Salt – where harm, and where advantage?

All know the settled expression that salt in food – white death. But also many women adore taking baths with salt, to do salt srubs and to use salt for byyuti-procedures. By and large, these salts – same. But why in one option salt – harm, and in another – advantage? Let's learn.

When salt – advantage

Salt is useful at external application. But in pure form salts are not used. In cosmetology and medicine only water solution of salt, and then is applied to female health sea salt – the invaluable assistant:

- Sea salt absorbs dirt, absorbs impurity and toxins from skin. That is why it was fallen in love by women and it is used for deep clarification of skin of a body. Salt from the seas and oceans has rich mineral structure, is sated with such elements as magnesium, potassium, calcium and sodium. These minerals help to restore a protective barrier of our skin that in turn, gives to an organism the chance to hold moisture and to keep the due level of hydration.

- Do you remember, how much are in drugstores of additive or medicine with magnesium? These medicines – not cheap pleasure. And are so necessary to us, the lack of magnesium is a stress, concern, tension. The bathtub with sea salt can become an excellent and available alternative to expensive additives with magnesium. Such bathing will protect you from a stress. It is proved that magnesium gets into an organism through skin therefore helps to relax.


- If you love good physical activities, then for certain know what is lactic acid. It "clogs" muscles, does them heavy, painful. If not to bring it quickly out of an organism, then restoration will take several days. For activization of metabolic processes and faster removal of lactic acid as we know from news, athletes accept meldonium. But there is simpler and budgetary option. It is the same bathtub with sea salt. And some American fitness trainers advise to make spray of water and sea salt and to splash it on parts of the body where tension is felt. Minerals will get through skin into muscles and will facilitate recovery processes.

What salts to buy?
It is quite difficult to advise something one. At different grades of salt – the structure, somewhere is more than magnesium, and somewhere – sodium. For a detox most often advise salt of the Dead Sea, in its composition from 12 to 20% of sodium, there are in it and such minerals as magnesium, calcium and potassium.


So-called "bitter salt" (from Surrey) has a little excellent molecular structure, in its structure most of all sulfate of magnesium. Epsom salt – perhaps, the leader in magnesium content therefore it is appreciated by both athletes, and cosmetologists. There is the Himalaya salt, it has attractive pink color, and as a part of many oxide of iron.

Grades and types of salt which brings benefit at external application, - much. Try, and you will find the favourite option.

When salt – harm

Probably, you thought that now morals that to eat salt harmfully will go, and it is advisable to pass with everything to a saltless diet. Really, we will speak about salt which we eat. But I want to please you: completely it is not necessary to refuse so-called "white death".

Try to pass to natural sea salt or pink Himalaya. These grades of salt it is better for health as contain the electrolytes necessary for optimum performance of cages.


Salt which is harmful it is table salt. In the course of preparation it becomes colourless, refined, exposed to heat treatment. And as a result, has no nutritional value. Table salt, besides, causes a water delay, an abdominal distension and long feeling of thirst.

The diet with too high content of salt involves increase in blood pressure that leads to problems aged, provoking such troubles as a stroke and cardiovascular diseases.

If you do not want to risk the health, then limit daily consumption of salt to six grams (it is 1 teaspoon). Such recommendations are made by physicians. Attentively read labels of products which you buy. Sometimes in the packaged products salt is present at a type of "sodium". Consider that 2.4 grams of sodium are 6 grams of salt. To limit itself in salt, do not use it as seasoning to dishes, and replace with chili pepper, garlic, ginger, etc.


What salt do you use for the beauty and what – for food?