Salt lamps are made of pure Himalayan Salt crystals, either in the natural crystal form or hand carved into artistic shapes. These are the easiest and least costly option for incorporating salt into your home lighting and décor scheme. They can be placed throughout the home for completely unique, earthy lighting, while providing unique sculptural conversation pieces when the light is off. Salt lamps can be easily moved to accommodate for other uses of the space, just in case you need that countertop space for a gathering, that coffee table space for a chess game, or you simply decide you would like to move the lamp elsewhere.

Installing this option requires no more effort than determining the perfect areas to place the lamps, making sure there is a sturdy surface to set them on, then plugging them in and enjoying the glow. As each salt lamp is entirely unique, the lamps are not a permanent alteration to your home, and the cost of the lamps is minimal, this is the most affordable and easy way to incorporate Himalayan Salt décor throughout your home.

Salt walls are constructed from solid, 100% pure Himalayan Salt blocks, and can be used to incorporate small to large, entirely customized, permanent salt features into your home. The salt blocks can also be used to create smaller, artistic, lighted wall features which can be moved just like a painting, creating a look entirely unique to your home. The salt blocks used to make both of these features can be arranged into different patterns, and different dimensions of blocks can be used to create mosaic designs. Salt walls can partially cover an existing wall, cover the entire wall from floor to ceiling, or be used to lend sensational lighting and décor to the front of a kitchen island, or other cabinetry work.

Though the cost and installation of salt walls is obviously more extensive, ultimately more permanent, and there are some structural requirements to consider, these decorative features are a uniquely impressive, highly effective way to alter the look and feel of your living space.

Despite the cost and extra installation efforts, the introduction of salt walls into home décor is increasingly popular, especially as more and more people have the opportunity to experience these strikingly unique features in hotels, restaurants, spas, and resorts. It is not uncommon for those who spot these captivating features in commercial buildings to immediately begin rethinking their spring home renovation plans!

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(Himalayan Salt Wall – Image to the left.)

Salt lamps are the easiest and most cost effective way to experience the benefits of Himalayan Salt in your home. They can be just as effective in emitting sufficient levels of negative ions as salt walls, providing the number and size of salt lamps is adequate for the square footage of the space. [View Lamp Size Chart Here>>]

While an adequate number of salt lamps, or the appropriate size of salt lamp for a given space, will provide sufficient coverage to benefit from the ionization effects of the salt, those with more severe allergies or other respiratory conditions may want to consider adding a salt wall, or even a salt room to their home to simulate salt cave therapy and treatment.

The therapeutic effects of salt also include those experienced when breathing microscopic particles of salt emitted into the air by a salt feature, a treatment known in Europe and other countries as Splenotherapy (see more here). Long story short, dust sized particles of salt help prevent and reduce infection when introduced into the respiratory system. The amount of particles introduced into the air are directly related to the size of the exposed surface area of the salt, therefore salt walls are likely to introduce more microscopic salt particles into the air than salt lamps.

Upon finding that their children benefited greatly from salt treatments in established salt cave facilities, a good number of parents who have children with severe allergies have added entire salt rooms to their homes for use as children’s’ play rooms, or bedrooms. Their children are able to benefit from the effects of extended exposure to salt air without regular visits to salt therapy facilities by converting a frequently used area of their home into a “salt therapy cave”, or creating an enclosed “salt cave” independent from the structure of the home.

Salt walls have also become a popular feature for saunas and bathrooms, lending their tranquil, glowing beauty and natural health benefits to these areas of the home as well. It is important to note however that any salt feature placed in a moist area will deteriorate from frequent exposure to excessive moisture.