Description

OUR SEA SALT
The sea salt that we use in our products comes from the west coast of South Africa, in a region that has had little human intervention to this day.
There, a huge, subterranean seawater lake feeds our salt marshes, from which the salt for our salt mixtures is extracted by hand. These special geological conditions on site ensure that our sea salt is completely free of microplastic contamination – on the other hand, the purity and salt content is so high right from the start that our salt hardly needs any further treatment. A purely natural product, and has been for hundreds of years.

The salt garden – as the differently sized and deep pools of water are called, in which the salt matures – lies above a cave with a huge, subterranean seawater lake which, according to geological reports, is at least 400 years old – and free from today’s unfortunately dramatic pollution of the Oceans – therefore also free of microplastics. The water for the salt production is not – as is usually the case with sea salt production – fed directly from the sea into the salt garden – but comes from this underground seawater lake. The water is pumped up by means of a pumping station and directed into the salt marsh. It is subterranean, clean seawater that already has a salinity of 10%. The cold South Atlantic Ocean, which is still one of the cleanest seas on our planet, seeps underground through a layer of quartz sand, shell limestone and clay around two thousand meters thick – the perfect natural filter – into this seawater lake, filling it up again and forming part of a natural cycle.

Our South African partner is a small family business with the aim of producing first-class sea salt in harmony with people and nature and is a member of the global Fair Trade organization. The labor intensive process creates employment and development opportunities for people in an underdeveloped region of South Africa where the population used to live from fishing. Fair, socially responsible and people-friendly working conditions are just as much a part of everyday business as international hygiene standards in the food sector.