Salt Can Help Fight Skin Infections and Dryness

Some 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates used salt liberally to heal a number of conditions and diseases – milk and salt water were combined as an early morning drink to heal diseases of the spleen, steam from salt water was inhaled to cure respiratory ailments, a mixture of salt and honey was applied topically to clean ulcers, and salt water was used externally to treat skin diseases. Although we don’t hear much about spleen disease these days, and modern medicine has many treatments for respiratory ailments, skin infections are still very common, and you may want to consider adding salt to your skin care routine. What does salt do for your skin? In addition to its antibacterial and antifungal properties that fight infection very effectively, it exfoliates, stim View the rest of this article