Bitter salt (magnesium or EPSOM salt) 750g

Top quality EPSOM Salt. Extremely clean, suitable for consumption and also dermatologically tested in German laboratories. Certified and in a handy, PET packaging that you simply re-close. Best buy EPSOM salt in Slovenia!

Bitter salt, magnesium salt or EPSOM salt are different names for this inorganic magnesium sulphate salt. Although it can also be taken orally, it has traditionally been used for salt baths. Athletes have used it to release tired muscles and gardeners to improve their crops. Bitter salt has many other positive properties (e.g. you can use it if you have a splinter).

Bitter salt is even on the list of the most important medicines of the World Health Organization. The pharmaceutical preparation it is approwed for external and internal use. Magnesium oil is well-soluble in water and creams with fat content slow its absorption.

In medicine, magnesium salt is

• Also injected as intravenous magnesium
• Used as a laxative
• and agains arrhythmia
• As Bronchodilator when beta-agonists and Anticholinergics do not work.

These claims apply to the pharmaceuticals of EPSOM salt and apply only when used in Medicine.

Magnesium Oil

From EPSOM salts You can make your own magnesium Oil. Take distilled water and stir it with bitter salt in a ratio of 1:1 (by weight). Stir until it is fully dissolved and then use as magnesium oil on the Skin.

Bitter salt in gardening

In gardening, EPSOM salt is used to increase the magnesium and sulfur content of the Soil. It is most commonly used for plants in pots and plant cultivation, which require large amounts of magnesium such as potatoes, flowers, tomatoes, carrots and Peppers.

The advantage of magnesium salts in comparison to other preparations is in its high solubility in Water. For this reason, it may also be splashed directly to plant leaves. Since the pH of the solution of bitter salt is relatively neutral, it does not change the pH of the soil as other magnesiums.

Magnesium for Aquariums

Magnesium salt is also excellent for use in marine aquariums that contain corals as they consume magnesium in the process of calcification. In an aquarium without magnesium, it is extremely difficult to control alkalinity, as there is not enough magnesium available to stabilize ions in salt water and to prevent them from moving to calcium carbonate.

Other uses of bitter salt

EPSOM salt has many other uses that derive mainly from its properties of increases in osmotic pressure. In this way, it can reduce swellings or remove fragments of splinters (dissolve a cup of Epsom salt in a container of water and soak the injured body part).

Against the stings of bees or wasps you can use the Epsom Salt compresses.

It also works with sun or other skin burns. Just take a cold bath whit it.