Bath Salts – Salt Selection Guide
Why take a sea salt bath when a regular bath is plenty relaxing? Adding a little sea salt to the bath can stimulate circulation, ease muscle cramps, help relieve stiffness in joints, aid with arthritis or back pain, and soothe achy, overworked legs and feet. Plus sea salt helps cleanse and detoxify the largest organ in the body – your skin.
Bath Salt can be made from several different types of salt, and comes in many grades. At SaltWorks, we guarantee our salts are the highest grade available anywhere on the planet. 100% authentic, and natural. Below is a list of sea salts that can be used as a luxurious bath salt on their own; or they can be combined with other salts, herbs, scented oils and/or colors to make a bath salt blend.
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Ancient Sea Salt
Other Names: Jurassic Sea Salt, Rio
150 million years ago dinosaurs had no idea about salt. Lucky for us, ancient sea salt deposits were also protected from pollutants by layers of volcanic eruptions. These days, careful, sustainable harvesting unearths some of the finest, most beneficial bath salts available anywhere in the world.
Buy Now: Himalayan Pink (shown),Bolivian Rose
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Atlantic Sea Salt
Atlantic sea salts are collected in an ecosystem known as a mangrove area. The purity of Atlantic sea salt is accomplished naturally by a filtration process involving plants and shellfish.
Buy Now: Ceara (shown),Rio
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Coarse Salt
(see also Fine Salt)
Coarse sea salt is medium grain salt about 2-3mm in size. It’s ideal for sprinkling in the tub to dissolve for a bath. Coarse sea salts are a great addition to therapeutic bath salt blends with scented oils, as their size helps absorb the oils easily.
Buy Now: Rio Crystals (shown),Himalayan Crystals
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Crystal Sea Salt
Large crystal sea salt chunks are ideal for the person who wants to dangle a satchel from the water spout, and let the water run over sea salt rocks on its way to the tub. Crystal sea salts can be used again and again.
Buy Now: Rio Crystals (shown),Himalayan Crystals
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Dead Sea Salt
The world’s first Day Spa was set up by Cleopatra on the shores of the Dead Sea. The “woman who time could not wither” and countless others have testified to the benefits of this special sea salt. Dead Sea salts differ from other sea salts in mineral content.
You can bring that experience home with our guaranteed authentic Dead Sea bath salts. Dead Sea baths aid with common dry skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. They’re known to reduce pain and inflammation from arthritis and rheumatism. The high mineral count is credited with cleansing and detoxification of the skin. There’s even a bit of calcium, your bones will love it!
Buy Now: Bokek™ Dead Sea Salt
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Dendritic Salt
At SaltWorks, we have a love-hate relationship with Dendritic salt. Dendritic is a highly purified sodium chloride that is crystallized under special conditions. In other words, dendritic salt is commercially manufactured, created by man, rather than a natural, carefully harvested product of the earth like the sea salts we specialize in.
Fans of dendritic salt like its absorbative capacity. A relatively small amount can be a great addition to bath salt blends. It helps maintain fragrance, holds essential oils stronger and for longer, requires less pigment, and reduces clumping. It’s a preservative for sea salt bath blends. It doesn’t have any therapeutic benefits that we know of.
We don’t currently carry or sell any dendritic salt at SaltWorks.
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Epsom Salt
Other Names: Magnesium Sulfate
News flash! Epsom Salt isn’t actually salt. It should be called Epsom “Salt.” Or Epsom Salt-like. Epsom salt is a pure mineral compound of magnesium sulfate in crystal form, so it looks an awful lot like salt. But it has no sodium chloride. Sodium chloride is salt. Salt is sodium chloride. We like to have all of the facts on the table here at SaltWorks.
Even though it isn’t salt, we don’t deny the many time-proven benefits of Epsom. A lot of people are magnesium deficient, which can be to blame for a number of maladies including: heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis and joint pain, digestive problems, and chronic fatigue.
A number of factors work against magnesium sulfate if you ingest it. So, the very best way to benefit from this mineral is in the bath. A dose of Epsom in your bath salts will power it up, make it extra strength.
Buy Now: TheraSoak Epsom Salt
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European Spa Salt
Ideal for blending with essential oils for scrubs and body treatments. Available in two grains: fine, and coarse.
Fine grain is similar in size to table salt. Fine is great for exfoliating scrubs and body treatments, as well in bath salt blends with herbs and powders.
Coarse is medium grain, closer to grinder salt. Absorbs essential oils easily, and is great for therapeutic bath soaks and blends.
Buy Now: EuroSpa
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Gray Salt
Other Names: Sel Gris • Celtic Salt • Brittany Salt
Gray bath salt is hand-harvested on the island of Noirmoutier near Brittany, France. The gray color is indicative of the salt’s sea origins. Unwashed, unrefined, and additive-free, this gray bath salt maintains all of its health-enhancing nutrients vital to the human body like calcium, potassium, copper, zinc, iron and others. This salt is low in sodium, and certified Organic by the Agriculture Biologique FrancAaise (ABL – French Organic Farming).
Buy Now: Breton
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Hawaiian Red Salt
Other Names: Alaea • Alae • Volcanic Salt
Hawaiian Red Salt, also known as Alaea sea salt, is a natural, unprocessed salt. It gets it’s distinctive color from the red clay present in the enviroment. Volcanic red clay is high in iron oxide. The recommended use of Hawaiian Red salt in your bath includes healing wounds, body aches, and muscle sprains. It is believed to draw toxins from overworked muscle tissue. Mix Hawaiian Red salt with one of our white bath salts for a great combination.
Buy Now: Alaea Hawaiian Sea salt
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Mediterranean Sea Salt
See European salt
Buy Now: EuroSpa
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Organic salt
Organic salt cannot be "organically grown", as it is a mineral, not a plant. If you are looking for "Certified Organic" sea salt then you are looking for salt with the Nature & Progrés and BIO-GRO certification. This certification is awarded to saltworks that are located in a nature reserve, without risk of pollution, producing strictly by hand, without purifying the salt, and fulfilling the high standards of chemical analytics.
Organic sea salt retains all its original vital elements, as it is not processed or refined.
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Sea Salt
Obtainted naturally from evaporating sea water, sea salt is hailed for its health-enhancing minerals, subtle flavor, therapeutic properties, and all-natural harvesting process. Sea salt is opposite from regular table salt, which is mined and chemically treated.
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Solar Salt
A white chunky salt that is best blended with other salts. The large, bright crystal is very attractive when blended with smaller grains, such as Epsom salt or European spa salt. Solar salt dissolves slowly in water.
SaltWorks currently carries no Solar salt.
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Sulfur Salt / Kala Namak / Black Salt
Other Names: Kala Namak • Sanchal • Black Salt
Not actually black in color, rather a pinkish gray. Very popular in France, Spain, and Japan for a wide variety of conditions including skin infections, inflammations, and respiratory problems. Sulfur salt is an unrefined mineral salt, natural disinfectant, and has a strong purifying and re-mineralizing effect on the body. Harvested in the volcanic regions of Pakistan and India, black salt is a staple in India’s classical Ayurvedic healing methods.
Warning: Bathing in sulfur salt is similar to bathing in sulfuric thermal springs, including the smell!
Buy Now: Kala Namak (shown)
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