Author: Fubi
Source: articlerich.com
Did you know you can use salt to give your skin a healthy glow? Salt is an ancient, natural beauty secret! But don’t reach for the refined sodium chloride table salt in your saltshaker. You’ll need Original Himalayan Crystal Salt, which still retains its full spectrum of beneficial minerals.
The most effective natural salt for skin treatments is that mined in the majestic Himalayan Mountains. Millions of years ago–when our planet Earth was a pristine ecosystem–a primordial sea was evaporated by the sun, leaving absolutely pure crystalline salt that contains the 84 minerals and trace elements essential to health. Today, this salt still retains the bioenergetic qualities of an unpolluted planet.
Here’s how natural salt works to beautify your skin. Skin protects the internal functions of our bodies from outside influences and is our body’s largest organ of purification. To function optimally, our skin needs neutral pH factors. Most skin care products from the cosmetics industry make our skin more acid. Natural salt can regulate the pH of the skin to its optimum level through its balancing and neutralizing effects.
HEALING PROBLEM SKIN
Acne, unhealthy skin, and eczema can all be greatly helped by the application of salt mixed with water. This releases the healing properties of natural salt.
To make the salt solution, add enough Original Himalayan Crystal Salt Stones to pure water to fully saturate the water with salt. You can tell when the water is fully saturated because you cannot dissolve any more salt into the water, and the salt crystals will just sit in the bottom of the glass. Use a coarse ground salt or salt stones. Place them in the bottom of a glass, add water, and allow the salt to dissolve. If it dissolves completely, add more. When the salt crystals will no longer dissolve, the water is fully saturated. An 8-ounce glass of water will take several tablespoons of salt.
Once a day apply this salt solution to the troubled areas and allow it to absorb into the skin. Do not use any creams or other skin treatments.
Twice a week, mix this salt solution with powdered clay to make a mud mask. Apply the mask to your skin and let it soak in for 15-20 minutes, then remove the dried mask with a wet washcloth.
Though initial worsening of the skin is possible, once this phase passes, the skin improves dramatically.
BATHING BEAUTY
Though many “bath salts” made of refined salt and artificial fragrances are sold, natural salt in the bath has real beauty and health benefits.
Unlike regular baths, which pull moisture from the skin, the upper callous layer of the skin absorbs and holds salt from the natural salt bath, binding water and bringing moisture into the skin. This maintains the skin’s natural protective film and keeps the skin from drying out.
In addition, toxins from the body are released into the bath water through osmosis, while the minerals from the salt are absorbed through the skin. A 30-minute bath containing natural salt has the detoxifying effects of a three-day fast!
To make a natural salt bath, you’ll need two pounds of the Original Himalayan Crystal Salt for an average-size bathtub. Pour the entire contents of the bag into your bathtub. Add enough water to just cover the salt and let it dissolve for a half hour. Then fill your bathtub with body temperature water (98.6 degrees — check it with a thermometer). Do not add any other bath products–just the salt. Soak 15-30 minutes.
If you want to optimize the benefits of the Original Himalayan Crystal Salt Bath, take a bath to absorb minerals at the new moon and a bath to detox the body at the full moon.
Bodies love a natural salt bath, for it is like bathing in a primal sea. It rejuvenates and revitalizes, using the healing power of nature.
Hilde Bschorr is the Owner of Himalayan Living Salt, an online purveyor of natural, unrefined, living salt products. Visit her website at http://www.himalayanlivingsalt.com.