Hand-harvested, unprocessed, unrefined. From the natural park of Ria Formosa. Traditional hand-harvested salt. In the natural park of Ria Formosa, situated beside the Atlantic Ocean, salt farmers have kept to traditional methods in their salt gathering practices for hundreds of years. Their skill at working with the four elements: water, wind, clay and sun result in obtaining good salt, in contrast to the heavily processed and refined salt that is not good for you. The ocean water is let into clay pools, where the wind and the sun naturally cause the water to evaporate, letting the salt settle to the bottom. The artisans wooden rakes every fifteen days during the hottest months of the year. This compound of 84 minerals and other elements that exist in the water of the sea is necessary to sustain life. Salt rejuvenates the body and has innumerable health benefits. It eliminates toxins and helps prevent sickness. It is of vital importance for digestion, stimulates salivary secretion, makes food easier to assimilate while drawing out the nutritional components of foods. Salt has always has an important role in medicine. It is useful in healing wounds and skin disease, relieving allergies, and balancing the pH of the body. Mineral-rich salt helps the body to assimilate only the needed quantity of sodium, actually helping to regulate the body. It is hard to find another complement of nutrients with the same value and richness of minerals than those readily found in unrefined sea salt.