Binding: Health and Beauty

Customer Rating:
Summary: Works wonders
Comment: I suffered from horrible sinus headaches for years before trying this salt with a hydro pulse nasal irrigator. This was life-saving! I have not had any issues for two years -- no antihistamines, no antibiotics; nothing.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Agree with James
Comment: -I trust James knows more about the content of salt than I do - sounds like he does.
- I totally agree on the price. Although you can get 8 oz for $2.67 on another site, they also add $5.99 per shipment, which still works out to be more expensive ($15) at 6 oz. less. The 3 - 10 oz. packs from Amazon costs $12.45 and is eligible for free shipping on orders above $20 or if you are an Amazon Prime member (and I am).
-Regarding the use of the salt, it's been good - recovered from a bad upper respiratory infection with no relapse (very unusual for me - especially now being under tremendous stress). It feels good and I look forward to it in the morning. Won't cure all your allergies, but helps to ease them. When my daughter told me about it, it kind of creeped me out. Then I saw it on Oprah, asked my doctor about it, he enthusiastically endorsed it, and I've been using it for over a month now. Good stuff.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Salt for this purpose
Comment: Just to make things clear regarding this salt, it is NOT just table salt. The FDA allows up to 2% of table salt to contain anti-caking and free flow agents such as sodium aluminosilicate and others with out mentioning it on the label. This salt is more expensive because it is 99.99% pure sodium chloride, pharmaceutical grade, the same that is used for intravenous IV drip bags and kidney dialysis procedures. It is more expensive than table salt because if its level of purity. Sea salt can work but if it high quality sea salt it should have other minerals in the salt of which many do not dissolve totally which can cause issues if it gets lodged in the mucus membranes of the sinus cavity- as an irritant. This price is also for 3 containers which is 30 ounces. Trust me, I have done the Neti Pot every morning for 10 years and there is no substitute for salt of this quality. Enjoy!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It is just salt
Comment: This product is simple table salt, it would be cheaper and you will save on shipping if you just use your regular table salt at home.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: High-priced table salt
Comment: This is salt, people. You're paying through the nose for SALT!

The package insert with my Ancient Secrets brand neti pot states that "non-iodized table salt is the best source of the salt for mixing the saline solution."

You need 1/4 teaspoon, dissolved in warm water, for each use.

For a list price of $20.85 (on sale at Amazon for $17.15 as I write this), you can buy 30 ounces (three 10-ounce containers) of this Himalayan Institute non-iodized salt. That works out to 69.5 cents per ounce (or 57 cents at the discounted price) for plain old NaCl.

I bought a 14.5-ounce countainer of high-end natural gourmet table salt -- Cerulean Seas refined sea salt, fine crystals, additive-free and iodine-free -- for $1.59 at Whole Foods Market. It's food grade and pure, and costs less than 11 cents an ounce.

This Himalayan Institute salt says it's "pharmaceutical grade." The Cerulean Seas is "food grade." The quality standards are the same, and if anything, the food grade is purer.

The question is, do you want to pay 69 cents (or 57 cents) or 11 cents?

Save your money.

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