Anti aging:Will the Demise of the Dead Sea Affect Anti-Aging Mud Treatments? by Lorne Caplan

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It has been reported that since the 1960’s, population growth and irrigation has contributed to the shrinking of the Dead Sea by over 30% of it’s former banks. The rise in tourism and skin care / wellness benefits for anti-aging beauty treatments has been a major factor as well. Now, with the quickening pace of the depletion of the healing, heavily supersaturated salinic waters, beauty experts and cosmetic chemists have been looking in different places. So what can take the place, if anything can, of Dead sea minerals and muds that have started myriad healing skin care companies?

Despite calls for another one third of the Dead Sea to disappear in 10-20 years, there is no need for a replacement for it’s anti-aging beauty and healing properties. The constituents of the Dead Sea Mud are well known and have been deciphered numerous times. The rich combination of minerals is a major factor for accelerating healing, reducing inflammation, a major culprit of skin damage along with the inert components that provide additional skin support.

So if we are to no longer have Dead Sea Mud to apply to our faces and bodies, what will take it’s place? Essentially, any low lying highly mineralized body of water from the most obscure hot spring in Bonita Springs Florida (I told you obscure), to Moor Mud that comes from the peat bogs of Canada. Those are just two of many examples of less famous, but just as beneficial products that have been available for just as long as the Dead Sea has been around.

Some, are more beneficial because of the lack of harsh levels of minerals, combined with a smoothing elemental aspect such as peat bogs provide or supposedly some of the most purified mud, coming from the receding glaciers of Alaska (yes, there are high deposits of minerals and salts in the wake of these ancient glaciers, but they fall more into the clay category.

What then sets apart, peat, from mud, from clay and any other form of dirt that might be considered a remedy for aging? Limited amounts of minerals, the density of sand, rock, pumice, etc… This uniqueness of raw material is important to each one of us who wants to consider the potential for healing our ailments or physical afflictions. This is the duty of the skin care professional and the client to determine.

As an example, if you are suffering from breakouts, acne and other eruptions, you would probably be better off with a heavy clay treatment to dry out the skin and sebum producing factories of your pores and then moisturize with a light gel or serum so as not to cause a rebound reaction.

If your face tends toward the rosacea and sensitive side, you’d want to stay away from the harsher dead Seas muds and focus instead on the benefits of calming Moor Mud that is in a variety of clinicals for psoriasis and other skin ailments and showing positive outcomes.

By now, you might understand that it is highly important to know your skin before you leap into any treatment. If you simply wanted to try to float in the Dead Sea to experience the weightlessness and slather on a little mud for good measure, great. However, the processed muds that you are getting from companies that have made a fortune on the back of the storied Sea like Ahava have not proven more effective than any of the other earth based treatments and with such a variety of products and of skin types and afflictions, why lament the loss of the Dead Sea mud when it may very well be too harsh or not efficacious for you to begin with? (Yes, the loss of the Sea is criminal if considering it’s importance in human history, but we’re just talking wellness and skin care here). Health Information