Question from Cindy
You mentioned himalayan crystal salt in your book Toxic Free. Do you know much about it? I would like to try making “sole” but am confused about what kind to buy. Are they all the same? Many different websites sell it, but some say that theirs is The Original Himalayan Crystal Salt, & of course, it’s more expensive than others. What are your thoughts on this? Thank you so much for your time.
Debra’s Answer
I could write a whole book on “The Original” Himalayan Crystal Salt. In fact, there is a half of a book about it. Water & Salt tells the difference between table salt, unrefined sea salt, and “The Original” Himalayan Crystal Salt.
First, the salt is completely in it’s natural state as a whole food. I’m not going to use the word “pure” because that would mean 100% sodium chloride, which is industrial salt. Himalayan Salt is salt in it’s natural state, which is sodium chloride plus 84 essential minerals that occur with sodium chloride in nature.
The salt comes from a primordial sea, evaporated by the sun millions of years ago. Today the salt is buried deep in the Himalayan Mountains, mined and processed gently by hand to retain the original qualities from the ancient body of water. When the salt is added to water, it releases the ancient energetic information that can benefit your body.
And the compression within the mountain range was so extreme, it created perfectly structured crystals in the salt.
Similar salt can be mined from different locations. The salt that says “The Original” Himalayan Salt is the one that meets the description above. I’ve been eating this salt almost exclusively for so many years now I don’t even remember when I started. It’s an alive whole food, straight from the Earth into the natural cotton bag. I buy the real thing.
