just let me know. You are also welcome to contribute your own stories and recipes here. www.alchemistsroom.us/aromatherapy-recipes-share.php

Alchemy by The Alchemist I created the following categories for my blends. The last category is a product that is my own unique creation. The second contains a line of blends to be used with the Tarot.

1. Therapeutic Blends 2. Meditation Blends 3. Therapeutic Perfumes.

Therapeutic Blends These are “medicinal,” they are treatments, to address a specific need, illness or problem.

Meditation Blends It is easy to see how the exquisite scents of the aromatherapy oils can transport us and assist us in reaching a meditative estate. Once on our journey, the choice of blend can help us to invoke the wisdom and spirit attitude we are trying to achieve. Churches and temples have long values essential oils for this purpose, using the potent incenses in the services. The essences were thought to be magical.

Aromatherapy of the Tarot I have been reading tarot since I was a teen and combined with some study in various tarot and mysticism, I developed a line of blends used for tarot, personal growth using tarot and mediation. I call the Tarot Oils or Aromatherapy of the Tarot. They are effective for personal and spiritual growth and for overcoming emotional obstacles.

How to Use Meditation Blends Use mediation essential oils in diffusers, incense or in small vials for inhalation, mists, or dab a small amount on Chakra centers. They are great for enhancing and focusing energy work. You will find that you are drawn to the one that you need when you need it. You may be working on more than one at any given time. Use these for growth, as you meditate or just for enjoyment. They will support you no matter how you use them.

Therapeutic Perfumes Do not settle for just the scent when it can be helping your health and wellbeing in some way. Get double value out of your scent. Some of the added benefits you could get form a perfume include: weight loss, appetite suppression, hormone balancing, controlling anxiety, and strengthening the immune system, detoxify and cleanse your body. These are just a few. Also real perfume, the fine kind, is made from essential oils, make them the oils you need and you are on your way to better health, that easily.

Common Sense And Safety Essential oils are not regulated by the FDA As natural products, they work differently from pharmaceuticals, by helping to bring the body back into balance.

* IMPORTANT: For external use only. Keep away from children and pets. Not for use by pregnant or nursing women. Not for use by anyone with a seizure disorder. Careful to use proper oils with any blood disorder. Some oils raise blood pressure and some reduce it. Keep all natural; products tightly capped and in a cool place, out of sunlight.

Should I do a Book? I am constantly being asked for the recipes to my special blends. Until this site, I did not give out my secret formulas. Perhaps I will just put them in a book - the truth shall unfold.

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Understanding The Benefits Of Aromatherapy Oils

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by Torry Letre

Essential oils or aromatherapy oils have been around for thousands of years based on accounts that place the first uses of aromatherapy in 3,000 BC by the Egyptian people. The primary uses of aromatherapy oils and essential oils then was for embalming, cosmetics and medicinal purposes.

From the Egyptians the aromatherapy knowledge was then passed to the Greeks who took it to the next level with several discoveries regarding the physical effects of fragrances, herbs and flowers.

This knowledge was passed on to the Greeks and served as the basis for more discoveries, including the relaxing and stimulating effects of the fragrance of some flowers. Going back further, ancient man’s dependence on the environment for all his basic needs and survival led him to discover natural ways of food preservation and the treatment of various conditions using herbs and aromatics.

These days aromatherapy is almost synonymous with the alternative medicines definition of good health. Party because of the increase in costs of conventional medicine such as surgery and medicare and partly due to a better understanding of how aromatherapy works, these processes have been gaining a significant amount of attention and popularity.

The primary benefits of aromatherapy have to do with providing the basis for physical, mental and spiritual well being. All this achieved through entirely natural means. The primary components of aromatherapy are oils, aromatherapy oils or most commonly referred to as essential oils.

The oils are made from plants and herbs, fruit, flowers bark and other types of organic materials. According to experts it is not easy to get the essential oils from the plants. It is a difficult and time consuming process that requires expertise and patience. It is also expensive. For instance, to make a single 10ml of oil requires the processing of 220 pounds of rose pedals.

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A Deeper Look at the Reality of Aromatherapy

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by Helen Jackson

Aromatherapy in the United States really suffers from an image problem, and a few degreed ‘debunkers’ are not really helping the matter. Googling ‘aromatherapy’ returns thousands of results, and in the top 15 are sites belonging to allopathic medical professionals who seem to only have given a cursory glance at the practice, and chalked it up to New Age, feel-good balderdash. Horse manure. Bull -hockey. The trouble with their analysis is that they’re based on a very limited investigation, lumping all of aroma medicine in with every claim about the ’softer science’ of psycho-emotional aromatherapy healing. The result is that many folks whom may benefit from aroma medicine may not get it, and many physicians investigating alternative medicine modalities may overlook the true potentials of essential oils. What can be done to change aromatherapy’s touchy-feely image?

