Salts, sugar, oils and pastes from Ingo Holland - Old Spice Office

Salts, sugar, oils and pastes from Ingo Holland - Old Spice Office

You can live without gold, but not without salt! There`s an old German saying that says this.

Speaking of old: many salt deposits are up to five hundred thousand years old - for example the Himalayan salt, which comes from the Hunza Valley in Pakistan. And salt production hasn`t just been known since yesterday: Sumerians and Babylonians already preserved their food with salt in ancient times.

Salt has long been an extremely valuable commodity - and, depending on its provenance, it still is today. It is not called white gold for nothing. And it is also reflected in the etymology: it is found in the salary, in the pay and in the word soldier - after all, it was once a means of payment.

How important salt was - and is - is also shown by the abundance of proverbs and sayings surrounding salt. The Lebanese philosopher and poet Khalil Gibran expressed his reverence for salt in these beautiful words: There must be something unusually sacred in salt: you find it in our tears and in the sea.


Excerpt from the book Salt by Ingo Holland