Aside from seasoning your food, being told that too much salt will cause hypertension and adding it to a warm water soak, what do you know about salt?

Did you know that salt can actually be used as a healing modality for some of you. It’s known as Halotherapy or salt therapy.

Where did it come from?

It was discovered while workers were deep underground extracting salt. Salt particles were inhaled and also landed on the miner’s skin. the physicians noticed how healthy the miners were and began to tell the rest of the population. What they discovered were the unique properties of dry salt and how it differs from wet ocean or moist salt.

The first Halogenerators were developed in the Ukraine. They were used to crush and grind the dry salt into a specific micronized particle and then disperse the salt into a room or chamber.

What are the benefits of dry salt therapy?

For skin benefits, dry salt therapy allows the micro particles to penetrate deep into the  layers of your skin to draw out excess fluid and oils. It also kills bacteria and increases your skin’s cell micro-circulation.

Dry salt helps in maintaining your skins rigidity, the ability to bounce back. Halotherapy (salt therapy) has been known to reduce swelling and inflammation, helping conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and acne.

For respiratory and health benefits, dry salt therapy is a natural complimentary method that’s being used in spa treatments. When pure dry sodium chloride (NaCl) is crushed into micronized particles and dispersed into a room or chamber, it can be inhaled into your respiratory system. The dry salt serves as an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory as it absorbs the foreign particles.

Dry salt acts like a sponge as it travels down the respiratory tract. It absorbs excess mucus and foreign elements, moving them through your system. As an antibacterial, it targets viruses and other bacteria in your system. As an anti-inflammatory it helps open restricted airways to provide relief for those of you with asthma, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, allergies and other respiratory conditions.

Personal Experience …

I had an opportunity to experience a salt room. It was a room filled with Himalayan salt walls. I must admit, I’d just finished getting a full body massage and the salt room was suggested as a relaxing room to extend the benefits of the massage. I slept like a baby, my daughter had to come and get me.

If you don’t know anything about salt theapy, your first thought is going to be what will this do for me and will too much salt be detrimental to my health? As people of color, we’ve been trained to think of salt as being a bad thing. Bad things typically happen when we overindulge. The rule of “overindulge” applies to life in general. Too much of a “good thing” can be bad for you.

If you ever get an opportunity to experience a salt room, do it. At least you will know for yourself whether or not it works for you.

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That’s it for this week, as always …

Dedicated to Your Beauty,

Juliette Samuel
Esthetician/Author/Publisher/Aromatherapist

Nyraju Skin Care