We can start by conceding that there is a soft-science side to a portion of aromatherapy’s practices. Really pinning-down whether inhaling lavender makes a statistically-significant difference in people’s emotional status seems pretty tricky anyway. How about we just leave this part up to the people that are into it? If lavender makes you feel good, whose to tell you differently? Aromatherapists are not out to convince the world inhaling plant scents will make you feel better — they’re just offering it as a possibility. Maybe it’ll work for you and maybe it won’t. Do try another aroma before you give up, but hey, maybe it won’t work for you, no big deal. AT THE SAME TIME, there are A GREAT MANY VALID SCIENTIFIC STUDIES showing statistically significant results regarding the psycho-emotional effects of lavender (and other essential oils). Along with those are even more studies testing essential oils on a wide variety of serious illnesses. Here’s a peek into the hard-science aspect of aromatherapy, and why the debunker’s of this medicine should really have another look.

The image problem of aromatherapy has everything to do with the prevailing idea that the practice is all about ’smelling things’, whereas the science really about ‘things that smell’. Smelling things is very subjective, and may have little medical effect at all (though we’ll see that it MAY as well). Aromatherapy is defined as the complete practice of the branch of natural medicine using the volatile liquids distilled from plants. Authors of the hard-science aromatherapy texts available today, professionally-trained aromatherapists (one with a PhD in Chemistry) note that the future of aroma medicine is with the treatment of serious infectious illnesses and cancer treatment. You don’t even have to smell them for them to work! Other effects of essential oils also being successfully investigated include speeding wound healing, reducing inflammation, and acting as analgesics.

You can read these research abstracts yourself by Googling ‘Pub Med’, and searching for ‘essential oil’ and things like ‘cancer’ or ’staphylococcus’ or ‘axiolytic’. You’ll find a few studies too that were inconclusive, like inhalation of a certain oil did not change the immune system stress marker researchers use. But there’s also another showing that EVERY OTHER marker of stress WAS changed. It may be the study chose the right oil, or the study population was better treated with the selected oil in some studies and not in others (one showed a stress reduction in women from lavender essential oil, but not in men). You’ll find a full page of results showing a statistically significant effect on stress from lavender and linalool. Try other combinations of pharmaceutical preparations and see if there are more significant results than that!

Many practitioners of conventional medicine have decided that natural medicines in general are ineffective at best, and at worst they are considered a cruel hoax. What seems to be the challenge is the availability of well educated natural therapists — our medical system is not set up to give these practitioners the respect (and payment) they deserve. So most folks go at it themselves, valiantly attempting self-diagnosis and treatment., while FDA demands the instructions for these treatments be in the most vague form possible! The result is comments like “It (aromatherapy) is a mixture of folklore, trial and error, anecdote, testimonial, New Age spiritualism and fantasy” (Stephen Barrett, M.D. of Quackwatch). Another popular site points to a few inconclusive studies and claims all of aromatherapy to be dubious. What if we used these same guidelines investigating conventional medicine? How many deaths occur each year from properly prescribed and used drugs? From medical mistakes? The combined total makes these about the third leading cause of death in America (after heart disease and cancer, but before auto fatalities and cigarette use — See Mercola.com, ‘Death by Medicine’). Guess the number caused by mis-use (or any use for that matter) of essential oils. What’s the smallest non-negative number you can think of? That’s the currently accepted statistic.

On to the cutting edge of aroma-medicine: The big news is that essential oils, yes very the same used in aromatherapy (this IS the idea we’re trying to get across!), are highly effective antibiotics and antivirals. Again, we invite you to search for ‘essential oil’ and ‘mrsa’ — this is the staphylococcus aureus bacteria ’superbug’ that has become resistant to commonly available antibiotics (the MR in the name stands for ‘methicillin resistant’). You’ll find studies showing the efficacy of Tea Tree essential oil in clinical applications, and positive results in the lab using several other oils. And thus far it is thought that these oils have no adverse effects at effective doses.

There’s a huge body of data affirming the strong anti-tumorial effects of essential oils. Linalool has been shown to completely destroy certain liver cancers. Frankincense has other powerful anticancer action — cellular toxicity that’s specific to tumors! (One of the great challenges of chemotherapy is killing the cancer cells without killing the rest of the human). Lemongrass too has “promising anticancer activity”. Search for yourself and you’ll find more pages than you can get through any time soon.

