Natural Salt Lamps are prepared from Natural Salt Crystals. Superior quality natural salt crystal is available in the Himalayan mountain region. The world’s biggest producers of this type of Salt product are located in Pakistan. Poland and Iran are also major producers’ natural salt crystals.
Salt Lamps are made through a remarkable hand carved process. First, a huge slab of salt crystal is removed from the salt mines. Then a Salt Lamp is prepaired by chipping and carving the Salt Crystal chunks. They are then crafted into various natural and geometric shapes. The initial chipping has been done to decrease the weight and size of the raw Salt chunk. The pieces can be crafted to make almost any imaginable idea.
Finally, a hole is machine drilled partway through the Salt to allow for the insertion of either an incandescent bulb, or in the case of a Salt Tea Light, a stylish candle.
One of the two fundamental ingredients for the existence of life is Salt for it originates and sustains life, and the other being water. In mythologies of different religions we have traces of the importance of salt, as in the cultures of Roman, Egyptian and Greek salt was regarded a divine gift and was used in various rituals, the Celtic word for salt means sacred and divine in the Celtic language. This positive reception of the salt in ancient cultures has been approved by modern science that has learnt the benefits of salt on human body through performing a number of experiments and evidences and positive results established after this experimentation. But prior to taking an account of the benefits of salt on human body it is necessary to explore the difference between table and natural crystal salt also known as solay. Read More
