I recently discovered the wonderful online shop and brick and mortar Venice shop, LIVING LIBATIONS and I am in love!

Living Libations is an exquisite line of serums, elixirs and essentials oils for those seeking the purest of the pure botanical health and beauty products on the planet.

I simply HAD to get their SALT INHALER after reading about Nadine on The Chalkboard. I was enthralled by a piece about where she addressed Oral Health (officially on board with her entire regime – well, most of it!) and then I just went full on digging around and needed to know everything!

The Salt Inhaler is a positively purifying device that cleanses the entire respiratory system by flushing out allergens and impurities. The salt inhaler, also known as a salt pipe has been featured on theDr. Oz show and named one of Alternative Medicine’s 2010 Best New Products.

I just started working with it and it’s pretty cool – so far, I am just getting used to it, but it’s supposed to be excellent for many reasons – here are few I found just poking around the web.

9 Health Benefits of Salt Inhalers

1. Helps with Sinus Ailments

Salt inhalation therapy has been used to boost overall respiratory strength and lung capacity. Studies from the 1800’s found that breathing pure, ionized (salted) air in salt mines could help reduce respiratory problems and the general irritation cause by smoking and air pollution.

2. Supports Harmful Organism Cleansing

Himalayan salt has been used as a cleansing agent against harmful organisms. In fact, it is a commonly used holistic health practice to help individuals with respiratory difficulties, and may even work better than some of the commonly prescribed options for these conditions.

3. May Help Reduce Swelling and Redness

Crystal salt helps reduce redness and swelling, aiding in the body’s ability to fight off responses that lead to deterioration in the body over time.

4. Detoxifies Air

We breathe in a shocking amount of chemical pollutants, as well as smoke, dust, smog and pet dander. Our lungs are under constant stress from air pollution. Similarly, many smokers have found comfort in using the Himalayan salt inhaler, as it helps reduce withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting.

5. May Help Lower Blood Pressure

High in the mineral potassium, the Himalayan sea salt inhaler may also aid in stabilizing blood pressure.

6. Deepens Breath Capacity and Promotes Mental Calmness

Given its ability to increase the body’s natural ability to breathe deeply, a salt inhaler may provide a variety of psychological benefits. The ability to breathe easily promotes their body’s own natural relaxation response.

7. Aids in Promoting Sound Sleep

Using a Himalayan salt inhaler is believed to help people breathe better at night. It may also reduce or eliminate night coughs, snoring, and breath-related sleeping conditions. In addition, some people find that Himalayan salt lamps such as this 3D moon night light design can boost their overall mood helping them to sleep more soundly.

8. May Help Reduce Mucus Build Up

Salt is a natural cleansing expectorant, and can aid in reducing excess mucous and general nose and throat stuffiness.

9. Moisturizes Dry Mucous Membranes

A crystal salt inhaler is great for taking aboard an airplane, as the salt hydrates the respiratory system while we travel.

I am pretty obsessed with oral care and flossing and tongue scrapping ( I bought the IONIC toothbrush and scraper she suggests)

I cannot wait to get to work with some of the oral goodies too!

Living Libations was created by Nadine Artemis, beauty philosopher, aromacologist, and botanical muse, shaping plant-intelligence into palpable consecrations to blush senses and muse imaginations.

Living Libations is a line of serums, elixirs, and essentials oil that nurture beauty, enhance the immune, and promote healthy good oral care. Nadine is the author of Holistic Dental Care: the Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums.

Nadine’s official biography begins when she first combines flasks of essential oils to recreate Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps for a school science fair. These botanical-inclinations led her on petal-pathed adventures in creating organic beauty balms, reviving elixirs, healing oral care and perfumed poetry to quench the natural yearnings of many.

Nadine opened North America’s first full concept Aromatherapy store, Osmosis, in 1994. Since that day Nadine has since received glowing reviews for her formulations in the Hollywood Reporter, Flare, the New York Times, Vogue and The National Post. Nadine has also addressed gatherings at conferences, appeared on television and radio shows.

Ron

After spending many years in Downward Dog, Ron realized breathing came naturally to him. So, he set off for India where he learned from Ashtanga yoga guru, Patabhi Jois.

After sweating for many moons under his tutelage, his guru’s parting words of wisdom were, “Ron, you be Action Hero.” With this prophecy of adventure in mind, Ron walked across the desert of India looking for savasana in the shade and a mantra in some mythical yogi-cave. Later, he toured as the Bare Naked Ladies yoga advisor perfecting bhujapidasana and passing through many sidhis.

On this hero’s journey, Ron realized that meditation is anytime, anywhere: breathing yoga into a pathless land. Now Ron is expanding that breathing into beats and weaving rhythms into dance music and ambient sounds that have listeners spellbound.

Together

Upon meeting, Nadine was compelled by Ron’s life-force, infinite intelligence and divine playfulness. He was enraptured with being alive and emanated a wondrous, crazy wisdom. To Nadine, Ron was a troubadour, a Prince of Song, and she was enchanted by his bardic grace and strength.

At first inhalation, Ron smiled at the woman that exuded the pure perfume of a jasmine flower. He was struck by her “real to the feel nature” and inner-wisdom-oasis. Ron knew he had found his “howdy-partner.”

Together, they embody a bliss that is caught rather than sought. The alchemy of their cosmic communion pours the levity of life into the sacred and the secular.

Some nights they would stay up “till dawn, imbibing and drinking all of Nadine’s elixirs and sinking into a world of Living Libations. Ron’s chocolate syrup spilled into her jasmine-juice, and then gold lightening burst loose. They played and played until this nectar was made. It was from that moment on that they forever abandoned to play; they bowed, they vowed, and hand in hand, they took the pathless land.

Out of this play their luxurious skin care, restorative essences, and purest of chocolates are made, tuning people’s senses to the adventure of living. In these creations, joyful petals, endless lands and green-leaf glee greet the boundless cosmos of your being. This is the ground to spin around and around and grow branches of bliss to all living things.