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Dead Sea salt is great for your skin. Find out how Dead Sea salt can make your skin smoother and healthier.
For centuries the waters of the Dead Sea have been known for their therapeutic benefits. The sea contains a high concentration of sea salts with healthy minerals like magnesium, calcium, iodine ...
While salts have been known to mitigate the effects of eczema, researchers have stressed that the Dead Sea salt in particular is effective in soothing eczema.
Salt crystals are always cube-shaped; however, impurities can cause crystals to grow into jagged chunks. The below video comes from the Dead Sea, where perfectly cubical blocks of salt can be found.
For her project titled Salt Bride, Israeli artist Sigalit Landau decided to submerge a black gown in the Dead Sea. The gown spent 2 months in the salt-rich waters in 2014, and as you can see from ...
The Dead Sea’s Tzeelim Bay seems to belong to another planet. From what looks like salt embroidery to snow-like salt strips to pillars that emerge from the hypersaline waters, Tzeelim Bay puts ...
A recent trip to Israel included a stop at the Dead Sea. Many people from around the world travel to the Dead Sea for treatment for psoriasis and other diseases. As I have often questioned flawed ...
Salt-encrusted art from the Dead Sea lands at the Israel Museum Sigalit Landau’s work over the last 20 years brings treasures, therapies and worries about the salty wonder to the museum’s ...
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau wades into the warm, briny waters of the Dead Sea to inspect her latest creations -- everyday objects coated in salt crystals that glisten in the bright morning sun. The ...
Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster,' but no one can agree how to fix it Rock patterns formed by crystalized minerals along the Dead Sea shore near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in eastern Israel on Dec. 30.