Salt forces some water to keep it company outside the cells (osmotic retention of water by salt). It balances the amount of water that is held outside the cells.
Basically, there are two oceans of water in the human body : one is heal inside the cells of the body and the other ocean is held outside
the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between volume of these two oceans.
This balance is achieved by the regular intake of water, potassium-rich fruits and vegetables that also contain the vitamin needs of the body, and salt. Unrefined sea salt, which contains some of the other minerals that the body needs, is preferable. Celtic sea salt has about 92 minerals, sea salt has about 82 minerals , refined table salt has only 2 minerals.
When water is not available to get into the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage. This secondary and emergency means of supplying important cells with "injected water" is the reason, in severe dehydration, that we develop edema and retain water. The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells. the brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys. This directive of the brain is the reason we get edema when we don't drink enough water.
When water shortage in the body reaches a more critical level and 'delivery of water" by its injection into the cells becomes the main route of supply to more and more cells, an associated rise in " injection pressure" becomes necessary. The significance rise in pressure needed to inject water into the cells becomes measurable and is labeled "hypertension."
What Natural Sea Salt Provides
The minerals that are present in sea salt, when
ecologically extracted with manual dexterity and
respect for life' s laws, are the 84 elements that
are originally in the sea. None of these elements
are removed from natural Celtic sea salt. Once
redissolved in water or in the moisture of food as it cooks, this recreated "ocean" bears an amazing likeness to
human blood and body fluids. Basic physiology
validates the fact that the ideal replenishing
substance, capable of maintaining or restoring
health in humans, would have to be that very sea
salt that has retained all of the elements of
original seawater. Although the biological
necessity has not yet been proven for each of
these elements, it has been established that 24 of
these elements are essential to maintain life.
Many of these need only be present in parts per
million (ppm) concentration in order to provide
or restore essential biological functions. In fact,
these trace elements are properly absorbed and
utilized safely only when they occur in parts per
million concentration. Here, concentration of
these elements in excess of micro doses would
cause clumping and provoke mal-absorption in
the living cells.
Ocean minerals and dissolved gases, besides
providing a stable environment for marine life,
also help to maintain the chemical and physical
stability of the living organisms based on dry
land, assuring the survival of the planet's flora
and fauna.
The air above the ocean waters becomes saturate
with, distributes and constantly moves and
releases the ocean's dissolved gases to all forms
of landbased life around the globe. A large part of
these airborne gases are destroyed by city
pollution; luckily these same rare gases are
locked within salt crystals as they form at the
seashore, adding to the salt's effectiveness as
biological regulators of our body's functions.
Thus a clean and natural salt, with all these
essential minerals and gases trapped within, is
essential for effectively maintaining and restoring
human energy. Interestingly, whenever natural
Celtic sea salt is ground (not required or
suggested) while being milled, the salt releases a
subtle fragrance reminiscent of violets, another
telltale sign that gases, floral-like vital essences,
are being released.
The Attributes of True Salt
Salt is such an important part of our food that very close scrutiny, attention and sensitivity must be
given to the process used to produce it so that the
end product accurately fills our biological
requirements. Most modem consumers are
familiar only with the refined or boiled white,
vacuum-evaporated product. To determine that a
salt is a truly whole product of natural
crystallization of the ocean, these guideposts will
help. Only natural sea salt will have the following
characteristics:
1. It is light gray in color and, on standing,
the color darkens slightly at the base of the
container.
2. It is moist to the touch and retains its
moisture even when kept in cool storage for long periods.
3. It is formed of very small, precisely cubic crystals.
Each of these three signs proclaims the natural sea
salt's integrity and wholeness but also guarantees
its effectiveness as an outstanding food/condiment
/medicine combination that builds, maintains or
restores optimum health.
The Importance of the Gray Color
Some of the minerals present in true natural sea
salt are responsible for the salt's light gray
coloring and attest to its power to support all
biological functions. Natural products reveal their
richness in minerals by their color. It is true of
wholewheat flour and natural unrefined sugar. By
its total lack of color, white refined salt reveals its
mineral deficiency and biological ineffectiveness.
Salt Moisture as a Vital Sign
The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet. All of
the salt's essential trace and macro-elements stay
within the crystal only as long as the moisture of
that salt is retained. Applying any artificial heat
will destroy the riches of the ocean while
removing that moisture. If flash crystallized, kiln
dried or boiled, the salt loses all. This water-
retaining part of sea salt, centered around the
magnesium salts that are highly water retentive,
is called the mother liquor or bitterns. In the
ancient traditional sacred medicine of the Celts, it
is used to treat major physical and mental
disturbances, severe burns, and other ailments.
Today's biologists attest that the mother liquor
restores hydroelectrolytic imbalance, a disorder
that causes the loss of immune response, creates
allergies, and causes many health problems. The
therapeutic effect of mother liquor is recognized
and used by the European medical profession,
and is still in use today. Moisture assists the
transfer of the energy of the great oceans
themselves; if the oceans are the lifeblood of our
planet, then natural sea salt creates the lifeblood
of our organism.
The moisture always present in Celtic natural salt
settles at the bottom of the container or bag,
leaving the top part almost dry to the touch. Thus
it is always advisable to mix the contents of the
salt bag before its use. Natural sea salt is best
dispensed from a salt cellar or a salt box; it
readily dissolves in the moisture of the food and
is usually added near the end of the cooking. To
sprinkle dry on food from a shaker makes the salt
slightly harder to assimilate. In this latter form, it
also enters the system in a non-ionized form, thus
it can create thirst and lessen some of its advantages.
Unrefined Seasalt: Vital Nutrition
Health Freedom Resources distributes genuine
natural seasalts produced without refining, oven
drying or chemical additives. The refining of and
additives in white table salt can be harmful. In
fact all refined white salts, including those
labeled sea salts, are known to be detrimental to
health. Natural salts that come from pristine clean
salt farms very definitely make food more tasty,
and these salts make food more digestible, and
may often, even measurably, help improve health.
The daily use of these natural salts along with a
wholegrain-based diet could greatly reduce toxins
and prevent ill health. These findings,
documented and confirmed by many other
biologists, are published for the benefit of
consumers at large.
Natural salts are not readily available over the
counter (OTC) in North America today. New
labeling laws and other restrictions could prevent
the OTC sales of our natural salts. HFR, however,
will continue to offer its products direct to its
customers for their own use and evaluation: Light
Gray Celtic crystals and Flower of the Ocean ™
All of these natural products are obtained from
traditional organic salt farmers, under the highest
quality controls. The method used for gathering
them follows a time honored 2,000 year old
Celtic culture and tradition, supported and
authenticated by modern Quality and Purity
control establishments.
We continue to urge that all persons maintain
serve stock of natural salts at home for several
important reasons:
1. Natural salt is a prime condiment that
stimulates salivation, helps to balance and
replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.
2. It supplies all 92 vital trace minerals to
promote optimum biological function and cellular
maintenance and also free will.
3. The oligo-element natural iodine in these salts
protects against radiation, atomic fallout and
many other pollutants.
4. Because salt crops, at times, fail due to bad
weather and natural disasters,we advise our
readers to stock salt ahead. Properly stored, salt
keeps virtually indefinitely. Restrictive
regulations and shipper's strikes may also
arbitrarily cut off our supply.
When you are saltwise, You Help Others...
Our flyers, books and tapes on salt can help some
of your relatives, friends and representatives in
Congress relearn the value and imperative
necessity of these genuine unrefined Celtic ocean
mineral salts. Doctors prescribe saline liquid (salt
& sugar solutions) and introduce these into
patients in many emergencies. Yet only a minority
of physicians and biologists have discovered and
agree that natural whole salt is vitally important
for the control of disease as well as for optimum
nutrition. Our customers by experiencing,
sharing and talking about the benefits of salts
have measurably helped in having official
medicine and regulatory agencies recognize
Celtic salt's value. Us spare copies of
"Seasalt's Hidden Powers" or
our cassette: "Celtics Grey Seasalt, The
Nutritional Imperative" as a mentally stimulating
gift. The spreading of information through word
of mouth by our customers continues to be the
mainstay of health freedom. Your efforts are
appreciated and many thanks go out to the
doctors and health advocates who have written
about Celtic Ocean Seasalts in their newsletters.
The Value of Real Seasalt
What Is Real Seasalt
Why Is It Hard To Obtain?
How Do We Recognize The Real Thing?
Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical
and biological facts support that. Genuinely
healthful sea-salt is composed of minerals from
the ocean waters which have been transformed
by microorganisms, algae and plants into
organic nutrients; these in turn are
bio-available to animals of the sea and land.
The ocean contains the precious minerals our body
requires for optimum function. The salt refiners,
however keep these facts hidden from the public
because they profit from selling the minerals
extracted from the rich ocean brine. The same
vital minerals that, when left in at the onset, make
salt the vital necessity and its color light gray.
