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*[http://www.whoscloset.com/Himalayan-Salt-Lamps-~-A-Guide-to-Purchasing-sp-5.html Himalayan Salt Lamps ~ A Guide to Purchasing] |
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*[http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/voys/theregoesthesciencebit.pdf Lardge J, "Salt lamp: heated Himalayan salt improves your health" in ''There Goes the Science Bit'', published by Sense about Science] |
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Revision as of 01:43, 19 April 2008
A salt lamp is a lamp carved from natural salt crystal, often colored, with an incandescent bulb or a candle inside. The largest producers of this product are located in Pakistan, with Poland and Iran also offering variations.
The lamps are often sold with claims of their health-promoting properties, such as the ability to release ions that purify the air. Peer-reviewed studies and research confirming or denying the claim of salt lamps' negative ion generation are difficult to find, if they exist at all. The UK science group Sense About Science attempted to find a scientific basis for the dubious claims made by salt lamp sellers, but did not find any evidence to back up the salt lamp sellers' claims of health benefits.
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