What is a salt crystal lamp and what does it do?
This is a salt lamp that has a light bulb, usually 15 watts, that is housed in a heavy chunk of natural salt mined from the Himalayas. It is supposed to neutralize pollutants and toxins. When the salt gets gently heated from the bulb, salt crystals are released into the air, attach to impurities and then weigh them down so they cannot circulate – then you cannot breathe them in. When I lived In Seoul, S. Korea there was a shop across the street from my officetel** selling salt crystals lamps almost exclusively. They had every size and shape – some quite massive, and different degrees of coloring. It was time to buy one. I bought a smaller one, very orange in coloring and paid the equivalent of $50.00. The instruction book said it is useful to use around computers, TV sets and other electrical equipment as those items produce positive ions while the lamp produces negative ions. What I noticed immediately is the light. I have to say it was so soothing and lovely to look at in an otherwis
