Himalayan rock salt which is used to make these tiles contain naturally occurring trace elements that give these rock salt crystals a beet-red to pink tinge. This pink shade renders the Himalayan rock salt tiles enticing enough to use them for decorative purposes in your homes and offices. It is also used in spas to make salt rooms.

Himalayan salt tile walls also emerge anions, these negatively charged ions positively impact your body by alleviating depression, and anxiety and inducing good effects on your lungs. The salt crystals also improve breathing issues when inhaled, this phenomenon is known as Halotherapy or salt therapy. Several studies have been performed to evaluate the effect of salt inhalation.

1.   Using The Existing Wall And The Floor Of Your Home

You can construct the Himalayan pink salt wall using any other wall for support but before that, you have to ensure that the walls and floor, to which you are going to fix the pink salt wall, are sturdy enough to endure the weight of the salt wall.

You can construct a Himalayan salt tile wall in the same manner as the normal brick wall using adhesive or grouts to fill voids between the tiles to keep them aligned or you may use any other special material to make it ravishingly beautiful.

In addition to that, you have to install lighting behind the pink salt wall, providing sufficient space between the wall used for support and the pink salt wall to allow proper airflow and secondly to have access there for the regular maintenance of the light feature.

2.   Freestanding Himalayan Pink Salt Walls

This pink salt tile wall can be constructed independently on the floor without the support of any existing wall, providing that the floor is capable enough to bear the weight of the salt blocks. Such walls are installed mostly as partition walls in master bedrooms or open spaces of your home.

• Air cleansing effect: salt attracts the water molecules in the air along with the airborne particles to its surface and evaporates the water through the heat of the salt wall and releases the water molecules in the air while trapping the airborne particles. Thus, cleaning the quality of the air.

There are numerous ways to backlight a salt wall by tube lighting, rope lighting or track lighting, etc. It is appropriate to use a light that backlights the salt wall with the flick of a switch so you can easily light it up when needed.

Pink Salt Caves For Halotherapy Or Dry Salt Therapy

Himalayan pink salt caves are designed to imitate the environment of natural salt caves. These caves have the floor and walls made of Himalayan pink salt tiles. You just have to sit calmly inside and inhale the salty air. It’s a passive type of salt therapy that is used as a therapeutic measure for chronic obstructive airway diseases.