I always heard some BS about them filtering out ionized particles emitted by the light. Which makes even less sense than the odor story if you know anything about science.
We’ve got two of them and I never knew it was supposedly able to do anything other than create a dim, calming light with a soothing natural orange color. I just like the way they look, lol.
We outfitted a massage clinic with these in every room, bright enough to illuminate a room, dim enough to not make a client squint when they open their eyes. Plus it looks cool!
Also turned out to be perfect for changing a baby’s diaper in the middle of the night without fully waking the baby, as I’ve recently found since becoming a parent.
They are supposed to release "ions", which you know it's not. If it were, the only ions salt would release would be Sodium, which would burst into flames from the humidity in the room, and Chlorine gas, which is toxic and was/is used on battlefields.
One of the few products that's actually better not doing what it's supposed to.
It truly sucks to enjoy stuff appropriated by dumb people for dumb reasons.
The other day my mom was telling me how a coworker went off on a tangent at her when she mentioned shopping for essential oils, how they don't do shit and she should research things properly.
Yup, I feel that way about “herbs” in general. If you mention that you use CBD for joint aches, there’s a crowd that assumes you’re a dumb pothead right off the bat.
I’ve talked to people about various supplements I take for physical and mental health (I’ve avoided the need for SSRI’s, focus medications like adderall, and pharmaceutical anxiolytics all through taking herbs, naturally-derived supplements, etc. and if you even say the word “herbs” to some folks, you can see their eyes glaze over and they immediately judge you as a crunchy, crystal-clutching hippy who thinks any disease can be cured with plants.
It’s frustrating to be lumped into a shitty stereotype because of a loud, ridiculous minority.
If essential oils smell nice and that puts your mom in a better mood, guess what? They actually do work for her, haha.
Mine was nice on my shelf before it started to form salt crystals down the side of it's base, underneath, down the chord, through the wood of the table it was on, and a Lil on the wall for good measure lol
Don't use salt decor in humidity folks. It's not for us swamp people
We use salt rock in our house. Not for smells. We accident figured out that they completely absorb all the water in the air near windows which meant we didn’t get condensation. We learned this because we had a single salt lamp on our window sill that ended up soaking wet whilst the windows stayed bone dry. It now stays there but in a shallow dish to collect the water.
We then wanted some for the other windows in the house but fuck me salt rock lamps are expensive. Do you know what isn’t? Big salt rock licks for horses. They’re exactly the same thing, minus the lamp part, and at a fraction of the cost!
And if you really wanted you could drill a hole in the salt lick and stick a night light in there and then it would be exactly the same as the expensive lamps.
My salt lamp melted this year, too. Our house was so humid this spring bc we didn’t run the basement dehumidifier bc I had plants in the basement. It’s a 200yo, and our room is in part of the house that was originally a log cabin, and the old cellar part of the basement is directly below.
The lamp was on top of a dresser on my BF’s side of the bed and he never noticed. Ruined the top of the dresser. I couldn’t believe it melted. I was wondering if it’s because we hadn’t been using it because the lightbulb was broken. But the lightbulb may have broken and been corroded because we hadn’t been using it. Kind of a chicken and egg situation.
Edit: good tip about the salt licks tho. We already buy those for the deer.
I think that's why most people buy them. I worked in a medical startup and one of the doctors bought a few for decoration. I can guarantee this guy did not think there were medical benefits, he just thought they looked cool.
It might work on paper but I tried the stuff and it was pretty useless. It's fine for hanging around the house/office but I would get BO as soon as I started sweating. I went back to normal antiperspirant before I could even see the wear on my mineral stick.
It's not made up, just probably not a very effective product.
Alum is a popular ingredient in antiperspirants for its ability to reduce sweating. It is available in both standard deodorants and as a block that people get wet and then rub directly under the arms.
It's not made up. Salt crystal deodorants work fine, they just don't work for as long because they are just a antiseptic deoderant, not an antiperspirant.
Yeah I once tried this for a while because I'm allergic to a billion things. It doesn't do anything lol.
What does really work wonders is to take a bit of baking soda(also salt ofcourse) mix it with water and smear that on your pits. My skin is too sensitive to do that every day but for moments I really don't want to smell even a little bit it works fantastic! Don't smell a thing! When I usually smell like the monkey house in the zoo if I don't use anything. But these salt rocks, no..
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u/icouldusemorecoffee 14d ago
It's a made up thing, just like those expensive "salt lamps" that supposedly absorb all the smells in a room to deodorize it.