Salt Baths – Wellness in the Home
These days wellness - derived from the English words "wellbeing" and "fitness" - is generally taken to mean methods and treatments that increase one's physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Salt plays an important part in the process!
You don't have to visit a wellness spa, however, to give your body a treat. Salt baths in the comfort of your own bath can work real wonders: Baths in saltwater (10-15 g salt per litre of water) are relaxing and have healing properties.
Salt-water baths (15-60 g salt per litre of water) have long played a vital role in dermatological treatment: they drain the outer layer of the epidermis, increase skin temperature, and improve blood circulation. This effect can also be used to treat skin diseases such as psoriasis, a method practiced by medical spas for centuries.
Although the perfumed and coloured bath salts available commercially are nowhere near as strong
as therapeutic salt-water baths, the beneficial effect of salt baths in the home should not be
underestimated: warm salt-water - in moderation - enhances the mood and improves the
circulation at the same time. In other words: salt baths (re-)energise the body and rejuvenate the
soul!
