Salt Lamps For Your Home and Health

Indoor Air and the Home

Salt lamps naturally cleanse the surrounding indoor air, whether directly or indirectly. This is scientific fact based on properties inherent to this salt. It's important to breathe good air, free of pollution, germs, and the "floaties" like pollen, dander, and dust. Unfortunately, the most polluted air which we are exposed to is usually within an area within our control...indoors. Homes, offices, and businesses both large and small are often neglected in the area of indoor air and environmental quality. Homes are especially important when it comes to air quality because this is where we live and eat and sleep. With all this time we spend breathing in our homes, does it make logical sense to make sure our air, at the very least, not "un-healthy"?

Use a reasonably good air filter and change it monthly. Whenever possible, open up the windows and allow fresh circulation throughout the home. Place a properly-sized warm, glowing salt lamp in every room - this will alter the electrical balance (via negative ions) and remove moisture from the air. Moisture content is crucial for indoor air pollution and microbial life to remain alive and airborne, while at the same time vital for the effect of a salt lamp. A Himalayan salt lamp can actually make your indoor air healthful and better for you

Choosing a Salt Lamp for Your Home

Our natural salt lamps are most effective within a certain radius or area, respective to their size. For example, our mini to small sizes (4-10 lbs) make great nightlights, and would give maximum benefit on a desk, bedside table, or in a small bedroom. For larger bedrooms and living areas, a medium to large-sized (10-22 lbs) would be best; or perhaps several well-placed small ones would do the trick if weight of the lamp is an issue. Restaurants, stores, spas, salons, and offices should use several medium to large salt lamps for clean air and warm atmosphere the customers (& employees) will notice!

Depending on the size (or more imprtantly, the overall surface area), our lamps provide ionic benefits within a short radius around the salt crystal - generally, the ionic field doesn't extend throughout an entire room due to the short lifespan of negative ions (2-6 minutes). However, the effective area for our salt lamps' coverage is a 3' to 15' radius from the unit - again, based on size, the state of your indoor environment, lamp warmth and surface area. Air circulation, ambient or forced, obvioiusly provides a slightly varied range.

We recommend leaving the lamps turned on as much as possible, the light can positively affect mood and creativity while the consistent warmth of the salt crystal caused by the burning bulb improves the overall efficacy of the lamp. Unlike most, we size the bulbs according to the lamp color and thickness. Our bulbs range from 7W to 40W, depending on the size and color of the salt lamp.

The Impact of a Salt Lamp on Health

In general, negative ion generation produces air similar to the air outside after a rainstorm. If you've experienced a thunderstorm then you have noticed the tension that builds up in the air before a storm - as the positive ions in the air reach a peak. When the storm hits, electrical charges are produced in the atmosphere and rain falls. The resulting air is oxygen-rich and full of negative ions. The sensations of calm and clarity can be felt in the air after a storm.

Hundreds of articles and scientific studies have been published on the positive effects of negative ions. Below is a short list of some of the findings:

• High-density ionic treatments reduced symptoms of seasonal depression for a group in one study.
• Cigarette smoke effects are countered by negative ions, cilia within the lungs were slowed.
• Patients numbering in the hundreds received treatment and relief from asthma and hay fever problems. With only fifteen minutes exposure to negative ions, these people felt much better and didn't want to leave. Within two hours of leaving the non-ionized space, their symptoms and conditions returned.
• Plants show an increased growth rate!
• Depression, asthma, migraines, palpitations and irritability were remarkably reduced; as well as a marked increase in human alertness levels.
• Five hundred patients were treated for five years, hyperthyroid cases were cured with ionization at a rate of nearly 50%.
• Bacteria counts were lowered drastically. Streptococci, klebsiella, escherichia, staphylococci, candida, and pseudomonas counts lowered by fifty percent within six hours and within one day of negative ion exposure, the rate climbs to seventy percent.
• Aerosol-sprayed bacteria cultures in air were virtually eliminated in 60 min. with high negative ion exposure.
• Headaches in office air conditioned computer room reduced by 78%.
• Hospital usage for burn victims. Sealed room with negative ion treatment for severe burn patients reduced pain to zero without the usage of morphine or narcotics in 85% of the cases.
• 57% of post surgical cases experienced significant pain reduction upon negative ion treatment.

Negative ions are remarkable. Asthma and allergy sufferers notice almost immediately the difference in ionized air of a room with these salt lamps turned on and an outside room without one. Breathing becomes easier and airborne allergen levels are significantly reduced. According to many of our customers, migraines can be reduced and often eliminated by plentiful exposure to salt lamps and the ionized "air vitamins" it seems to create.

The psychological effects of Himalayan salt lamps are well-noted as well. Reportedly, doctors throughout Europe and Asia are recommending salt lamps as a tool in the treatment of depression, attention-deficit disorder, anxiety, and other mind maladies. Salt lamps are very popular tools for color therapy, light therapy, speleotherapy, and halotherapy; in addition to alternative, natural healing practices like reiki and other forms of light-working.

Himalayan Bath Salt: A Spa Sensation For the Home

For a spa experience without any ostentation, dissolve a pound or three of our bath salt in your bathwater and relax in soothing ionic bliss. Sea salt, these days, is devoid of any energetic content because it likely has been processed and chemically changed by the time it reaches the consumer because of the pollution which it contains. We do not add scents, colors, or anything else to our bath salt, we prefer 100% natural in form and color.

No other mineral on earth has the stored potency or content of Himalayan salt crystal. Ionicsalts' baths salts have been in solid form for over 250 million years, and therefore naturally pure and completely wholesome.

Skin is healthier, the mind and breathing are clearer, and well-being is uplifted. These are the natural properties of this salt on our health, and when added with water it becomes restored to it's original form - unleashed. This has been a long-recommended treatment for conditions such as acne, stress, insomnia, aches, arthritis, muscle spasms, skin conditions, and mental/physical fatigue. Conpletely natural and pure crystalline salt is very good for you, inside and out; the best comes from the Himalayan foothills of Pakistan.

We are not doctors, nor are we scientists per se. This is not medical advice; nor is this considered a medical device by the FDA or any other health organization (yet). This is just salt in its most natural and pure form. While there is no known adverse effect whatsoever from the presence of this salt crystal to anyone, we do recommend to anyone who may be pregant, consult your physician before using any bath salt while bathing.

Most hard medical evidence specifically related to salt lamps is circumstantial and not offically researched. Observations and testimonies from the entire world, yet the medical research community doesn't latch on to natural homeopathic forms of treatment. We have years of first-hand, compelling medical evidence documented, but it takes some true research and time (and money) for confirmation of what we already know: salt lamps can offer natural health benefits.