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(More customer reviews)The right idea but the price is prohibitive if you want to soak in conditions even remotely approximating the Dead Sea (30% salts). The active ingredient for psoriasis in Dead Sea salt is magnesium (PubMed), which is 50% of the Dead Sea salt composition. If I read Wikipedia correctly, commercial Dead Sea salt, which is derived from the mineral rich mud surrounding the Dead Sea, has only 4.5% magnesium.
You can buy a 50 lb bag of magnesium chloride, which commercially is a milder form of rock salt for de-icing, at Amazon for $80 with shipping. During the winter months, you can get magnesium chloride from a hardware store for $25 for a 50lb bag. I bath in 6-7 pounds of magnesium chloride at a time, as often as I can. With the addition of Oxipor coal tar lotion, you have an important first step in getting aggressive psoriasis under control without resorting to steroids and the rest, which I've never found to work.
By my calculations, the product advertised here delivers magnesium for $57.78 a pound if the salt comes from the Dead Sea's surrounding mineral mud. If they're using salt taken directly from the lake (less likely), the price is $8.67 per pound. Magnesium chloride rock salt is $1.40 a pound if shipped by freight and $.66 a pound from your local hardware store during the winter months. Interestingly, the same companies provide both the retail and the hardware store versions of magnesium chloride.
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