Inorganic and organic characterization of Santa Lucía salt mine peloid for quality evaluations

Comparative Study of SPA Mud from “Bacino Idrominerario Omogeneo dei Colli Euganei (B.I.O.C.E.)–Italy” and Industrially Optimized Mud for Skin Applications

“…In the literature, the attention on SPA treatments is mainly focused on their beneficial effects proven by several clinical studies [11][12][13][14], while the chemical and mineralogical study of SPA matrices remains in the background. Considering the increasing use of clay-based products, it becomes essential to characterize peloids from a qualitative and quantitative point of view [16,17]. Starting from the concept that the traditional and consolidated use over the millennia must be confirmed on the base on scientific evidence, we considered that knowledge of the composition of geo-materials is the starting point to reduce possible health risk factors and to deepen other complementary aspects, such as the optimization and functionalization of the product according to its intended use.…”

Peloids as Thermotherapeutic Agents

“…The main properties of peloids recognised are: their applications in thermotherapy [2,3,5,6] manifested by biological effects, metabolic and enzymatic activity, vascular, neuromuscular, analgesic and modifications of the viscoelastic properties of the tissues [7,8]; several other studies have confirmed their anti-inflammatory [9][10][11][12][13][14], chondroprotective [10,11] and immunological actions [10,[14][15][16] which can be attributed to their chemical composition [17][18][19][20] and organic content [21][22][23][24][25][26].…”