Bath salts could save NHS at least £14.5 billion annually

Bath salt giants reveals how salts can save millions of lives and can save the government billions without having to make cuts.

Despite its rising popularity, many people are still oblivious as to the benefits of using bath salts.

Leading beauty salt providers Westlab can reveal that not only can it improve your skin, whatever your condition, but it can also save your NHS billions every year.

Westlab has an ever expanding range of salt products, but they also have health and wellness clinics in Chiswick, Berkhamsted and Surrey.

Their most popular products are pouches of Epsom salts, Himalayan salts and Dead Sea salts.

Suitable for both drinking and bathing, they’re good for various illness prevention such as dry cough, sore throat, digestive disorders, muscle cramps etc.

Scott Livingston, Westlab boss, said: “It’s good high quality salt with many more minerals than ordinary salt and it’s cheap.

“People are sick of creams and potions and lotions to a large degree.”

According to the Scottish NHS, patients with sore throats cost them £10.9 million per annum, before any treatment or investigation.

Dead Sea salt, taken straight from the Dead Sea, baths for detoxification, arthritis, rheumatism, fibromyalgia and psoriasis. The combination of Dead Sea water therapy with sun treatments, reduces symptoms of eczema.

Rheumatism arthritis affects 600,000 Britons and costs the economy over £8 billion every year.

Drugs which GPs give to those suffering from psoriasis costs an average of around £9500 per patient per year, compared with around £450 per year for conventional therapy.

Psoraisis affects 2.5% of UK population (approx. 600,000 people).

Meanwhile Epsom salt baths, which are famously used by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lawrence and Victoria Beckham, reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, eczema, dandruff and warts.

Philip Steward, therapist at Hands on Clinic, North Devon, said: “Epsom salts will [also] boost your skin’s magnesium level.

“Epsom salts rejuvenate and rehydrate skin as well as remove toxins.

“Because the minerals are being absorbed through the skin, you can’t overdose on it.”

Based in West Byfleet in the outskirts of London, Westlab provides salt for customers worldwide.

They sell in Tesco Nutricentres, Sainsbury’s and their products are available on Amazon.