This is the salt of Life!
Basic Roles of Seasalt
Natural light gray salt is the most basic condiment as well as a staple food: it possesses the power to rejuvenate the body's
biosystems, therefore, a powerful remedy for countless health problems. No pill supplementation can equal the wealth of
minerals that natural seasalt supplies, regardless of how rich or precisely that supplementation is formulated.
Clean, unrefined, and handharvested natural seasalt, used in the proper manner, has reversed many a "chronic illness" and
restored wholeness in just a few days. Because of its complex beneficial minerals and bioelectronic power it offers countless
health benefits: it balances alkalinity/acidity levels, restores good digestion, and relieves allergies and skin diseases.
Natural gray sea-salt provides renewed energy, and at the same time gives higher resistance to infections and bacterial
diseases. Natural Celtic Seasalt, in either white small crystals or larger light gray crystals, is the gentlest alkaline forming
substance known. Furthermore, cereal grains, beans, roots or vegetables pickled or aged with salt (pickles, sauerkraut, or
naturally fermented, startertype bread), all become even better healing foods when prepared with unrefined natural salt. The
absence of salt in the daily diet greatly hampers absorption of the nutrition contained in grains and vegetables and leaves
them unable to function as natural healing agents. If you pickle, brew, bake or make miso, request this Society's special
bulletin on "Salt Quality and Fermentation" for $2 pp. "Natural seasalt is a living food, with its ionic and electrolytic
properties profoundly anchored in its grounding crystals.
Precious Minerals Working Together
Trace elements, found in minute quantities in sea water and therefore in natural unrefined seasalt, all work together to assure
and maintain proper function of the body's systems. If any one of them is left out or even just diminished a link will be
missing, and the whole organism will suffer as a result. Stated another way, if any of our internal oceans are shortchanged of
trace nutrients, the body will lack the triggering bioelectrical impulses and the mineral building blocks necessary to function
at full efficiency or to renew its systems properly.
But..isn't Salt Bad for You?
All the medical and scientific studies condemning table salt would appear to be justified, except for the fact that these studies
examined only refined white salt, a biologically damaging, completely unnatural and chemicalized substance. In the
industrial refining process, as many as 82 trace minerals and essential macro nutrients are forcibly removed, leaving only a
single compound made of sodium and chlorine.
In centuries past, salt, the universal necessity, was also much appreciated as an effective medicine. Used either
alone as an energizer and detoxifying agent or in conjunction with healing plants. from Mythologia Aesopi, Basel 1531
The Value of Real Seasalt
Were these 82 nutritive substances left in as they occur in clean natural seasalt, table salt would again be whole and would
fulfill its vital role, which is to enhance life and to maintain optimum health. That beneficial form would receive the full
endorsement of medical and health professionals alike. However, the industrial salt refining methods used today in the U.S. and other industrialized countries cannot make natural salt because the refiners start with a bulldozerharvested product which
contains many pollutants and must be cleansed of them. Their technology is geared to massproduce, mainly for industry, the
most refined and deadly white of chemical grade sodium chloride.
The high technology methods we have inherited from the Industrial Revolution days were never designed to produce mineral
rich, foodgrade salt. In the light of what is known today about human biology, salt refiners would be forbidden to make their
ultrarefined salt available for human food use.
A dark unrefined salt is made in the U.S.A., but it is an industrial crude product, mechanically bulldozed from stagnant
cementlined salt flats which draw their water from industrially polluted bays and industryladen coasts. Such crude salt is
totally unsuitable for food use as it is filled with dirt, oily sand, concrete efflorescence, and heavy metal pollution. Crude salt
does not qualify as a clean, natural agricultural or maricultural product; it requires refining and gets it!
The same U.S. crude salt, even though it sometimes has the connotation of being a healthproducing natural seasalt, should
never be used for food under any circum stances, as it will cause severe skeletal damage. Even if properly handpicked or
stripped of the darker crystals it still contains large amounts of toxic heavy metals, concrete efflorescence, and pollution
locked within all its crystals, and is therefore unsafe.
Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for
edible salt is too small to bother with when compared with the huge industrial consumption. The trace elements such as
magnesium, bromide and sulfur, are all extracted from seasalt by those refiners since they are a great source of profit for the
multinational big ocean chemical business.
Long ago the U.S. government directly asked the refineries to define what constitutes edible table salt. It was profitable and
convenient for these salt and chemical conglomerates to tailor the requested definition to fit their own product: Salt, they
declared, "must not contain over 2 1/2% of trace mineralsback then, all minerals were lumped together under the term
"impurities" and were extracted for their profit. Refinery salt, however, may legally receive up to 2% of chemical additives, such as bleaches, anticaking agents and conditioners.
Watch Out for These Additives:
Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tricalcium phosphate, aluminecalcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate are all anti caking agents whose role is to prevent the salt from mixing with water, in the box or within the human body. Thus preventing
the salt from doing one of its important functions on the organism.
SodiumRestricted Diets Kill!
Public health policy should be guided only by proven facts. Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few
saltrelated health problems. Sodium, in the form of sodium chloride, plays an important part in the primary processes of
digestion and absorption. Salt activates the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. At this stage, sodium exposes food to
the tastebuds a reason why food has always been salted "to taste" it also helps start digestion by breaking down food. In the
parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride generates hydrochloric acid, one of the most important of ail digestive
secretions.
If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body's enzyme pathway loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Thus
most diets, but especially vegetarian and grain diets, require slightly more salt in order to prevent an excess of potassium over
sodium. With salt present, the acidity of the partiallydigested food is able to trigger off some needed natural sodium
bicarbonate, derived from the supply of sodium chloride, as well as enzymatic and bile secretions from the gall bladder and
pancreatic ducts. Without salt no digestion is possible.
In illnesses such as diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, kidney or gastrointestinal disorders, or any time there has been
surgery or other significant fluid losses triggered, the requirement for an abundant supply of salt is vital for survival. A
certain amount of extra salt ration at that crucial time has often been the factor that has saved lives.
The Value of Real Seasalt
High Blood Pressure and Refined Salt
The research of Dr. John H. Laragh, M.D., at the Hypertension Center of the New YorkCornell Medical Center, shows that
the High Blood Pressure (HBP) problem lies not in salt intake but in an overactive hormone system. When this system is
overactive, i.e., high renin* levels, body salt content is usually excessively reduced and thus salt starvation could occur if the
patient is put on a low salt diet. On the other hand, low renin levels, which occur only in a third of hypertensive people, actually reveal a sodium excess. Only patients in the latter group should lower their sodium intake.
*renin: a proteindigesting enzyme released by the kidney, acting to raise blood pressure.
Evaluating Various Natural Salts
The percentage of magnesium salts varies greatly from one natural salt to the others. Even within the same salt farm
installation, it is possible to extract two salts of slightly different magnesium content.
Cold, active, northern seas, because of upwelling and other marine and climatic conditions, offer the advantages of a richer
mix of minerals. Geographical orientation of the coastline also plays an important part in the final quality of the naturally extracted seasalt. Winds not only dry more than sun alone, but "load" the salt flats and stacks with additional trace elements, mainly iodine salts. These additional nutrients are carried as spray from the crests of waves (by aerosolization). Finally, the
method used for gathering salt from natural flats and effectively separating it from the hard clay sole is crucial to the
production of healthgiving salt. There must be some constant eddying movement to the brine a kinetic crystallization over
and through the clay flats (if concretelined beds should be reused, as in refinerytype salt, the efflorescence of the cement
pollutes and loads the salt with toxins). In order to ionize and harmonize the trace elements by the clay's filtering action, the
final handraking of the moist crystals is done by artisans with such a skillful light touch that almost no particles of clay
appear in the finished natural product. In the case of "Flower of Ocean" salt, an almost white Celtic salt which is also
harvested traditionally and rare because it crystallizes naturally on top of the water only during the hottest days of the harvest. The gathering is done delicately from the top layer of the brine and thus NO clay is ever trapped in the final smaller crystal
structure.
Both methods just described are still followed by a dedicated group of professional natural salt farmers in Europe who
perpetuate the traditional skills passed down through generations from antiquity. When harvested in these ways, both of these
natural seasalts are highly beneficial to anyone's health as they possess therapeutic qualities that are capable of restoring
balance, even in longstanding chronic afflictions.
Is Mexico's Salt Advisable?
