EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE

The recommended time to spend in the salt cave is 30-45 minutes.

Simply wear your normal workout or street clothes. Shoes can be left on and covered with booties that are provided. If skin conditions require treatment the skin must be exposed to the air. Our room is comfortably heated to enable skin exposure if needed.

Although walking in the sea air is a wonderfully healthy and uplifting experience the salt concentration is not enough to cause most of the therapeutic benefits of a salt room which have 10-15 times greater concentration levels than those found by the sea. A 45 minute session is equal to 3 days by the sea! Additionally the salt in the sea air is moist rather than dry as in the salt room. This means that the salt particles do not get as deep into the lung tissue and the moist salt air has less of an anti-inflammatory effect. The dry aerosol salt generated in the salt room goes deep into the alveoli of the lungs to clean and break up congestion which is then coughed up.

Eating too much salt is different to taking salt in through the lungs and skin. Too much dietary salt is linked to high blood pressure due to the anticaking agents (E535 and E 536) which can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. However the salt we use in our room is therapeutic grade fine ground salt which does not contain anticaking agents and it does not go to the stomach, heart or kidneys. The actual amount of salt that you take in through the lungs is very small in comparison to how much you would ingest with food. If you ate the amount of salt that you breathed in it would be such a tiny amount that it would not cause health problems. When the salt is inhaled however it kills bacteria, reduces inflammation and has a host of other benefits.

For recreational, relaxation and general wellness purposes sessions can be taken as many times as desired. Daily sessions will strengthen your immune system, increase energy levels, improve the quality of your sleep and generally give you a happy disposition. For people with cold and flu symptoms, ear infections and other temporary respiratory discomforts 1 – 8 sessions can be very effective. Please note that you should not attend the salt room if you have an increased temperature or fever. For chronic respiratory and dermatological conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, sinus, allergies, psoriasis etc we recommend 10-20 minutes daily or 2-3 times per week.

Halo (salt) Therapy is safe for babies, children and pregnant women.

The first thing people experience is a feeling of complete relaxation and relief from stress. The feeling washes over you from head to foot and bathes you in a deeply contented state of being. It's ideal to just rest with your eyes closed and listen to the relaxing music or bring a favourite book to read. The relaxation effect comes from the abundance of negative ions that attract and bind harmful positively charged radicals in your body. This neutralising effect calms the nervous system and cancels out harmful electromagnetic vibrations in the environment as well as in our body.