Authentic & natural cure
Inhalation treatments in natural salt caves (Speleotherapy) have been known since long.
The efficacy of Speleotherapy is associated with the unique cave microclimate. The natural dry sodium chloride aerosol is the major curative factor of the cave microclimate. Other factors such as comfortable temperature and humidity regime, enhance the therapeutic effect.
A suggestion that it is the air saturated with salt dust that causes the main curative effect in the Speleotherapy of patients with respiratory diseases was first formulated by a Polish physician F.Bochkowsky in 1843. Salt mines are known to be used for therapeutic purposes in countries such as Austria (Solzbad-Salzetnan), Rumania (Sieged), Poland (Wieliczka), Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan), Kirgizia (Chon-Tous), Russia (Berezniki, Perm region), the Ukraine (Solotvino, Carpathians), Artiomovsk, Donietsk region).
Halotherapy
As a result of high demand and lack of salt mines, above ground simulated rooms were created. Rooms plastered with rock salt or sea salt on the walls and layers of salt on the floor initially seemed an alternative to underground salt mines to provide Dry Salt Aerosol inhalation therapy close to where people were living. This alternative inhalation therapy was introduced in Eastern Europe under the name Halotherapy in the last decade of the 20th century. Russian physicians have then started to perform research on the effects of Dry Salt Aerosol inhalation therapy on various target groups.
Salt generators
Due to lack of control of sufficient salt aerosol in the halorooms, a Russian company developed the first device to grind salt and blow the small particles into halorooms. The devices, called salt generators, were filled with salt every hour and people could inhale salted air that was blown inside the halorooms. Since then, few other companies have developed similar devices that are filled up with salt every 1 to 2 hours to blow salt aerosol inside small halorooms. Unfortunately most of the devices introduced, are not measuring and controlling the exact concentrations Dry Salt Aerosol inside these rooms. Also the quality of air is hardly paid attention to in most cases which makes a stay inside a haloroom not always a pleasant stay.
Microsalt Micronizer
in 2005, initiator of Microsalt, Bart Zonnenberg, started a market research to find out the truth behind Dry Salt Aerosol inhalation rooms and the health effects that were claimed. in parallel to his research he consulted multiple health and wellness resorts in Western Europe to hear how a new health concept based on Dry Salt Aerosol inhalation would be perceived. Based on the market criteria received, Microsalt was founded in 2006 and the development of technology that would fulfill market demands as well as health safety criteria was started. In November 2007, Microsalt introduced its first generation Micronizers to European markets.
Microsalt Salounge
In 2007, Microsalt introduced the Salounge, a comfortable space for people, looking for optimal relaxation and respiratory health support. A Salounge contains a Dry Salt Aerosol microclimate that is carefully monitored by sensors. As a result of technological developments performed by Microsalt, Dry Salt Aerosol rooms no longer needed to be filled and covered with salt to simulate a salt climate. An intelligent, fully automated Dry Salt Aerosol micronizer that manages exact salt aerosol concentrations in combination with a climatization solution, made it possible to virtually use any type of room available and design it in a way that would make it easy to maintain.
Today, Microsalt Salounges are used by various companies in more than 9 countries and Microsalt is quickly expanding into other geographic areas. Microsalt now offers a range of Dry Salt Aerosol devices to suit needs of a broad range of customers.