Much of Mexico's crude salt, after being bulldozed, is shipped in bulk mainly to Japan. There it is refined by electrolysis and
used in mise, soy sauce, and other socalled "natural" products, then shipped back to natural food stores here. A state law
forbids any Japanese firm or individual from making their own salt. The refining and sale of salt is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau. Their entire supply is imported and always highly refined. A healthy trend
has sprung from that: it consists in artificially "loading" the refined salt with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While this does not MAKE natural salt, it is a step in the right direction. There is at least one mise maker in the U.S. who uses
Celtic salt for his fermentation. His product is rated above any of the Japanese imported miso.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is bought by Californians, who boil and recrystallize it into a totally
demineralized white salt which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food channels under the name "Balanced
Minerals Salt." However, the boiling of crude salt removes all its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been
recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption. The following two analyses, performed at a Boston based laboratory, are further proof of the value of Celtic seasalt. By and large, the essential minerals in Celtic salt are 10
times that of the "Balanced Minerals Salt" of boiled Mexican salt.
TABLE 1 Comparing Celtic Natural Gray Seasalt to Boiled Mexican Salt
Mineral [French Celtic] [Mexican Boiled]
Magnesium [1.00%] [0.1%]
Manganese [.01] [.0001]
Boron [.001] [.0001]
Copper [.001] [.0001]
Silicon [.01] [.001]
Iron [.1] [.01]
Nickel [.0001] [.0001]
Moisture% By Weight [5.79] [0.31]
The Value of Real Seasalt
TABLE 2 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Mineral [French Celtic] [Mexican Boiled]
Magnesium by weight as Mg. [0.42%] [0.032%]
Magnesium by weight as MgSO4 [2.10%] [0.152%]
Table 1 uses the Emission Spectrographic Analysis of oven drying, while Table 2 uses the Atomic Absorption Method. Such
analyses seldom agree totally, even when performed by the same laboratory, however, both tables show that Celtic gray salt
contains 10 times more trace minerals than the Mexican refined and boiled variety.
The moisture assay at the end of Table 1 is also worth noting, since a dried salt does not retain any of its volatile trace
elements.
Salt Used as a Social and Political Oppression Tool
The influence of salt on population, mass migration, blind submission and as a demographic control weapon cannot be
ignored. In the past, it was done by controlling the supply; today, it is accomplished by control of its chemical makeup or of
its additives. Control the salt and you can control the mind and body of the populace. Within the internal sea of the human
body, the biological and psychological effects of salt quality are ever more farreaching...Should we not take charge of the
quality of our salt?
Georges Ohsawa's Advice:
During a lifetime of lecturing Georges Ohsawa, who introduced the practical philosophy of macrobiotics to the West, often
referred to natural Celtic Salt from the clean, virtually unpolluted coast of Brittany as the only salt that should be used for the
optimum maintenance of health. Today, some leaders and teachers in the macrobiotic movement may have forgotten this
important message. Over twenty years ago, Mr. Ohsawa asked that I thoroughly research and study the biological impact of
salt, and expressed the hope that I would then publish these findings.
Become SaltWise: Read our Books
or Listen to One of Our Cassettes
If you are new to the wellguarded mysteries of salt and nutrition and this information sheet has whetted your appetite. Acquire additional knowledge by requesting an audio cassette now for $8.00, or by ordering the book: "Seasalt's Hidden
Powers" for $8.00.
You may also secure, for $2.00, a tasting and testing sample of the "Flower of the Ocean" natural seasalt which is one of the
two salts this Society recommends. A tasting and testing sample of the "Light Gray Celtic," the other salt recommended, is
available for $1.00. These samples will enable you to compare the taste of the true natural seasalt versus refined.
In accordance with the Bill of Rights, the present webpages, the books and the cassettes are issued for information purposes
only: They are not labeling for any product and their whole content is copyrighted under international Law which prohibits
reprinting in whole or in part. Here these were used with the written permission from the Grain and Salt Society.
(1993 update. From the research of Jacques de Langre, Ph.D. Biologist The Grain and Salt Society)
The Value of Real Seasalt
Those are the Three Kinds of Celtic Ocean Crystals™:
A. Light Grey Celtic™ In France and many other countries outside the U.S.A., Light Grey is treasured as the finest of all
condiments. Free of any processing, it is dried only by the hot Summer's sun and wind. It is harvested by expert saltmakers
who delicately gather the salt with wooden hand tools from the eddying salt flats within the marsh. The characteristic light
grey color comes from the pure clay sole of the manicured basins. That clay ionizes the many mineral salts, making them
even richer in electrolytes. The crystals are very carefully sifted to remove the darker crystals. Because light gray is just sun
dried, it retains some of the ocean moisture; this helps lock in many vital trace elements.
B. Flower of the Ocean™ are very small white crystals that naturally form on top of the brine. These contain all the
minerals of the clear and clean Celtic ocean water. The flower forms on the surface of the water therefore it does not Pick up
any light gray color from the clay base. It forms only at the height of the season and its harvest requires great skill. Traditionally, Flower of the Ocean™ is delicately gathered by the harvester's wife. She often reserves it for her own usage
but, occasionally, we receive a limited stock for our members. Priced higher than Light Gray Celtic, it is a very unusual and
precious salt. More than a matter of color preference, the character of the Flower and it's floating, leastionized, quality makes
it the "feminine" or "calming effect" Celtic salt. This live salt is the best for sprinkling.
C. Natural Bath & Animal Salt Some of our customers have asked for a less expensive salt for their horses, pets, gardens
and for the bath. This salt comes from the same salt flats but is B graded and has not been certified as a food salt. Not
recommended for human consumption.
A Welldeserved and Valuable Recognition...
The most reputable organiccertification group in Europe: "Nature et Progres, " has given its highest certificateof
quality and merit to these Celtic Ocean products: Light Gray Celtic™ and Flower of the Ocean™ salt crystals.
The Red Label is another merit that has been awarded the Celtic Salts. In 1991, the French Ministry of Forest and
Agriculture gave its most honorable "Superior Quality Food" mention to our Celtic Ocean products. At that time the
French government also set aside and classified, as "National Treasure " and "Protected Site" the thousands of acres
of pristine wild marsh areas that have produced Celtic salt for centuries.
The four recognitions above guarantee that we distribute to you only the highest quality food and table salts, but it
will also ease the acceptability of our salt products to any labeling laws and other bureaucratic restrictions. Why Stock Up on Good Salt?
http://www.electrical-sensitivity.info/Celtic%20Sea%20Salt.pdf
HOW TO STORE THE CELTIC SEASALT™
The bulk of Celtic Seasalts can be stored in a sealed noncorroding container, in a cool place. It is especially important for the
Flower of the Ocean to be kept cool when sealed.
In the Kitchen or at the Dining Table, it is best stored in a wooden Salt Cellar (a lidded wood box). Next choice would be
Glass or Ceramic with a loose fitting or cork lid allowing the salt to breathe yet protecting it from dust.
The mineral content will not change if the salt dries out. Salt is hygroscopic so the moisture content will flux with the
surrounding conditions. The mineral contents start changing when heated past 240F°/115 C°.
HOW TO USE CELTIC SEASALT™
Light Gray Celtic™.
This Salt is best used in cooking because of the coarse consistency and density of the crystals. It may be used directly on your
food at the table, but it is advised to grind it with a mortar and pestle or a Salt grinder. Salt is corrosive therefore we do not
recommend a traditional pepper grinder.
Flower of the Ocean™.
This is the finest Gourmet salt available. Lighter in color, the smaller crystals dissolve quickly and can be crushed between
the fingers. It's delicate flavors make it a perfect table salt, great on salads. Also, can be used in the kitchen for your more
delicate dishes.
Celtic Sea Salt®
Celtic Sea Salt® Brand - The Original Sea Salt Brand
Healthier, and Tastes better than Table Salt!
Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt®
Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt®
$5.00/lb
Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt®
Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt®
$10.50/lb
Celtic Sea Salt® Package - Salt Your Way to Health, Ceramic Salt Mill, Light Gray Sea Salt
Celtic Sea Salt® Package
$33.00
For a variety of unprocessed Natural Celtic Sea Salts & Grinders Visit our Store
Information on Celtic Sea Salt®
Proven Facts about Salt & Good Health
Better than Table Salt
Precious Minerals in Sea Salt
Evaluating Various Natural Sea Salts
Celtic Sea Salt® vs. Mexican Salt
Why use Celtic Sea Salts?
Celtic Sea Salts are a prime condiment that stimulates salivation, helps to balance and replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.
It provides renewed energy
It gives you a high resistance to infections and bacterial diseases
It supplies vital trace minerals to promote optimum biological function and cellular maintenance.
It balances alkaline/acid levels
It restores good digestion
It can aid in relieving allergies and skin diseases
And overall greatly reduces toxins and to help prevent ill-health
Properly stored, salt keeps virtually indefinitely.
Picture of Raw Sea Salt at Crystals
This ain't your daddy's table salt.
