What is the Dead Sea? The Dead Sea or sometimes called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering the countries Israel and Jordan. Its surface and shores are around 1,400 feet below sea level which is the lowest elevation on the world’s surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is around 1,240 feet deep, the deepest saline lake in the world. It is also one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water, with a 33.7 percentage of salinity. Only a few lakes in the world have a higher salinity value. It is about nine times more salty than the ocean. This salinity makes for a difficult environment where animals don’t flourish. The Dead Sea is 42 miles long and 11 miles wide at its widest point. It stands in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
The Dead Sea has attracted a huge amount of visitors from around the Mediterranean basin and the world for thousands of years. In the Bible, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world’s first health resorts for Herod the Great, and it has been used to supply a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets. People travel from around the world to visit the Dead Sea to get its health and beauty benefits.
The salts in Dead Sea water are magnesium, potassium, calcium chloride and bromides. These types of salts are very beneficial. Magnesium is effective for both reducing stress and fluid retention, slowing aging of the skin and calming the nervous system. Calcium is effective at reducing water retention, increasing circulation and strengthening the body’s bones and nails. Potassium energizes the body, helps to balance skin moisture and is a crucial mineral to replenish following intense exercise. Bromides reduces muscle stiffness and s the muscles. Sodium is important for the lymphatic fluid balance this in turn is important for immune system health. So we can see that bathing in high quality sea salt could replenish the minerals which are critical to our skin metabolism, but you don’t have to travel the world to gain these benefits. Click here! To get the miraculous healing and beautifying powers of Dead Sea Mud & Salt.
