Sea Salt
Do you know there is a chemical difference between your table salt (NaCl) and sea salt (KCl)? Both are chemically identified as salts and both use the anion chloride. However, table salt, mined from the earth is a compound of sodium and chloride, whereas sea salt, won from sea water, is a compound of potassium and chloride. So, what’s the advantage?
In regards to the skin and the products we combine with the salt, the primary advantage for your skin is the minerals that are left in the salt when processing sea salt, but do not exist in table salt. Unrefined sea salt contain 98.0 % and up to 2.0% other minerals: Epsom salts and other magnesium salts, calcium salts, potassium salts, manganese salts, phosphorus salts, iodine salts, over 100 minerals composed of 80 chemical elements. The composition of crystal of ocean salt is so complicated that no laboratory in the world can produce it from its basic 80 chemical elements.
Epsom salt is primarily a magnesium sulfate. Research shows that magnesium effectively transderms (can enter the body through the skin). Magnesium has been shown to reduce muscle soreness and spasms. You probably knew from your mother or grandmother that soaking in epsom salts made you feel better when your muscles were sore, but now there’s science to show how and why.
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