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    What is it? Where do you buy it from? I've heard of it but I have no idea what it actually is.

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    sea salt is as it sounds - taken from the sea. most of the salt in the US comes from the salt flats in utah and nevada....i think Morton's headquarters is actually in salt lake city (you know, w/ the pic of the girl w/ the umbrella). sea salt is supposed to be healthier for you and is taken by evaporated seawater. you can get it at any grocery store or health food store, as well as when you get the fresh salt/pepper grinders it usually comes w/ sea salt. if you start using sea salt for everything, you should take an iodine supplement b/c sea salt is not iodized. iodine regulates the thyroid as well as prevents goiters in old age.
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    regular table salt is just sodium cloride, sometimes it has inorganic iodine (not good for you), and things to keep it from caking (also not good for you)....

    heres a good artical about salt, good vs bad, iodine, and where and how to buy:
    http://www.curezone.com/foods/saltpage.asp

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    I've seen iodized sea salt in one of the health food store in my area, but I never tried it. Anybody esle?
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    Sea salt is great for helping to remove toxins from the body when applied topically those areas. First heard about it from a Korean guy about helping get rid of acne. Really helps the skin. I also like to use it as a scrub for chest/back. Can also be added to a bath.

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    Quote Originally Posted by modlgrl8 link=board=5;threadid=11679;start=msg149460#msg149 460 date=1091665749
    Sea salt is great for helping to remove toxins from the body when applied topically those areas. First heard about it from a Korean guy about helping get rid of acne. Really helps the skin. I also like to use it as a scrub for chest/back. Can also be added to a bath.
    off topic but how does it work? what do you do? i never heard any sea salt acne cures.

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    you can use sea salt or epsom (spelling?) salts for skin; i prefer the latter. a few years ago my navel ring got infected and for months i was seeing doctors trying to save the piercing, they gave me all sorts of atibiotics that didn't work and were totally unsympathetic treating it like i mutilated myself or something. i was about to give up when i called a piercer who recommended i use a salt solution, either sea salt or epsom, and soak it twice a day. the infection completely cleared up in 'bout two weeks, with noticable difference after a couple days. i used epsom salts, but was told sea salt works, too. i'd imagine it works for acne since that's another bacterial skin infection.
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    heard this was better for you
    http://www.celtic-seasalt.com/

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    Sea salt is also found in a lot of bath and body works products. Great for exfoliation. The kind I have now (don't know the brand name, my fiance' had it sent to me in a bath and lotion basket) has a ginger scented oil floating on top that you mix with the salt. Smells great, but leaves skin very oily.

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    I bought sea salt in a regular ol' grocery store. It's genereally in a tall, canister thing- bigger than a table salt container because the granulars are quite a bit bigger.
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    Health food shops and Supermarkets here stock it. Celtic Sea Salt is hailed as being the best, but if you can't find it buy a brand that is greyish in colour because it's richer in nutrients. Sea salt has many health benefits and doesn't have the negative effects of regular table salt. (1 example - regular salt raises blood pressure, sea salt stableises or lowers it.) I use it instead of table salt and also take it on it's own since I drink lots of water and don't generally add salt to my food anyway.

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    I use sea salt as an exfoliant, It works great and a lot cheaper than any other exfoliants out there.

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    This is an issue where silly claims can be made on both sides since no one "makes salt" by taking sodium and chlorine and setting out to put them together. There is just too damn much of the natural stuff around.
    Table salt is purified "old sea" salt from oceans hundreds of thousands of years ago, whether it comes from Cleveland or Utah or Louisiana. Stuff is taken out by chemical processes to refine it. Mostly this is water, filters and heat using ionization to attract the desired stuff from the non-reactive inert or chemically-organic stuff.
    Sea salt manufactured today is ocean water with everything in the oceans today still in it. In a sense if you want to consider former-whale-urine to be beneficial, go for it. Same with every other pollutant in the sea, inluding some plants and microorganisms dissolved.
    No matter what it is 98% the same damn thing.

    If you want to ponder the history of humanity, most of human salt intake was from salts in naturally occurring vegetable or meats which had absorbed small amounts of it ocurring in the topsoil rather than from direct digging of salt or making it from oceans (almost everywhere was underwater some time in history)--they were no where near oceans. Salt made was an expensive commodity, and Salt licks (ancient salt) were not very common in nature.

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    Quote Originally Posted by montythegeek link=board=5;threadid=11679;start=msg160564#msg160 564 date=1093108411
    .....No matter what it is 98% the same damn thing.....
    and we are 98% the same as rats.......


    sorry...

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