Salt - good and bad quality

Johann

rule of thumb..salt should be from a natural and unprocessed location..whether its black salt, blue salt, red salt, pink salt or white sea salt all good..the colors indicate different mineral content. table salt has been heated to 1200 degrees in its processing so there is no nutritional benefit just sodium concerns, meaning table salt has the potassium removed during the processing thus it is no longer able to balance your sodium levels. this is a great article https://blog.paleohacks.com/salt/ , Chris Kresser has lots of research into salt and sodium as well

PS when my body calls for it, I eat pink rock salt and drink from a salt sole daily..great to stimulate the adrenals

Happy Healing
heather

LaurieLovesLearning

We quit buying table salt except for a cheap way to help clean up spills in the oven. Coarse white salt we use for making real ice cream. White table salt usually contains sugar...and so then that is not really salt! (Kind of like most cheeses are made of or contain sugars and mystery "butter oils"...non dairy, hidden as "modified milk ingredients")

We have bought pinkish sea salts. Some fine grind, some coarse. I use it in my cheese making as well as most other normal food uses. I have not paid a lot of attention to brand, except that I like to know the area it is from and always check the ingredient list for any additives.

The recent noise in the media in Canada is about plastics in our salt...so, of course most noteably, sea salt because it is from the plastic-polluted oceans. I wondered where the plastics-in-our-oceans rhetoric in the media was going. I believe the oceans are polluted. No doubt there is contamination in anything ocean derived.

My guess on this more recent twist, however, is the table salt guys going after the sea salt companies. I am sure there was a big loss in profits as people switched.

Johann

Thanks so much for the info given! Less than a year ago I stopped with table salt and bought a better one in favor but this salt has the same bleached color. Maybe I switched just to a "better" table salt. Nice mistake...

Meanwhile I looked for alternative salt, but it seems not easy to get. You suggest to order salt online? Sounds a bit crazy for me to be honest. ..

H_D

Johann
personally, I think of purchasing products (not just salt but anything I do try to get as close to the source as possible) this way..from a company that specializes in natural salts I can get a 25 lb bag of Himalayan pink salt for $85 with free shipping this will last my family about a year..if I went into the grocery store I would have to get a smaller container of salt lets say $6 for 13 ounces which to be fair would be $184 and a lot of bottles to store to get 25 lbs of salt..the math clearly tells me that buying in bulk online is much less expensive and I am supporting a company who's values, method of sourcing and operations I can agree with rather than a grocery store (in which I support VERY few and none if I dont have to)

Laurie,
I agree with your comments on the ocean, plastics and contamination..we stopped eating anything from the ocean years ago and I do miss my shellfish! I realize we cant control ALL of the toxins we are exposed to but as much as I can control it I will.. with salt we dont use sea salt, I dont think we ever did lol..pink salt is harvested from deposits created about 4 billion years ago in the pre-cambrian age, Himalayan salt is the cleanest healthiest salt on the planet.

Happy Healing
Heather

Johann

I read somewhere salt is also usable to restore healthy hair -after washing our hair- (I recommend to NOT use commercial shampoos)

By Rubbing in the scalp. After a minute of massage you have to rise it off. In the original article (lost the link) they suggested even table salt

Blair

Heather; I read the blog on salt, nice, informative. I never realized the differences and lack of differences between all these "kinds". Thanks for posting the link.

H_D

Blair, you are very welcome..
Johann..some info on using salt for hair and scalp health
non processed salt contains sulphur and other essential minerals which is extremely helpful for treating hair fall and hair loss.
Sea salt reduces scalp acne, dandruff and unclogs hair follicles and strips product buildup.
Salt also works to balance scalp pH and balance sebum secretion.
salt is a natural scalp and hair detoxifying agent

add cinnamon to the mix if you have balding issues this will increase blood flow to the follicles and stimulate hair growth.
there are lots of herbs that promote hair growth too

happy healing
Heather

H_D

in reference to the "health" of sea salt

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-30-sea-salts-found-contaminated-by-dangerous-microplastics.html?fbclid=IwAR0kzdQzkQeKcPLY2vtK9NKiJ3Maz28JqL7NOnDNzP_nztSAJB6AgvjLVOE

now I dont trust ALL of what Natural News posts, however I did read the 2015 study.
Happy Healing
Heather