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  Crystal Salt - Imported from Tibet
  Crystal Salt, Hand-mined salt, Good salt, Bathing Salt
Tibetan Crystal Salt, mined by hand in Pakistan
  
Tibetan Crystal Salt
(Organic)

Abundantly available from a salt mine in their community, the local folks from a remote mountainous area of Pakistan have been extracting this mineral-rich salt by hand, without the use of mechanical or explosive techniques. After being brought from beneath the mountain, the salt is hand-selected, hand-crushed and sun dried. This long-standing tradition is in perfect harmony with ours, and Nature’s own values. This is the highest quality salt available, anywhere.


Item# Item Name Our Price Qty Add
SALT-CRYSTAL-TIBETAN-2 Crystal Salt (2 oz) $2.95
SALT-CRYSTAL-TIBETAN-8 Crystal Salt (8 oz) $8.25 (Out of Stock)
SALT-CRYSTAL-TIBETAN-5LB Crystal Salt (5 lbs) $35.25 (Out of Stock)
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Features:

Specifics About Our Salt

Quality: Rich in 84 trace minerals and iron. This is the highest quality salt available. A lovely shade of pink in color.

Origin: Pakistan

Benefits: These diamond-like crystals of natural Tibetan Crystal Salt contain 84 minerals essential for life. A highly effective product for the normalizing of mineralization in the human body. This salt has been shown in a clinical study to be effective in helping to stabilize pH and Oxidative Stress numbers in the human body. Hydration indicators showed an average of 10% increase.

Taste: You'll find this to be an essential addition to many of your favorite dishes.

Uses: Add a pinch to your drinking water throughout the day. Sprinkle on your favorite meals. Give your skin a vacation by simulating jumping in the ocean and add Tibetan Crystal Salt to your bath. (Approximately 1-2 cups of salt per bath)






Important Information:
3 Types of Salt on the Market
Unrefined salt
Different natural salts have different mineralities, giving each one a unique flavor. Fleur de sel, natural sea salt harvested by hand, has a unique flavor varying from region to region.
Some advocates for sea salt assert that unrefined sea salt is healthier than refined salts. However, completely raw sea salt is bitter because of magnesium and calcium compounds, and thus is rarely eaten. The refined salt industry cites scientific studies saying that raw sea and rock salts do not contain enough iodine salts to prevent iodine deficiency diseases.
Unrefined sea salts are also commonly used as ingredients in bathing additives and cosmetic products. One example are bath salts, which uses sea salt as its main ingredient and combined with other ingredients used for its healing and therapeutic effects.

Refined Salt
Refined salt, which is most widely used presently, is mainly sodium chloride. Food grade salt accounts for only a small part of salt production in industrialised countries (3% in Europe) although worldwide, food uses account for 17.5% of salt production. The majority is sold for industrial use. Salt has great commercial value because it is a necessary ingredient in the manufacturing of many things. A few common examples include: the production of pulp and paper, setting dyes in textiles and fabrics, and the making of soaps and detergents.
The manufacture and use of salt is one of the oldest chemical industries. Salt is also obtained by evaporation of sea water, usually in shallow basins warmed by sunlight; salt so obtained was formerly called bay salt, and is now often called sea salt or solar salt. Today, most refined salt is prepared from rock salt: mineral deposits high in salt.   These rock salt deposits were formed by the evaporation of ancient salt lakes, and may be mined conventionally or through the injection of water. Injected water dissolves the salt, and the brine solution can be pumped to the surface where the salt is collected.
After the raw salt is obtained, it is refined to purify it and improve its storage and handling characteristics. Purification usually involves recrystallization. In recrystallization, a brine solution is treated with chemicals that precipitate most impurities (largely magnesium and calcium salts). Multiple stages of evaporation are then used to collect pure sodium chloride crystals, which are kiln-dried.

Since the 1950s it has been common to add a trace of sodium ferrocyanide to the brine in the United Kingdom; this acts as an anti-caking agent by promoting irregular crystals. Sodium ferrocyanide has been banned in the United States and a similar ban has been discussed in the United Kingdom, but was determined to be unnecessary. Other anti-caking agents (and potassium iodide, for iodised salt) are generally added after crystallization.  These agents are hygroscopic chemicals which absorb humidity, keeping the salt crystals from sticking together. Some anti-caking agents used are tricalcium phosphate, calcium or magnesium carbonates, fatty acid salts (acid salts), magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate, and calcium aluminosilicate. Concerns have been raised regarding the possible toxic effects of aluminium in the latter two compounds; however, both the European Union and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permit their use. The refined salt is then ready for packing and distribution.

Table salt
Table salt is refined salt, 99% sodium chloride. It usually contains substances that make it free-flowing (anti-caking agents) such as sodium silicoaluminate or magnesium carbonate. It is common practice to put a desiccant, such as a few grains of uncooked rice, in salt shakers to absorb extra moisture and help break of clumps when anti-caking agents are not enough. Table salt has a particle density of 2.165 g/cm3, and a bulk density (dry, ASTM D 632 gradation) of about 1.154 g/cm3.



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Thank you so much for introducing me to this... March 24, 2010
Reviewer: Diana Woods from Langley Park, MD United States  
Yesterday I started using the Tibetan crystal salt and oh what a lovely thing this is. I have been using only raw sea salt for the past couple of years, but this is my first time with Himalayan salt. Its quite exquisite. I can see now why people once traded in salt and why salt became a symbol of money and the origin of our word salary. I will have this beautiful pink salt as the salt offered for all the meals at our Natural Food and Health Conference starting next year.
Thank you so much for introducing me to this really fine ingredient.


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Sea... in your hands. November 5, 2009
Reviewer: Natalia Ivashuta from Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Russia  
I tried this salt. It's great!
It's very gentle (I used it for skin - like scrub)... I really recommend it!

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