QUESTION: What is so special about Dead Sea salt in cosmetics? Does ordinary sea salt from the kitchen not work just as effectively on the skin?
ANSWER: “Dead Sea salt has a very different composition than the salt of other seas and oceans. It contains many more types of mineral-rich salts, such as magnesium chloride and potassium chloride † It therefore looks a bit duller than crystals of pure table salt.
The body is affected in two ways by Dead Sea Salt † Firstly, the natural balance of the minerals in the skin is improved. Second, the ingress of minerals and salts has various physiological and pharmaceutical effects †
The concentration of magnesium in Dead Sea salt is fifteen times higher than in ordinary sea salt. Magnesium is known for its anti-allergic effect on the skin. From bromine (with a concentration of sometimes fifty times higher than in ordinary sea salt) it is well known that this has a soothing and calming effect on the nervous system.
Iodine (ten times higher than in ordinary sea salt) is essential for the proper functioning of the thyroid gland † Physicians studying and treating skin diseases have therefore observed significant progress in psoriasis patients after these had taken Dead Sea baths.”
Ivonne Scholte-Aalbes, product manager ZARQA
