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Salt Water Skin Care Benefits
What's the secret ingredient to French Fries SALT'. Without salt on your fries, you are practically just eating potatoes and not chips.
But salt is not just a tasty flavoring for food. Salt has many uses. The anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties makes salt a great healing agent for fighting infections on the body.
What do we do when we get a sore throat? We gargle some warm salty water! The salt in the water attaches itself to the infectious cells and draws out the moisture inside the cells, effectively dehydrating them until they are dried up and dead.
When used on the skin, salt can play an even bigger role with your beauty regime. Salt can help make your skin smooth and radiant. Lets find out how!
Taking a dip in the ocean is probably one of the best ways to get your dose of salt medicine. The ocean contains many vital elements that we need: vitamins, trace elements, mineral salts, amino acids, hormonal and bacteriostatic substances that have biological balancing effects, and living microorganisms that secrete antibiotic to help with beautify your skin.
Salt in the treatment of itchy skin, eczema and psoriasis
Salt water baths are excellent for itchy skin, improving eczema outbreaks, and treating psoriasis.
As salt open the pores and draw out toxins, they relieve the irritation and itching. When you finish your bath or shower, spend a few minutes rubbing salt into your skin. The rubbing actually helps improve circulation which is always good but the friction from the salt particles will remove dead skin which is often the source of the itchiness.
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