NOTE: The pink color in Himalayan Salt comes from iron oxide, a chemical compound composed of iron and oxygen. People diagnosed with "iron overload" should not use pink salt.
Three hundred million years ago, a vast primordial ocean covered the area that would become the Himalayan mountain range. The salt of that unpolluted ocean was preserved as large crystal formations that now yield the purest salt on earth and the most beneficial salt available, containing all of the 84 elements found in your body.
This 100% pure coarse Himalayan Crystal Salt, a "Fair Trade" product, is hammer-crushed in a family-owned factory in Mirpur, Pakistan, which cares for its craftsmen, offering long-term employment, humane working conditions, good wages and benefits. There are no additives and it is 100% vegan.
Course salt mills come in two sizes: 3.5 oz grinder dispenser and 12 oz. adjustable ceramic grinder. Also available in 18 oz. bulk.
Why Is Himalayan Salt Crystal Better Than Table Salt or Sea Salt?
Common table salt is actually 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals such as moisture absorbents and iodine, then dried at over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit. The excessive heat alters the natural chemical structure of the salt. What remains after typical salt is "chemically cleaned" is sodium chloride, which is an unnatural chemical form of salt that your body recognizes as something completely foreign. This form of salt is in almost every preserved food product that you eat; therefore, when you add more salt to your already salted food, your body receives more salt than it can possibly dispose of.
Because typical table salt crystals are totally isolated from each other, in metabolizing these crystals, your body sacrifices tremendous amounts of energy with very little results. Plus, inorganic sodium chloride interferes with the body's ideal fluid balance and can overburden the elimination system. That happens because in the body's effort to isolate the excess salt, water molecules must surround the sodium chloride to break them up into sodium and chloride ions in order to neutralize them. To accomplish this, water is taken from your cells in order to neutralize the unnatural sodium chloride.
Sea salt is better than common table salt; however, it comes from a polluted ocean that has been used to dump garbage and harmful chemicals and toxins. This causes the natural elements of the salt to be disconnected from its crystalline form, and the vital minerals cannot be absorbed by the body without expending tremendous energy to utilize them. The net gain is small, and with an even greater loss of energy.
In the case of Himalayan Crystal Salt, three hundred million years ago, a vast primordial ocean covered the area that would become the Himalayan mountain range. The salt of that unpolluted ocean was preserved as large crystal formations that now yield the purest salt on earth.
Himalayan Crystal Salt is bio-energetically alive and contains the same 84 key trace minerals as our bodies, making it easily metabolized. The balanced crystalline structure reveals fine branching, no shadows or rough edges. The crystal is not isolated from the inherent mineral elements, but is connected to them in a harmonious state. This tells us that the energy content, in the form of minerals, is balanced and can be easily metabolized by the body. When taken as food, it will have a vital energetic effect on the body. The result is a net gain for the body with zero energy loss.
Himalayan Crystal Body Salt, in fine and coarse formulas, are made from crystal rock salt mined at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. The salt is pinkish in color due to the minerals it contains.