Well, maybe it is, if your daddy is a salt farmer in France. We distribute genuine natural Celtic Sea Salts produced without refining, oven drying or chemical additives for the best possible Organic Health. The salt normally used in most homes and restaurants (refined table salt) is very different from unrefined Sea Salt. Table salts are mined from the earth with bulldozers and heavy machinery, and then iodized, bleached, and diluted with anti-caking agents. Chemicals are added to refined salt in the processing and all the beneficial minerals and trace elements that are found in natural Celtic Sea Salt® are removed. So you lose out both ways! Natural salts that come from pristine clean salt farms very definitely make food more tasty, and these salts make food more digestible, and may often, even measurably, help improve health.
Natural Celtic Sea Salts are a “moist” unrefined sea salt usually found on the coastal areas of France. Its light grey, almost light purple color comes from the clay found in the salt flats. The salt is collected by hand using traditional Celtic methods. Grey Salt has gained great fame in the mainstream culinary world in the last few years and is considered by many to be the best quality salt available. This natural products is obtained from traditional organic salt farmers, under the highest quality controls. The method used for gathering them follows a time-honored 2,000 year-old Celtic culture and tradition, supported and authenticated by modern Quality and Purity control establishments.
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Precious Minerals Working Together
Picture of Raw Sea Salts on ocean shore
Raw Sea Salts on ocean shore
Trace elements are found in minute quantities in sea water and in natural unrefined sea salt, but are often absent in food and dietary supplements. Trace elements are needed to assure and maintain proper function of the body's systems. If any one of them is left out -or even just diminished - a link will be missing, and the whole organism will suffer. That is, if any of our internal oceans are shortchanged of trace nutrients, the body will lack the triggering bio-electrical impulses and mineral building blocks necessary to operate at full efficiency or to renew its cells properly.
Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical and biological facts support that. Genuinely healthful sea salt is composed of minerals from the ocean waters which have been transformed by microorganisms, algae and plants into organic nutrients; these in turn are bioavailable to animals of the sea and land.
The ocean contains the precious minerals our body requires for optimum function. The salt refiners, however keep these facts hidden from the public because they profit from selling the minerals extracted from the rich ocean brine. The same vital minerals that, when left in at the onset, make salt the vital necessity and its color light gray.
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Evaluating Various Natural Salts
The percentage of magnesium salts varies greatly from one natural salt to the others. Even within the same salt farm installation, it is possible to extract two salts of slightly different magnesium content.
Cold, active, northern seas, because of upwelling and other marine and climatic conditions, offer the advantages of a richer mix of minerals. Geographical orientation of the coastline also plays an important part in the final quality of the naturally extracted sea salts. Winds not only dry more than sun alone, but "load" the salt flats and stacks with additional trace elements, mainly iodine salts. These additional nutrients are carried as spray from the crests of waves (by aerosolization). Finally, the method used for gathering salt from natural flats and effectively separating it from the hard clay sole is crucial to the production of health-giving salt. There must be some constant eddying movement to the brine - a kinetic crystallization - over and through the clay flats (if concrete-lined beds should be reused, as in refinery-type salt, the efflorescence of the cement pollutes and loads the salt with toxins). In order to ionize and harmonize the trace elements by the clay's filtering action, the final hand-raking of the moist crystals is done by artisans with such a skillful light touch that almost no particles of clay appear in the finished natural product. In the case of "Flower of Ocean" salt, an almost white Celtic salt which is also harvested traditionally and rare because it crystallizes naturally on top of the water only during the hottest days of the harvest. The gathering is done delicately from the top layer of the brine and thus NO clay is ever trapped in the final smaller crystal structure.
Both methods just described are still followed by a dedicated group of professional natural salt farmers in Europe who perpetuate the traditional skills passed down through generations from antiquity. When harvested in these ways, both of these natural Celtic Sea Salts are highly beneficial to anyone's health as they possess therapeutic qualities that are capable of restoring balance, even in longstanding chronic afflictions.
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Comparing Natural Celtic Sea Salt to Mexican Salt?
Natural Celtic Grey Sea Salts
Picture of bag of Celtic Sea Salts
Bulk 22 Lbs. Bag
Much of Mexico's crude salt, after being bulldozed, is shipped in bulk mainly to Japan. There it is refined by electrolysis and used in miso, soy sauce, and other so-called "natural" products, then shipped back to natural food stores here. A state law forbids any Japanese firm or individual from making their own salt. The refining and sale of salt is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau. Their entire supply is imported and always highly refined. A healthy trend has sprung from that: it consists in artificially "loading" the refined salt with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While this does not MAKE natural salt, it is a step in the right direction. There is at least one miso maker in the U.S. who uses Celtic salt for his fermentation. His product is rated above any of the Japanese imported miso.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is bought by Californians, who boil and recrystallize it into a totally demineralized white salt which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food channels under the name "Balanced Minerals Salt." However, the boiling of crude salt removes all its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption. The following two analyses, performed at a Boston-based laboratory, are further proof of the value of natural Celtic Sea Salts. By and large, the essential minerals in Celtic salt are 10 times that of the "Balanced Minerals Salt" of boiled Mexican salt.
TABLE 1 - Comparing Celtic Natural Gray Sea Salts to Boiled Mexican Salt
Mineral French Celtic Mexican Boiled
Magnesium 1.00% 0.1%
Manganese .01 .0001
Boron .001 .0001
Copper .001 .0001
Silicon .01 .001
Iron .1 .01
Nickel .0001 .0001
Moisture-% By Weight 5.79 0.31
TABLE 2 - Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Mineral French Celtic Mexican Boiled
Magnesium by weight as Mg. 0.42% 0.032%
Magnesium by weight as MgSO4 2.10% 0.152%
Table 1 uses the Emission Spectrographic Analysis of oven drying, while Table 2 uses the Atomic Absorption Method. Such analyses seldom agree totally, even when performed by the same laboratory, however, both tables show that Celtic gray sea salt contains 10 times more trace minerals than the Mexican refined and boiled variety.
The moisture assay at the end of Table 1 is also worth noting, since a dried salt does not retain any of its volatile trace elements.
Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for edible salt is too small to bother with when compared with the huge industrial consumption. The trace elements such as magnesium, bromide and sulfur, are all extracted from sea salts by those refiners since they are a great source of profit for the multinational big ocean chemical business.
Long ago the U.S. government directly asked the refineries to define what constitutes edible table salt. It was profitable and convenient for these salt and chemical conglomerates to tailor the requested definition to fit their own product: Salt, they declared, "must not contain over 2 1/2% of trace minerals--back then, all minerals were lumped together under the term "impurities" and were extracted for their profit. Refinery salt, however, may legally receive up to 2% of chemical additives, such as bleaches, anti-caking agents and conditioners.
Watch Out for These Additives:
Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tricalcium phosphate, alumine-calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate -are all anti-caking agents whose role is to prevent the salt from mixing with water, in the box or within the human body. Thus preventing the salt from doing one of its important functions on the organism and denying you sufficient organic health to ward of illnesses.
Proven Facts About Salt and Good Health
Public health policy should be guided only by proven facts. Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health problems. Sodium, in the form of sodium chloride, plays an important part in the primary processes of digestion and absorption. Salt activates the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. At this stage, sodium exposes food to the tastebuds -a reason why food has always been salted "to taste"- it also helps start digestion by breaking down food. In the parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride generates hydrochloric acid, one of the most important of ail digestive secretions.
If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body's enzyme pathway loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Thus most diets, but especially vegetarian and grain diets, require slightly more salt in order to prevent an excess of potassium over sodium. With salt present, the acidity of the partially digested food is able to trigger off some needed natural sodium bicarbonate, derived from the supply of sodium chloride, as well as enzymatic and bile secretions from the gall bladder and pancreatic ducts. Without salt no digestion is possible.
In illnesses such as diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, kidney or gastrointestinal disorders, or any time there has been surgery or other significant fluid losses triggered, the requirement for an abundant supply of salt is vital for survival. A certain amount of extra salt ration at that crucial time has often been the factor that has saved lives.
High Blood Pressure and Refined Salt
The research of Dr. John H. Laragh, M.D., at the Hypertension Center of the New York-Cornell Medical Center, shows that the High Blood Pressure (HBP) problem lies not in salt intake but in an overactive hormone system. When this system is overactive, there are high renin levels (renin is a protein-digesting enzyme that acts in raising blood pressure.), body salt content is usually excessively reduced and thus salt starvation could occur if the patient is put on a low salt diet. On the other hand with low renin levels, which occur only in a third of hypertensive people, a sodium excess occurs. Only patients in the last group should lower their sodium intake.
We continue to urge all persons to maintain a reserve stock of natural Celtic Sea Salts at home for several important reasons, because we are concerned people get the best organic foods and maintain their health. But also because salt crops, at times, do fail due from bad weather and natural disasters so we encourage you to stock sea salt in advance. Properly stored, sea salts keep virtually indefinitely. Also restrictive regulations and shipper's strikes may arbitrarily cut off our supply.
