Here's some info. on Himalayan salt being found high in fluoride. I'll be using Celtic sea salt from now on.

https://www.poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/himalaya.html

Here's most of the article:

Over the last few years a new scam has emerged in Europe which is rapidly
spreading across the world.

It involves ordinary rock salt from the "salt range" in Pakistan being marketed
as luxurious and healing "Himalaya Salt".

It is also sold as "Himalayan Crystal Salt", "Hunza-Kristallsalz" or natural
"Kristallsalz", "VitaSal", "AromaLife", etc..

The scam is currently being introduced in India and the United States.

It will result in very high overall fluoride intake in anyone who follows the
various "therapy recommendations".

What happened?

During the late 1990s recordings started to appear in Germany, featuring a
monologue by a self-proclaimed "biophysicist" named Peter Ferreira.

The monologue centered around the "marvelous healing energies" of "Himalaya
Salt" (Himalaya Salz) and "living waters" (Lebendiges Wasser) -> mineral or
springwaters ("Quellwasser").

This special salt was allegedly coming from the high mountain regions of the
Himalayas, "untouched by human contamination", containing "84 elements
essential to human health". The tape was copied and passed on by thousands.

The salt was sold at a price much higher than ordinary salt, up to 200 times as
much. It was common to see it being sold for 24 Euros per kilogram.

Lectures were organized and a video called "Water & Salt" ("Wasser & Salz") was
shown to packed houses (Zeit & Geist, 2002). A book with the title "Water & Salt
- Essence of Life" by Peter Ferreira and Dr. med. Barbara Hendel became a
runaway bestseller in 2002 - simply by word of mouth, even spawning a glossy
magazine with the same title. [The book is currently being translated into
English and slated for release in the US.]

Within months "Himalaya Salt" became all the rage in Switzerland, Austria and
Germany, quickly spreading to Denmark, Holland and other European countries.

The European alternative health industry was quick to jump on the bandwagon and
an article on "Himalaya Salt" praising its superior qualities to conventional
salt became the most-read article on the German site of "Alternative Health"
("Alternative Gesundheit).

"Himalaya Salt" sales are consistently in the Top 10 of "alternative health
products".

Originally marketed on the Internet, there are now countless varieties of
products containing "Himalaya Salt" available, including herbal salts, bath
salts, facial masks, cosmetic lines, as well as salt lamps and tealights.

Many international websites can now be found praising and selling this "Elixir
of Live", "Fountain of Youth", or "salt of life".

The salt comes as fine salt to be used for cooking, or as salt crystals or
blocks of salt, to be used for daily "sole" drinks and baths, oral rinses, eye
baths, and inhalation therapy.

In addition, the salt is marketed extensively for other uses, and there are now
tealights or "salt lamps" (used as natural "ionizers"), a complete cosmetic line
including soaps, facial sprays, body lotions, "peeling" lotions, hand creams,
steam bath aids, sauna aids, bath salts with rose petals, and shower gels.

Origin of "Himalaya Salt"

It is claimed that the "magic salt" is coming from the Karakorum (Ferreira,
2002). However, as pointed out by the group TourismWatch (No.28 and No.30) there
is no salt mine to be found anywhere in this Himalayan region. Most of the salt
was coming from the second largest salt mine in the world, in Pakistan.

After the boom began, it was found that even ordinary road salt was being sold
as "Himalaya Salt" by ruthless opportunists.

I was hoping someone had heard of this before. But maybe not. Not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing.

From everything I've heard, I don't think fluoride is ever a good thing. I have only used a very cheap brand of sea salt, the Natural Value brand, less than $1 for 26oz. Iodized for the table and cooking, and non-iodized for nasal and throat rinses. I never thought that it would have fluoride in it, hopefully it doesn't.

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Hymalayan salt also contains copper, which gives it the pink color. You should not even worry about any single mineral component, since it contains other minerals in balance. For example, it contains fluoride's sister halogens, such as chloride and iodine. Iodine is probably the only mineral that can displace or chelate fluoride. Nature is pretty good about keeping a balance. Think of the mineral content of sea weeds, which are very good for you. Mercury is included. And yet again, it contains iodine which chelates mercury.

To really scare you, here are the mineral components of Himalayan salt. And regular sea salt contains these too.

hydrogen, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluoride, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chloride, calcium, scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium, arsenic, selenium, bromine, rubidium, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, cadmium, indium, tin, antimony, tellurium, iodine, cesium, barium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, astatine, francium, radium, actinium, thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.

I can see several of those that scare me, but not when combined like that.

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https://www.natmedtalk.com/blogs/jfh

I've never used anything but Celtic Sea Salt. It may be a bit more expensive but I figure it's the best.

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Just looked - Vitacost sells a number of different Sea Salt products but not the Celtic Sea Salt.
I just found out this morning that they sell Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar & Braggs Liquid Amino Acids too.
Excellent prices too....better than my health food store.

Thanks jfh for the information and the great explanation! Now I remember what you told me when I was hesitant to take the Kelp caps I bought which contained a mercury warning.

I see evert element has been listed. As a chemist, let me explain. Let's take mercury. If you had enough of that salt to fill the grand canyon, you might have 1 drop of mercury at the most. Nothing to worry about.

Right. That what it means when ingredients say "trace" minerals. Sodium and chloride are not trace, but others are. This is true of sea weeds too. We need a chemist. Thanks.

This still does scare me. I purchased 25 lbs. of Himalayan salt online several months ago. I've used it in pickling veggies, 1 tsp. with filtered warm water first thing in the morning to flush things out of my body, in cooking, etc.. And several months ago I developed tinnitus. It's driving me crazy and I'm thinking I may have too many metals in my brain. ( I had 10 mercury fillings removed 4 months ago too)

Good that you had those fillings removed, that's something I haven't done yet. The tinnitus may not have anything to do with the salt though, maybe more with the cold, flu or allergies.

https://www.natmedtalk.com/wiki/Tinnitus

I believe that after the first 2 years of new fillings, there is no more leaching. Certainly no more significant than what you would consume in your daily diet (most vegetables have trace amounts, fish and seaweeds). So damage is already done. I see no need to get rid of any older than that. There are several things, in our food and natural health protocols that would bind/chelate mercury, especially those foods with phytates (phytic acid). We consume chelation agents daily. They are bound so tightly with mercury that none is released for recycle.

IMO, this whole amalgam stuff is way overblown.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum
No doubt mercury is extremely toxic. As children or in ignorance, we got amalgam fillings. Those have already done their damage. We have a choice now. But I see no need to spend so much money in the attempt to reverse something that is causing no more damage.