Sea salt cream (or dead sea salt cream) is a beauty product derived from, you guessed it, sea salt. With every passing day, we discover the unexpected benefits of the strangest of products. This time, it’s salt’s turn to make the transition from cuisine to the skincare industry.
At the current time, the sea salt cream market is fairly limited, save for a few specialized brands such as SEACRET, which provides a stock rich in “salty” products. But given the discovered beneficial effects sea salt can have on your skin, it wouldn’t be surprising in the least to see it evolve into a full-fledged industry. What benefits, you ask? See below, we answer.
Benefits of Sea Salt Cream
#1 Exfoliating Effects
Due to its nature and texture, sea salt makes for an excellent inclusion in exfoliating scrubs. This is why you will find it as a primary ingredient included in numerous spa treatments. One may argue that this is also a blade with two edges. Sea salt comes in many shapes and forms and blending the wrong kind of salt into your scrubbing mixture may end up doing more harm to your skin than good. Be careful that the grains aren’t rough or have sharp edges.
#2 Detoxifying Effects
Sea salt cream has the natural property of absorbing toxins from your skin. It can further enhance its effects by helping you shed off dead skin cells, which in turn boosts regeneration. A regenerated and detoxed skin is happy skin, that’s for sure.
#3 Stress Reduction Effects
The custom of using sea salt as a relaxation method can be attributed to Ancient Greeks and Romans, who used to bathe in seawater as a way of relieving stress. Nowadays, this kind of treatment is known as thalassotherapy, but you can get similar effects by massaging sea salt cream into your skin. A sea salt facial mask before bed might actually help you sleep better!
#4 Nutritional Effects
The mostly unaltered nature of sea salt helps it retain the beneficial minerals which can really help nourish your skin. Said minerals will make your skin feel and look better by also improving circulation and cleansing away any greasy taints and other oily nuisances.
How to Use Sea Salt & Where to Get Sea Salt Cream
For starters, you can simply purchase an already existing sea salt cream off the Internet. Aside from the brand mentioned in the introduction, a Korean anti-aging cream has been floating around eBay. But if you’d rather not put your faith in any cosmetics, you can DIY your way through this.
There is no way to make a proper sea salt face cream on your own, but you can prepare a body scrub which will help you exfoliate, detox, and see vivid results. See a recipe here. Alternatively, drop a sea salt bath bomb and let it soak into your skin.
Wrapping Up
We’ll be hearing more of the sea salt cream industry in the future, we’re sure of it. Until then, draw from the benefits of sea salt and get ready to brag about being here first when it undoubtedly explodes.
