The good side of salt

YEAR 2011

The good side of salt

Water retention, overweight, hypertension. We’ve been trained into thinking that salt is our greatest enemy; …

Water retention, overweight, hypertension. We’ve been trained into thinking that salt is our greatest enemy; yet, its non-alimentary benefits are many and range from skin improvement to respiratory relief. Halotherapy (from the Greek term halos, meaning salt), takes advantage of these properties by recteating the microclimate of a natural salt cave; the rest is easy: just sit back, relax and breathe.

It all started in the salt mines of ancient Rome, where the miners with respiratory problems noticed the benefits that came from spending long hours in that environment. Speleotherapy is an ancient remedy, accurately tested in 1843 by a Polish doctor and throughout the twentieth century respiratory patients were often reccomended to bask inside the natural salt caves.

Lately, those same principles have been brought to the spas by recreating a very similar environment inside some hyper-modern rooms made of sea salt blocks where you can relax and breathe vaporized sodium chloride. Salt rooms promise to produce the same benefits of a three-day stay at the seaside in a single 30-minutes session.

WHERE
Stanza del sale, Italy
A certified salt room building system already in use in 15 Italian spas andwellness centers.

Wieliczka salt mine, Poland
Eastern Europe’s most famous naural salt mine, as well as one of the oldest to be still in use, hosts an impressive subterranean rehabilitation and treatment center.

Salt Cave, UK
A British halotherapy franchising firm which opened several salt rooms in London and the UK, as well as in Singapore and South Africa.

The salt room, Orlando, USA
A veritable halotherapy spa, offering salt room sessions as well as treatments, massages and Yoga lessons inside the salt rooms.

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