Uses for Salt

Salt is a dietary mineral composed which is primarily made up of sodium chloride and is essential for animal life because it helps to regulate the water content in the body. Salt is also one of the basic taste flavours and many chefs use it to create their tasty restaurant dishes.

Salt is an extremely common and cheap condiment that is found in every family's kitchen. Most people use salt only in their cooking or sprinkled over their food, however there are also a lot of other uses for salt. These uses range from removing stubborn stains and cleaning right through to personal grooming and as skin care products.

There are a number of different varieties of salt available including dead sea salts, rock salt, epson salts, magnesium salts, chlorine salt for pools and of course common table salt. Each of these salt types has its own particular characteristics and hence there are many different uses for salt. This variety, combined with its ready availability, low cost and capacity to save you money, makes salt one of the most useful and practical products around the family home.

Skin Care Treatment using Salt
An Epsom salt bath contains the naturally occurring mineral magnesium sulphate, which is an electrolyte that helps the internal workings of the body, alleviates pain and reduces skin inflammation.   ...  Read Many More Tips

Using Bath Salts
There are many different types of bath salts available today so you need to make sure that you choose the right one. Some of them contain solar or rock salt which does not have any great benefit and can actually dry your skin out because they are made up of sodium chloride.   ...  Read Many More Tips

Salt Body Scrubs
Dead sea salt contains a higher percentage of nourishing minerals such as magnesium, potassium and calcium chloride than normal sea salt does. You can take advantage of this by making you own herbal dead sea salt scrub. Just add a large handful of dry, fragrant rose petals or herbs to a mortar and grind them with a pestle. Then add 3 tablespoons of dead sea salt and grind them as well. Add 4 tablespoons of water and then ½ teaspoon of olive oil for moisturising and mix them well. Massage the mixture onto your body's skin, leave it for 10-15 minutes and then rinse it off in the shower.   ...  Read Many More Tips

Uses For Salt In The Kitchen
If food burns the bottom of your frypan or saucepan cover it with vinegar and a tablespoon of table salt, leave it overnight and then wipe the pan clean with a kitchen cloth.   ...  Read Many More Tips

Household Uses For Salt
If you want to remove stubborn stains from your bath rub them with a half a lemon dipped in table salt.   ...  Read Many More Tips

Other Personal Uses For Salt
Eating too much salt or drinking salt water is generally bad for you, however a small amount of salt each day is ok, especially if you use iodized table salt. Iodized salt actually contains iodine, which is essential for a healthy brain. So replace your normal table salt with iodized salt in all of your cooking and meals.   ...  Read Many More Tips