The Salts of Life

According to Wikipedia, salt is a dietary mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride that is essential for animal life but toxic to most land plants. At home, we use four kinds of salts.


The table salt or iodized salt which i use for cooking, which is also a preservative and a popular food seasoning. The one in the middle is a special powder salt which we use in the dishwashing machine to prevent it from clogging.

Above is the regeneration salt in cubes for our water purifying machine to remove the calcium in water to prevent the water pipe from clogging


This is our ice melting salt in small grains of stone to melt the snow and ice during winter season. So salt is really very important in every household.