Basically, there are two oceans of water in the human body : one is heal inside the cells of the body and the other ocean is held outside
the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between volume of these two oceans.
This balance is achieved by the regular intake of water, potassium-rich fruits and vegetables that also contain the vitamin needs of the body, and salt. Unrefined sea salt, which contains some of the other minerals that the body needs, is preferable. Celtic sea salt has about 92 minerals, sea salt has about 82 minerals , refined table salt has only 2 minerals.
When water is not available to get into the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage. This secondary and emergency means of supplying important cells with "injected water" is the reason, in severe dehydration, that we develop edema and retain water. The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells. the brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys. This directive of the brain is the reason we get edema when we don't drink enough water.
When water shortage in the body reaches a more critical level and 'delivery of water" by its injection into the cells becomes the main route of supply to more and more cells, an associated rise in " injection pressure" becomes necessary. The significance rise in pressure needed to inject water into the cells becomes measurable and is labeled "hypertension."
What Natural Sea Salt Provides
The minerals that are present in sea salt, when
ecologically extracted with manual dexterity and
respect for life' s laws, are the 84 elements that
are originally in the sea. None of these elements
are removed from natural Celtic sea salt. Once
redissolved in water or in the moisture of food as it cooks, this recreated "ocean" bears an amazing likeness to
human blood and body fluids. Basic physiology
validates the fact that the ideal replenishing
substance, capable of maintaining or restoring
health in humans, would have to be that very sea
salt that has retained all of the elements of
original seawater. Although the biological
necessity has not yet been proven for each of
these elements, it has been established that 24 of
these elements are essential to maintain life.
Many of these need only be present in parts per
million (ppm) concentration in order to provide
or restore essential biological functions. In fact,
these trace elements are properly absorbed and
utilized safely only when they occur in parts per
million concentration. Here, concentration of
these elements in excess of micro doses would
cause clumping and provoke mal-absorption in
the living cells.
Ocean minerals and dissolved gases, besides
providing a stable environment for marine life,
also help to maintain the chemical and physical
stability of the living organisms based on dry
land, assuring the survival of the planet's flora
and fauna.
The air above the ocean waters becomes saturate
with, distributes and constantly moves and
releases the ocean's dissolved gases to all forms
of landbased life around the globe. A large part of
these airborne gases are destroyed by city
pollution; luckily these same rare gases are
locked within salt crystals as they form at the
seashore, adding to the salt's effectiveness as
biological regulators of our body's functions.
Thus a clean and natural salt, with all these
essential minerals and gases trapped within, is
essential for effectively maintaining and restoring
human energy. Interestingly, whenever natural
Celtic sea salt is ground (not required or
suggested) while being milled, the salt releases a
subtle fragrance reminiscent of violets, another
telltale sign that gases, floral-like vital essences,
are being released.
The Attributes of True Salt
Salt is such an important part of our food that very close scrutiny, attention and sensitivity must be
given to the process used to produce it so that the
end product accurately fills our biological
requirements. Most modem consumers are
familiar only with the refined or boiled white,
vacuum-evaporated product. To determine that a
salt is a truly whole product of natural
crystallization of the ocean, these guideposts will
help. Only natural sea salt will have the following
characteristics:
1. It is light gray in color and, on standing,
the color darkens slightly at the base of the
container.
2. It is moist to the touch and retains its
moisture even when kept in cool storage for long periods.
3. It is formed of very small, precisely cubic crystals.
Each of these three signs proclaims the natural sea
salt's integrity and wholeness but also guarantees
its effectiveness as an outstanding food/condiment
/medicine combination that builds, maintains or
restores optimum health.
The Importance of the Gray Color
Some of the minerals present in true natural sea
salt are responsible for the salt's light gray
coloring and attest to its power to support all
biological functions. Natural products reveal their
richness in minerals by their color. It is true of
wholewheat flour and natural unrefined sugar. By
its total lack of color, white refined salt reveals its
mineral deficiency and biological ineffectiveness.
Salt Moisture as a Vital Sign
The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet. All of
the salt's essential trace and macro-elements stay
within the crystal only as long as the moisture of
that salt is retained. Applying any artificial heat
will destroy the riches of the ocean while
removing that moisture. If flash crystallized, kiln
dried or boiled, the salt loses all. This water-
retaining part of sea salt, centered around the
magnesium salts that are highly water retentive,
is called the mother liquor or bitterns. In the
ancient traditional sacred medicine of the Celts, it
is used to treat major physical and mental
disturbances, severe burns, and other ailments.
Today's biologists attest that the mother liquor
restores hydroelectrolytic imbalance, a disorder
that causes the loss of immune response, creates
allergies, and causes many health problems. The
therapeutic effect of mother liquor is recognized
and used by the European medical profession,
and is still in use today. Moisture assists the
transfer of the energy of the great oceans
themselves; if the oceans are the lifeblood of our
planet, then natural sea salt creates the lifeblood
of our organism.
The moisture always present in Celtic natural salt
settles at the bottom of the container or bag,
leaving the top part almost dry to the touch. Thus
it is always advisable to mix the contents of the
salt bag before its use. Natural sea salt is best
dispensed from a salt cellar or a salt box; it
readily dissolves in the moisture of the food and
is usually added near the end of the cooking. To
sprinkle dry on food from a shaker makes the salt
slightly harder to assimilate. In this latter form, it
also enters the system in a non-ionized form, thus
it can create thirst and lessen some of its advantages.
Unrefined Seasalt: Vital Nutrition
Health Freedom Resources distributes genuine
natural seasalts produced without refining, oven
drying or chemical additives. The refining of and
additives in white table salt can be harmful. In
fact all refined white salts, including those
labeled sea salts, are known to be detrimental to
health. Natural salts that come from pristine clean
salt farms very definitely make food more tasty,
and these salts make food more digestible, and
may often, even measurably, help improve health.
The daily use of these natural salts along with a
wholegrain-based diet could greatly reduce toxins
and prevent ill health. These findings,
documented and confirmed by many other
biologists, are published for the benefit of
consumers at large.
Natural salts are not readily available over the
counter (OTC) in North America today. New
labeling laws and other restrictions could prevent
the OTC sales of our natural salts. HFR, however,
will continue to offer its products direct to its
customers for their own use and evaluation: Light
Gray Celtic crystals and Flower of the Ocean ™
All of these natural products are obtained from
traditional organic salt farmers, under the highest
quality controls. The method used for gathering
them follows a time honored 2,000 year old
Celtic culture and tradition, supported and
authenticated by modern Quality and Purity
control establishments.
We continue to urge that all persons maintain
serve stock of natural salts at home for several
important reasons:
1. Natural salt is a prime condiment that
stimulates salivation, helps to balance and
replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.
2. It supplies all 92 vital trace minerals to
promote optimum biological function and cellular
maintenance and also free will.
3. The oligo-element natural iodine in these salts
protects against radiation, atomic fallout and
many other pollutants.
4. Because salt crops, at times, fail due to bad
weather and natural disasters,we advise our
readers to stock salt ahead. Properly stored, salt
keeps virtually indefinitely. Restrictive
regulations and shipper's strikes may also
arbitrarily cut off our supply.
When you are saltwise, You Help Others...
Our flyers, books and tapes on salt can help some
of your relatives, friends and representatives in
Congress relearn the value and imperative
necessity of these genuine unrefined Celtic ocean
mineral salts. Doctors prescribe saline liquid (salt
& sugar solutions) and introduce these into
patients in many emergencies. Yet only a minority
of physicians and biologists have discovered and
agree that natural whole salt is vitally important
for the control of disease as well as for optimum
nutrition. Our customers by experiencing,
sharing and talking about the benefits of salts
have measurably helped in having official
medicine and regulatory agencies recognize
Celtic salt's value. Us spare copies of
"Seasalt's Hidden Powers" or
our cassette: "Celtics Grey Seasalt, The
Nutritional Imperative" as a mentally stimulating
gift. The spreading of information through word
of mouth by our customers continues to be the
mainstay of health freedom. Your efforts are
appreciated and many thanks go out to the
doctors and health advocates who have written
about Celtic Ocean Seasalts in their newsletters.
The Value of Real Seasalt
What Is Real Seasalt
Why Is It Hard To Obtain?
How Do We Recognize The Real Thing?
Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical
and biological facts support that. Genuinely
healthful sea-salt is composed of minerals from
the ocean waters which have been transformed
by microorganisms, algae and plants into
organic nutrients; these in turn are
bio-available to animals of the sea and land.
The ocean contains the precious minerals our body
requires for optimum function. The salt refiners,
however keep these facts hidden from the public
because they profit from selling the minerals
extracted from the rich ocean brine. The same
vital minerals that, when left in at the onset, make
salt the vital necessity and its color light gray.
