The Dead Sea mud differs from mineral sea salts in 2 important ways.
" They contain 10 times more minerals than sea salt"

" The Dead Sea mud absorbs essential oils with ease which enables them to be released into the bath water as they dissolve."

This is beneficial for those wishing to benefit from the Dead Sea in the privacy of their own home.
Some of the minerals found in the Dead Sea Mud are listed below together with their functions or benefits to health. This provides some insight as to why these minerals assist in cleansing, detoxing and restoring a healthy status quo of the body and especially the skin and muscles.

Balneotherapy
Is an ancient healing in using mineral salt water and body mud, usually with added salts thereby distinguishing it from hydrotherapy to condition, relax and revitalize the skin, body and muscles. Its benefits are seen in improving circulation, strengthening the immune system, reducing pain, stress and insomnia.
Assisting to replace or remove electrolytes enables the body to maintain a good fluid balance thereby improving a feeling of relaxation, health and well - being. Below is a list of the therapeutic benefits of the Dead Sea products together with the conditions or systems they alleviate.

Dead Sea Minerals list:

Magnesium concentrations found in the Dead Sea are fifteen times higher than salts in other seas. Magnesium is essential for cell metabolism. For instance, a significant deficit in Magnesium has been discovered in skin scales and serum of patients with psoriasis. Magnesium supposedly affects the ripening of skin cells of psoriasis patients. Moreover, in cases of bronchi, Magnesium works as anti-allergic agent.

Potassium improves the oxidation and regulates the electrical process of the muscles and the nervous system. Asthma patients achieve good results from inhaling the salt vapors.

Bromide concentration is 50 times higher than common salts. Thus having a very relaxing effect.

Chlorine necessary to maintain the correct balance of alkaline and acid in the body, together with being vital for cell metabolism.

Calcium is necessary in strenghtening cell membranes and cleansing the pores. In addition it is vital for production and maintenance of healthy teeth and bones, together with regulating the heart muscles and nerves.

Zinc Plays a role in enzymatic regulation of cell proliferation.