Announcing our new monthly prize drawing.

For February, March & April we will be conducting a prize drawing based on our customer e-mail list. If you're name is on our mailing list or you have purchased products from us you will be automatically entered into the drawing. First months drawing will be for $500 in the form of gift certificate and must be used through our website within 180 days of winning. Winner will be notified via e-mail.

Good luck and if you haven't yet signed up, click here.

Sincerely,

Lee Williamson

Hydrotherapy (Dictionary)
External use of water in the medical treatment of certain diseases.

What is Hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy is the use of water, either internally or externally, to maintain health and prevent disease. Although it was the Romans who introduced spas throughout the Roman empire, modern hydrotherapy is commonly attributed to Father Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), who believed that water would ‘dissolve, remove and strengthen’. Dissolve matter-containing disease, remove diseased matter from the body and strengthen the body by restoring cleansed blood to the tissues and maximizing circulation.

There is no drug on the market that can rival the number of beneficial physiological effects that water is capable of producing, and it is widely available (unless you happen to be in a desert) and cheap. In fact, there are no substances known to man that possess as many remedial and health-promoting qualities as water. Its therapeutic qualities include sedative, antipyretic (reducing body temperature, anodyne (analgesic,), anticonvulsant, astringent, tonic, anaesthetic, and derivative.

According to its mineral content, water taken internally can have a laxative, diuretic, phlegmatic (phlegm producing) or diaphoretic (perspiration-inducing) effects. Used externally, water has the power to improve blood and lymph circulation, relax tension in the tissues, alleviate pain and calm the nervous system.

In the past, little controlled research had been carried out into hydrotherapy; and what little there had been done, was more often than not, conducted in Germany. However, in recent years some interesting studies have been carried out into the varied forms and applications of hydrotherapy in medicine.

Some Uses for Hydrotherapy

Relaxation: The buoyancy and temperature of the water during hydrotherapy can relax your muscles and connective tissue, which is important in rehabilitation.

Pain Relief: The warm water temperature and bubbling water provide a weightless rehabilitation environment. In this instance, hydrotherapy reduces the muscle stress and strain at the point of injury and throughout your body.

Analgesic Effect: Hot water in hydrotherapy can override pain impulses producing an analgesic effect. Reliving pain. Which you need in Rehabilitation.

Improves Sleep: Hydrotherapy promotes sleep. (National Sleep Foundation)

Recovery Time: Some studies report hydrotherapy improves your rehabilitation time.

Improves Circulation: Hydrotherapy increases blood flow throughout your body, which can help relieve and heal injuries.

Relieves Muscle Spasms: The increase of blood and oxygen through your blood stream during hydrotherapy reduces and relieves muscle spasms.

Reduces Inflammation: As blood flow increases and the blood vessels contract, you’ll experience relief allowing inflammation to decrease.

Increases Range of Motion: During hydrotherapy, your muscles simply relax increasing your range of motion. This is usually done in conjunction with some rehabilitation exercises. You can increase your range of motion by about 20% in 113 degrees F water.

Tissue Healing: Studies report hydrotherapy in heated water increases your metabolism multiplying white blood cells which aid in healing tissue damage.

We have been noticing more and more listings on E-BAY recently for companies or people (it's hard to tell these days) selling Dead Sea Salt for unusually low prices. There can really only be one reason for this, and that is - Fraud.

Buyers selling for unusually low prices
Wholesale Pricing, out of Israel, when purchasing by the container load is a relatively set price so when buyers on E-Bay and on the Web post their prices for less than or close to the container price it obviously raises our suspicions. Over the period of one year, we purchase many many containers of Dead Sea Salt (43,890 lbs per each container), have special contract pricing out of Israel and know the Dead Sea Salt industry inside and out. It is very easy for us to spot a fake, even just based on pricing and data from the company that is selling the supposedly "Dead Sea Salt".

We have tested many salts and verified them to be FAKE
To validate our suspicions, over the last few months we have actually purchased from Various buyers mostly on e-bay, that were selling salts at what we know to be cost or less than costs from Israel. We have tested these salts in our lab and ALL the salts tested have been verified to be Sea Salt, but not DEAD SEA SALT. They do not have the appearance of Dead Sea Salt or the chemical structure that Dead Sea Salts are famous for. The Salts we tested were ALL atlantic or pacific salts, with one exception that was sea salt with a 5% Dead Sea Salt mix in there. None of these salts contained the high mineral content that quality dead Sea Salt has - not even close to it. Not to say that these salts are bad, just that they are not Dead Sea Salt from Israel as advertised.

We are taking action
With our data now in hand, we have started to take action against some of these companies. We feel that it is morally wrong, very deceitful, and especially unfair to the buyer to be selling fake Dead Sea Salt. It also impacts the Dead Sea Salt industry by artificially devaluing what is a premium quality product.

Help us to identify the Impostors
If you feel you have purchased imitation Dead Sea Salt, please fell free to contact us and let us know who and where you purchased from. We will add it to our list of suspicious accounts and follow up if we fell it is necessary. In the meantime, if you need pure raw premium quality Dead Sea Salt, please feel free to visit our Minera Dead Sea Salt page.

Sincerely,
Lee Williamson
Dir. Business Development
San Francisco Bath Salt Company
www.sfbsc.comwww.sfbsc.com/bulk-dead-sea-salt