This is the salt of Life!
Basic Roles of Seasalt
Natural light gray salt is the most basic condiment as well as a staple food: it possesses the power to rejuvenate the body's
biosystems, therefore, a powerful remedy for countless health problems. No pill supplementation can equal the wealth of
minerals that natural seasalt supplies, regardless of how rich or precisely that supplementation is formulated.
Clean, unrefined, and handharvested natural seasalt, used in the proper manner, has reversed many a "chronic illness" and
restored wholeness in just a few days. Because of its complex beneficial minerals and bioelectronic power it offers countless
health benefits: it balances alkalinity/acidity levels, restores good digestion, and relieves allergies and skin diseases.
Natural gray sea-salt provides renewed energy, and at the same time gives higher resistance to infections and bacterial
diseases. Natural Celtic Seasalt, in either white small crystals or larger light gray crystals, is the gentlest alkaline forming
substance known. Furthermore, cereal grains, beans, roots or vegetables pickled or aged with salt (pickles, sauerkraut, or
naturally fermented, startertype bread), all become even better healing foods when prepared with unrefined natural salt. The
absence of salt in the daily diet greatly hampers absorption of the nutrition contained in grains and vegetables and leaves
them unable to function as natural healing agents. If you pickle, brew, bake or make miso, request this Society's special
bulletin on "Salt Quality and Fermentation" for $2 pp. "Natural seasalt is a living food, with its ionic and electrolytic
properties profoundly anchored in its grounding crystals.
Precious Minerals Working Together
Trace elements, found in minute quantities in sea water and therefore in natural unrefined seasalt, all work together to assure
and maintain proper function of the body's systems. If any one of them is left out or even just diminished a link will be
missing, and the whole organism will suffer as a result. Stated another way, if any of our internal oceans are shortchanged of
trace nutrients, the body will lack the triggering bioelectrical impulses and the mineral building blocks necessary to function
at full efficiency or to renew its systems properly.
But..isn't Salt Bad for You?
All the medical and scientific studies condemning table salt would appear to be justified, except for the fact that these studies
examined only refined white salt, a biologically damaging, completely unnatural and chemicalized substance. In the
industrial refining process, as many as 82 trace minerals and essential macro nutrients are forcibly removed, leaving only a
single compound made of sodium and chlorine.
In centuries past, salt, the universal necessity, was also much appreciated as an effective medicine. Used either
alone as an energizer and detoxifying agent or in conjunction with healing plants. from Mythologia Aesopi, Basel 1531
The Value of Real Seasalt
Were these 82 nutritive substances left in as they occur in clean natural seasalt, table salt would again be whole and would
fulfill its vital role, which is to enhance life and to maintain optimum health. That beneficial form would receive the full
endorsement of medical and health professionals alike. However, the industrial salt refining methods used today in the U.S. and other industrialized countries cannot make natural salt because the refiners start with a bulldozerharvested product which
contains many pollutants and must be cleansed of them. Their technology is geared to massproduce, mainly for industry, the
most refined and deadly white of chemical grade sodium chloride.
The high technology methods we have inherited from the Industrial Revolution days were never designed to produce mineral
rich, foodgrade salt. In the light of what is known today about human biology, salt refiners would be forbidden to make their
ultrarefined salt available for human food use.
A dark unrefined salt is made in the U.S.A., but it is an industrial crude product, mechanically bulldozed from stagnant
cementlined salt flats which draw their water from industrially polluted bays and industryladen coasts. Such crude salt is
totally unsuitable for food use as it is filled with dirt, oily sand, concrete efflorescence, and heavy metal pollution. Crude salt
does not qualify as a clean, natural agricultural or maricultural product; it requires refining and gets it!
The same U.S. crude salt, even though it sometimes has the connotation of being a healthproducing natural seasalt, should
never be used for food under any circum stances, as it will cause severe skeletal damage. Even if properly handpicked or
stripped of the darker crystals it still contains large amounts of toxic heavy metals, concrete efflorescence, and pollution
locked within all its crystals, and is therefore unsafe.
Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for
edible salt is too small to bother with when compared with the huge industrial consumption. The trace elements such as
magnesium, bromide and sulfur, are all extracted from seasalt by those refiners since they are a great source of profit for the
multinational big ocean chemical business.
Long ago the U.S. government directly asked the refineries to define what constitutes edible table salt. It was profitable and
convenient for these salt and chemical conglomerates to tailor the requested definition to fit their own product: Salt, they
declared, "must not contain over 2 1/2% of trace mineralsback then, all minerals were lumped together under the term
"impurities" and were extracted for their profit. Refinery salt, however, may legally receive up to 2% of chemical additives, such as bleaches, anticaking agents and conditioners.
Watch Out for These Additives:
Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tricalcium phosphate, aluminecalcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate are all anti caking agents whose role is to prevent the salt from mixing with water, in the box or within the human body. Thus preventing
the salt from doing one of its important functions on the organism.
SodiumRestricted Diets Kill!
Public health policy should be guided only by proven facts. Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few
saltrelated health problems. Sodium, in the form of sodium chloride, plays an important part in the primary processes of
digestion and absorption. Salt activates the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. At this stage, sodium exposes food to
the tastebuds a reason why food has always been salted "to taste" it also helps start digestion by breaking down food. In the
parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride generates hydrochloric acid, one of the most important of ail digestive
secretions.
If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body's enzyme pathway loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Thus
most diets, but especially vegetarian and grain diets, require slightly more salt in order to prevent an excess of potassium over
sodium. With salt present, the acidity of the partiallydigested food is able to trigger off some needed natural sodium
bicarbonate, derived from the supply of sodium chloride, as well as enzymatic and bile secretions from the gall bladder and
pancreatic ducts. Without salt no digestion is possible.
In illnesses such as diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, kidney or gastrointestinal disorders, or any time there has been
surgery or other significant fluid losses triggered, the requirement for an abundant supply of salt is vital for survival. A
certain amount of extra salt ration at that crucial time has often been the factor that has saved lives.
The Value of Real Seasalt
High Blood Pressure and Refined Salt
The research of Dr. John H. Laragh, M.D., at the Hypertension Center of the New YorkCornell Medical Center, shows that
the High Blood Pressure (HBP) problem lies not in salt intake but in an overactive hormone system. When this system is
overactive, i.e., high renin* levels, body salt content is usually excessively reduced and thus salt starvation could occur if the
patient is put on a low salt diet. On the other hand, low renin levels, which occur only in a third of hypertensive people, actually reveal a sodium excess. Only patients in the latter group should lower their sodium intake.
*renin: a proteindigesting enzyme released by the kidney, acting to raise blood pressure.
Evaluating Various Natural Salts
The percentage of magnesium salts varies greatly from one natural salt to the others. Even within the same salt farm
installation, it is possible to extract two salts of slightly different magnesium content.
Cold, active, northern seas, because of upwelling and other marine and climatic conditions, offer the advantages of a richer
mix of minerals. Geographical orientation of the coastline also plays an important part in the final quality of the naturally extracted seasalt. Winds not only dry more than sun alone, but "load" the salt flats and stacks with additional trace elements, mainly iodine salts. These additional nutrients are carried as spray from the crests of waves (by aerosolization). Finally, the
method used for gathering salt from natural flats and effectively separating it from the hard clay sole is crucial to the
production of healthgiving salt. There must be some constant eddying movement to the brine a kinetic crystallization over
and through the clay flats (if concretelined beds should be reused, as in refinerytype salt, the efflorescence of the cement
pollutes and loads the salt with toxins). In order to ionize and harmonize the trace elements by the clay's filtering action, the
final handraking of the moist crystals is done by artisans with such a skillful light touch that almost no particles of clay
appear in the finished natural product. In the case of "Flower of Ocean" salt, an almost white Celtic salt which is also
harvested traditionally and rare because it crystallizes naturally on top of the water only during the hottest days of the harvest. The gathering is done delicately from the top layer of the brine and thus NO clay is ever trapped in the final smaller crystal
structure.
Both methods just described are still followed by a dedicated group of professional natural salt farmers in Europe who
perpetuate the traditional skills passed down through generations from antiquity. When harvested in these ways, both of these
natural seasalts are highly beneficial to anyone's health as they possess therapeutic qualities that are capable of restoring
balance, even in longstanding chronic afflictions.
Is Mexico's Salt Advisable?
