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How Salty is the Air in a Salt Cave?

Recipients of salt therapy treatments sometimes believe that they should be feeling or even seeing a lot of salt in the air when visiting a properly tuned Halotherapy room. However, this is often not true. There are essentially three factors that determine the effectiveness of salt treatments:

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Underground Wieliczka Salt Mine (13th century), one of the world's oldest salt mines, near Krakow, Poland.

History of Salt Therapy

Salt therapy has its origins from the salt mines and caves of Eastern Europe. Modern dry salt therapy has its origins from the salt mines and caves in Europe and Russia. As the workers were mining the salt (through chiseling, grinding and hammering at the salt), micro-sized salt particles were being disbursed into the air.

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How Salt Therapy Works

Active dry salt therapy is simple to understand. There are three primary characteristics of pure sodium chloride, NaCl, known as salt:

1. Salt is super absorbent (especially when it is completely dry)
2. Salt is anti-bacterial
3. Salt is anti-inflammatory

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Benefits of Salt Therapy

Dry Salt Therapy, also known as Halotherapy, benefits adults and children alike as well as athletes and animals. It is natural and safe and there are no harmful side effects. Halotherapy is very beneficial for overall wellness by removing the toxicity from the respiratory system

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