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Article: Salt & pamper: soothe your skin with healing salts from the Dead Sea.(Natural Beauty: DEAD SEA SALTS)(Buyers guide)
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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SPEND A LAZY AFTERNOON floating in the salty waters of the Dead Sea and you'll emerge with noticeably softer and smoother skin. R's the high mineral content--including sodium, magnesium, calcium, bromine, biumen, and potassium--that gives Dead Sea salt its healing powers. In fact, long before it was bottled commercially, the salt was sought after by beachgoers who packed it into jars to take home. It was this phenomenon that convinced Ahava, a local kibbutz, to produce it on a broader scale. Today, Ahava is one of the oldest and most famous purveyors of beauty products packed with salts from the Dead Sea.
Science is now catching up ...