Much of Mexico's crude salt, after being bulldozed, is shipped in bulk mainly to Japan. There it is refined by electrolysis and
used in mise, soy sauce, and other socalled "natural" products, then shipped back to natural food stores here. A state law
forbids any Japanese firm or individual from making their own salt. The refining and sale of salt is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau. Their entire supply is imported and always highly refined. A healthy trend
has sprung from that: it consists in artificially "loading" the refined salt with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While this does not MAKE natural salt, it is a step in the right direction. There is at least one mise maker in the U.S. who uses
Celtic salt for his fermentation. His product is rated above any of the Japanese imported miso.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is bought by Californians, who boil and recrystallize it into a totally
demineralized white salt which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food channels under the name "Balanced
Minerals Salt." However, the boiling of crude salt removes all its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been
recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption. The following two analyses, performed at a Boston based laboratory, are further proof of the value of Celtic seasalt. By and large, the essential minerals in Celtic salt are 10
times that of the "Balanced Minerals Salt" of boiled Mexican salt.
TABLE 1 Comparing Celtic Natural Gray Seasalt to Boiled Mexican Salt
Mineral [French Celtic] [Mexican Boiled]
Magnesium [1.00%] [0.1%]
Manganese [.01] [.0001]
Boron [.001] [.0001]
Copper [.001] [.0001]
Silicon [.01] [.001]
Iron [.1] [.01]
Nickel [.0001] [.0001]
Moisture% By Weight [5.79] [0.31]
The Value of Real Seasalt
TABLE 2 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Mineral [French Celtic] [Mexican Boiled]
Magnesium by weight as Mg. [0.42%] [0.032%]
Magnesium by weight as MgSO4 [2.10%] [0.152%]
Table 1 uses the Emission Spectrographic Analysis of oven drying, while Table 2 uses the Atomic Absorption Method. Such
analyses seldom agree totally, even when performed by the same laboratory, however, both tables show that Celtic gray salt
contains 10 times more trace minerals than the Mexican refined and boiled variety.
The moisture assay at the end of Table 1 is also worth noting, since a dried salt does not retain any of its volatile trace
elements.
Salt Used as a Social and Political Oppression Tool
The influence of salt on population, mass migration, blind submission and as a demographic control weapon cannot be
ignored. In the past, it was done by controlling the supply; today, it is accomplished by control of its chemical makeup or of
its additives. Control the salt and you can control the mind and body of the populace. Within the internal sea of the human
body, the biological and psychological effects of salt quality are ever more farreaching...Should we not take charge of the
quality of our salt?
Georges Ohsawa's Advice:
During a lifetime of lecturing Georges Ohsawa, who introduced the practical philosophy of macrobiotics to the West, often
referred to natural Celtic Salt from the clean, virtually unpolluted coast of Brittany as the only salt that should be used for the
optimum maintenance of health. Today, some leaders and teachers in the macrobiotic movement may have forgotten this
important message. Over twenty years ago, Mr. Ohsawa asked that I thoroughly research and study the biological impact of
salt, and expressed the hope that I would then publish these findings.
Become SaltWise: Read our Books
or Listen to One of Our Cassettes
If you are new to the wellguarded mysteries of salt and nutrition and this information sheet has whetted your appetite. Acquire additional knowledge by requesting an audio cassette now for $8.00, or by ordering the book: "Seasalt's Hidden
Powers" for $8.00.
You may also secure, for $2.00, a tasting and testing sample of the "Flower of the Ocean" natural seasalt which is one of the
two salts this Society recommends. A tasting and testing sample of the "Light Gray Celtic," the other salt recommended, is
available for $1.00. These samples will enable you to compare the taste of the true natural seasalt versus refined.
In accordance with the Bill of Rights, the present webpages, the books and the cassettes are issued for information purposes
only: They are not labeling for any product and their whole content is copyrighted under international Law which prohibits
reprinting in whole or in part. Here these were used with the written permission from the Grain and Salt Society.
(1993 update. From the research of Jacques de Langre, Ph.D. Biologist The Grain and Salt Society)
The Value of Real Seasalt
Those are the Three Kinds of Celtic Ocean Crystals™:
A. Light Grey Celtic™ In France and many other countries outside the U.S.A., Light Grey is treasured as the finest of all
condiments. Free of any processing, it is dried only by the hot Summer's sun and wind. It is harvested by expert saltmakers
who delicately gather the salt with wooden hand tools from the eddying salt flats within the marsh. The characteristic light
grey color comes from the pure clay sole of the manicured basins. That clay ionizes the many mineral salts, making them
even richer in electrolytes. The crystals are very carefully sifted to remove the darker crystals. Because light gray is just sun
dried, it retains some of the ocean moisture; this helps lock in many vital trace elements.
B. Flower of the Ocean™ are very small white crystals that naturally form on top of the brine. These contain all the
minerals of the clear and clean Celtic ocean water. The flower forms on the surface of the water therefore it does not Pick up
any light gray color from the clay base. It forms only at the height of the season and its harvest requires great skill. Traditionally, Flower of the Ocean™ is delicately gathered by the harvester's wife. She often reserves it for her own usage
but, occasionally, we receive a limited stock for our members. Priced higher than Light Gray Celtic, it is a very unusual and
precious salt. More than a matter of color preference, the character of the Flower and it's floating, leastionized, quality makes
it the "feminine" or "calming effect" Celtic salt. This live salt is the best for sprinkling.
C. Natural Bath & Animal Salt Some of our customers have asked for a less expensive salt for their horses, pets, gardens
and for the bath. This salt comes from the same salt flats but is B graded and has not been certified as a food salt. Not
recommended for human consumption.
A Welldeserved and Valuable Recognition...
The most reputable organiccertification group in Europe: "Nature et Progres, " has given its highest certificateof
quality and merit to these Celtic Ocean products: Light Gray Celtic™ and Flower of the Ocean™ salt crystals.
The Red Label is another merit that has been awarded the Celtic Salts. In 1991, the French Ministry of Forest and
Agriculture gave its most honorable "Superior Quality Food" mention to our Celtic Ocean products. At that time the
French government also set aside and classified, as "National Treasure " and "Protected Site" the thousands of acres
of pristine wild marsh areas that have produced Celtic salt for centuries.
The four recognitions above guarantee that we distribute to you only the highest quality food and table salts, but it
will also ease the acceptability of our salt products to any labeling laws and other bureaucratic restrictions. Why Stock Up on Good Salt?
http://www.electrical-sensitivity.info/Celtic%20Sea%20Salt.pdf
HOW TO STORE THE CELTIC SEASALT™
The bulk of Celtic Seasalts can be stored in a sealed noncorroding container, in a cool place. It is especially important for the
Flower of the Ocean to be kept cool when sealed.
In the Kitchen or at the Dining Table, it is best stored in a wooden Salt Cellar (a lidded wood box). Next choice would be
Glass or Ceramic with a loose fitting or cork lid allowing the salt to breathe yet protecting it from dust.
The mineral content will not change if the salt dries out. Salt is hygroscopic so the moisture content will flux with the
surrounding conditions. The mineral contents start changing when heated past 240F°/115 C°.
HOW TO USE CELTIC SEASALT™
Light Gray Celtic™.
This Salt is best used in cooking because of the coarse consistency and density of the crystals. It may be used directly on your
food at the table, but it is advised to grind it with a mortar and pestle or a Salt grinder. Salt is corrosive therefore we do not
recommend a traditional pepper grinder.
Flower of the Ocean™.
This is the finest Gourmet salt available. Lighter in color, the smaller crystals dissolve quickly and can be crushed between
the fingers. It's delicate flavors make it a perfect table salt, great on salads. Also, can be used in the kitchen for your more
delicate dishes.
Celtic Sea Salt®
Celtic Sea Salt® Brand - The Original Sea Salt Brand
Healthier, and Tastes better than Table Salt!
Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt®
Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt®
$5.00/lb
Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt®
Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt®
$10.50/lb
Celtic Sea Salt® Package - Salt Your Way to Health, Ceramic Salt Mill, Light Gray Sea Salt
Celtic Sea Salt® Package
$33.00
For a variety of unprocessed Natural Celtic Sea Salts & Grinders Visit our Store
Information on Celtic Sea Salt®
Proven Facts about Salt & Good Health
Better than Table Salt
Precious Minerals in Sea Salt
Evaluating Various Natural Sea Salts
Celtic Sea Salt® vs. Mexican Salt
Why use Celtic Sea Salts?
Celtic Sea Salts are a prime condiment that stimulates salivation, helps to balance and replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.
It provides renewed energy
It gives you a high resistance to infections and bacterial diseases
It supplies vital trace minerals to promote optimum biological function and cellular maintenance.
It balances alkaline/acid levels
It restores good digestion
It can aid in relieving allergies and skin diseases
And overall greatly reduces toxins and to help prevent ill-health
Properly stored, salt keeps virtually indefinitely.
Picture of Raw Sea Salt at Crystals
This ain't your daddy's table salt.
