Menthol is one of the chemicals found in many mint plants that give them their distinctive ‘minty-ness’. It is a powerfully refreshing and invigorating scent commonly used in balms and chest rubs.
Dead Sea salt is a wonderfully complex assemblage of minerals and chemicals including bromides, iodine, magnesium, sodium, calcium and potassium. It is priced and sold by the ounce.
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published.