While its easy to snub aromatherapy as New-Agey and soft, it’s so much more helpful to really know the score. We’re talking about medicines with huge curative potentials, and limited side effects. And they smell good — how many medicines have THAT going for them? Now it the time to change the miss-perception of natural medicine in general, and the therapeutic use of essential oils in particular. Educate yourself on the valuable research being performed. Use the term ‘aroma-medicine’ instead. Clarify that aromatherapy is really the therapeutic use of medicinal plant extracts, and while some folks appreciate the smell, that’s just the surface of the entire branch of this healing modality. A little noise from us can change the way the graciously uninformed think about the healing potential of these wonderful oils.

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Bath Salts for Aromatherapy

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by Sue Dana Saiah

The Essential Bath Salt Essential oils with bath salts give you more relaxation, more soothing pain relieve and make for a truly healing experience.

Better than Plain Salt Choose the essential oil by the properties you want for your bath. Any can be combined with bath salts. Choose lavender for relaxation, chamomile or sleep, birch or peppermint for achy muscles.

Potent Detoxifier Salts help the body to heal by removing toxins. By detoxifying the tissues the muscles relax, the skin heals and you feel calm and relaxed.

Reduce Pain Clinical studies have shown that 80 percent of patients with osteoarthritis and also with psoriasis had less pain after a bath with aromatherapy essential oils and dead sea salt.

All Salts are Not the Same

Sea Salt Sea salt is salt natural, organic mineral salts, which comprise the salt found in the seas and oceans. Natural sea salt is rich in trace minerals and electrolytes. It is important for nutrition and these minerals work directly on the skin as well to heal and to relives muscle tension and toxins from tissues.

Dendritic Salt Dendritic salt is commonly used in commercial bath salt preparations to prevent caking and extend shelf life. It holds scents well and dissolves easily. In spite of these apparent benefits, it is table salt, which is sodium chloride without the beneficial trace minerals and electrolytes. Also is it chemically altered chemically altered using slightly toxic ferrous cyanide. Although it is considered safe for synthetic fragrances, nothing like this should ever be used with essential oils, which may enable passing membranes. That is why in aromatherapy we never use any harmful, synthetic or chemical ingredients.

Dead Sea Salt This is the choice bath salt. The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest level land on the planet and this sea has the highest salt concentration in the world. It is also more dense in trace minerals and electrolytes than any other salt. Because of this nothing can live in the Dead Sea - it is 33.7% salt - almost 9 times that of the ocean. It is not safe to drink it - even a little. It is wonderfully healing when you soak in it though! You will find is deeply relaxing and relieving. Enjoy a bit of this ancient natural healing spa in your own home.

Epsom Salt Epsom salt comes from salt water that has had the sodium chloride removed. This leaves a high concentration of magnesium, which is soothing to the muscles - a natural relaxant. It detoxifies by pulling lactic acid from the body. It is inexpensive and you can get it in most local pharmacy, supercenters and supermarkets.

Pickling Salt Pickling salt is appreciated for is fineness which allows it to dissolve instantly. Also for its clear color. It is just table salt, but with no additives to prevent caking to discolor it. It can be found at the grocer, but it has little value as a bath salt.

European Spa Salt European spa salt is simply Mediterranean sea salt. It is similar to table salt, but is an organic sea salt with higher concentrations of beneficial electrolytes.

Solar Salt This attractive chucky grain salt is popular in aromatherapy salt jars. This is the same salt you buy for aquariums, so you certainly can soak in it. It takes a while to dissolve in warm water. Make sure whatever you buy is pure because coming from salt water lakes, it can contain pesticides. You never want something like that in any aromatherapy blend. The mineral content is like sea salt - natural and good, but for therapeutic baths we really prefer something stronger.

Hawaiian Red Salt This red salt gets its color from Hawaiian volcanic red clay. The red clay is rich in its own healing properties. Clay removes toxins and even infections. For this reason it is used for sore throats, wounds, and cold sores. Its antibacterial properties along with that of salt help heal cuts and sores. The red clay salt is also great for muscle injuries.

Icelandic Brine Salt Icelandic Brine Salt is taken from a steaming hot (plus 300 degrees subterranean pool. This pool is a mile below the surface of Iceland. It has 60% less sodium chloride than regular salts, and is rich in silica. Silica is essential for bone, joints, hair and nails. It also has a healthy composition of trace minerals. Icelandic Brine Salt dissolves easily in water and due to the low sodium chloride and to the silica present, it makes the skin super smooth and silky. It is great for dry, itchy or flakey skin.

Black Sea Pink Salt This salt from the Black Sea, which is rich in coral reefs, contains large amounts of beneficial halophilic bacteria. The bacteria and the naturally high mineral content are remarkably healing for skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis. It is the bacteria that give the pink color. It relieves the pain of arthritis and rheumatism. It was used as an ancient’s youthful skin secret.

Conclusion Treat yourself to the healing today. It takes no more time and you get much more results.

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