Well, maybe it is, if your daddy is a salt farmer in France. We distribute genuine natural Celtic Sea Salts produced without refining, oven drying or chemical additives for the best possible Organic Health. The salt normally used in most homes and restaurants (refined table salt) is very different from unrefined Sea Salt. Table salts are mined from the earth with bulldozers and heavy machinery, and then iodized, bleached, and diluted with anti-caking agents. Chemicals are added to refined salt in the processing and all the beneficial minerals and trace elements that are found in natural Celtic Sea Salt® are removed. So you lose out both ways! Natural salts that come from pristine clean salt farms very definitely make food more tasty, and these salts make food more digestible, and may often, even measurably, help improve health.
Natural Celtic Sea Salts are a “moist” unrefined sea salt usually found on the coastal areas of France. Its light grey, almost light purple color comes from the clay found in the salt flats. The salt is collected by hand using traditional Celtic methods. Grey Salt has gained great fame in the mainstream culinary world in the last few years and is considered by many to be the best quality salt available. This natural products is obtained from traditional organic salt farmers, under the highest quality controls. The method used for gathering them follows a time-honored 2,000 year-old Celtic culture and tradition, supported and authenticated by modern Quality and Purity control establishments.
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Precious Minerals Working Together
Picture of Raw Sea Salts on ocean shore
Raw Sea Salts on ocean shore
Trace elements are found in minute quantities in sea water and in natural unrefined sea salt, but are often absent in food and dietary supplements. Trace elements are needed to assure and maintain proper function of the body's systems. If any one of them is left out -or even just diminished - a link will be missing, and the whole organism will suffer. That is, if any of our internal oceans are shortchanged of trace nutrients, the body will lack the triggering bio-electrical impulses and mineral building blocks necessary to operate at full efficiency or to renew its cells properly.
Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical and biological facts support that. Genuinely healthful sea salt is composed of minerals from the ocean waters which have been transformed by microorganisms, algae and plants into organic nutrients; these in turn are bioavailable to animals of the sea and land.
The ocean contains the precious minerals our body requires for optimum function. The salt refiners, however keep these facts hidden from the public because they profit from selling the minerals extracted from the rich ocean brine. The same vital minerals that, when left in at the onset, make salt the vital necessity and its color light gray.
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Evaluating Various Natural Salts
The percentage of magnesium salts varies greatly from one natural salt to the others. Even within the same salt farm installation, it is possible to extract two salts of slightly different magnesium content.
Cold, active, northern seas, because of upwelling and other marine and climatic conditions, offer the advantages of a richer mix of minerals. Geographical orientation of the coastline also plays an important part in the final quality of the naturally extracted sea salts. Winds not only dry more than sun alone, but "load" the salt flats and stacks with additional trace elements, mainly iodine salts. These additional nutrients are carried as spray from the crests of waves (by aerosolization). Finally, the method used for gathering salt from natural flats and effectively separating it from the hard clay sole is crucial to the production of health-giving salt. There must be some constant eddying movement to the brine - a kinetic crystallization - over and through the clay flats (if concrete-lined beds should be reused, as in refinery-type salt, the efflorescence of the cement pollutes and loads the salt with toxins). In order to ionize and harmonize the trace elements by the clay's filtering action, the final hand-raking of the moist crystals is done by artisans with such a skillful light touch that almost no particles of clay appear in the finished natural product. In the case of "Flower of Ocean" salt, an almost white Celtic salt which is also harvested traditionally and rare because it crystallizes naturally on top of the water only during the hottest days of the harvest. The gathering is done delicately from the top layer of the brine and thus NO clay is ever trapped in the final smaller crystal structure.
Both methods just described are still followed by a dedicated group of professional natural salt farmers in Europe who perpetuate the traditional skills passed down through generations from antiquity. When harvested in these ways, both of these natural Celtic Sea Salts are highly beneficial to anyone's health as they possess therapeutic qualities that are capable of restoring balance, even in longstanding chronic afflictions.
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Comparing Natural Celtic Sea Salt to Mexican Salt?
Natural Celtic Grey Sea Salts
Picture of bag of Celtic Sea Salts
Bulk 22 Lbs. Bag
Much of Mexico's crude salt, after being bulldozed, is shipped in bulk mainly to Japan. There it is refined by electrolysis and used in miso, soy sauce, and other so-called "natural" products, then shipped back to natural food stores here. A state law forbids any Japanese firm or individual from making their own salt. The refining and sale of salt is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau. Their entire supply is imported and always highly refined. A healthy trend has sprung from that: it consists in artificially "loading" the refined salt with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While this does not MAKE natural salt, it is a step in the right direction. There is at least one miso maker in the U.S. who uses Celtic salt for his fermentation. His product is rated above any of the Japanese imported miso.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is bought by Californians, who boil and recrystallize it into a totally demineralized white salt which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food channels under the name "Balanced Minerals Salt." However, the boiling of crude salt removes all its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption. The following two analyses, performed at a Boston-based laboratory, are further proof of the value of natural Celtic Sea Salts. By and large, the essential minerals in Celtic salt are 10 times that of the "Balanced Minerals Salt" of boiled Mexican salt.
TABLE 1 - Comparing Celtic Natural Gray Sea Salts to Boiled Mexican Salt
Mineral French Celtic Mexican Boiled
Magnesium 1.00% 0.1%
Manganese .01 .0001
Boron .001 .0001
Copper .001 .0001
Silicon .01 .001
Iron .1 .01
Nickel .0001 .0001
Moisture-% By Weight 5.79 0.31
TABLE 2 - Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Mineral French Celtic Mexican Boiled
Magnesium by weight as Mg. 0.42% 0.032%
Magnesium by weight as MgSO4 2.10% 0.152%
Table 1 uses the Emission Spectrographic Analysis of oven drying, while Table 2 uses the Atomic Absorption Method. Such analyses seldom agree totally, even when performed by the same laboratory, however, both tables show that Celtic gray sea salt contains 10 times more trace minerals than the Mexican refined and boiled variety.
The moisture assay at the end of Table 1 is also worth noting, since a dried salt does not retain any of its volatile trace elements.
Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for edible salt is too small to bother with when compared with the huge industrial consumption. The trace elements such as magnesium, bromide and sulfur, are all extracted from sea salts by those refiners since they are a great source of profit for the multinational big ocean chemical business.
Long ago the U.S. government directly asked the refineries to define what constitutes edible table salt. It was profitable and convenient for these salt and chemical conglomerates to tailor the requested definition to fit their own product: Salt, they declared, "must not contain over 2 1/2% of trace minerals--back then, all minerals were lumped together under the term "impurities" and were extracted for their profit. Refinery salt, however, may legally receive up to 2% of chemical additives, such as bleaches, anti-caking agents and conditioners.
Watch Out for These Additives:
Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tricalcium phosphate, alumine-calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate -are all anti-caking agents whose role is to prevent the salt from mixing with water, in the box or within the human body. Thus preventing the salt from doing one of its important functions on the organism and denying you sufficient organic health to ward of illnesses.
Proven Facts About Salt and Good Health
Public health policy should be guided only by proven facts. Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health problems. Sodium, in the form of sodium chloride, plays an important part in the primary processes of digestion and absorption. Salt activates the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. At this stage, sodium exposes food to the tastebuds -a reason why food has always been salted "to taste"- it also helps start digestion by breaking down food. In the parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride generates hydrochloric acid, one of the most important of ail digestive secretions.
If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body's enzyme pathway loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Thus most diets, but especially vegetarian and grain diets, require slightly more salt in order to prevent an excess of potassium over sodium. With salt present, the acidity of the partially digested food is able to trigger off some needed natural sodium bicarbonate, derived from the supply of sodium chloride, as well as enzymatic and bile secretions from the gall bladder and pancreatic ducts. Without salt no digestion is possible.
In illnesses such as diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, kidney or gastrointestinal disorders, or any time there has been surgery or other significant fluid losses triggered, the requirement for an abundant supply of salt is vital for survival. A certain amount of extra salt ration at that crucial time has often been the factor that has saved lives.
High Blood Pressure and Refined Salt
The research of Dr. John H. Laragh, M.D., at the Hypertension Center of the New York-Cornell Medical Center, shows that the High Blood Pressure (HBP) problem lies not in salt intake but in an overactive hormone system. When this system is overactive, there are high renin levels (renin is a protein-digesting enzyme that acts in raising blood pressure.), body salt content is usually excessively reduced and thus salt starvation could occur if the patient is put on a low salt diet. On the other hand with low renin levels, which occur only in a third of hypertensive people, a sodium excess occurs. Only patients in the last group should lower their sodium intake.
We continue to urge all persons to maintain a reserve stock of natural Celtic Sea Salts at home for several important reasons, because we are concerned people get the best organic foods and maintain their health. But also because salt crops, at times, do fail due from bad weather and natural disasters so we encourage you to stock sea salt in advance. Properly stored, sea salts keep virtually indefinitely. Also restrictive regulations and shipper's strikes may arbitrarily cut off our supply.
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