Many people have problems with psoriasis. Psoriasis sufferers have tried using salt water to have their painful and itchy skins healed. Some of them even made pilgrimages to the the Dead Sea.

The Dead Sea can heal Psoriasis according to Lawrence C. Parish, M.D. who studied in Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The Dead Sea reaches to the lowest point on our planet, and the area has its own climate. The area receives a different and distinctive kind of ultra violet spectrum from the sun.

The Dead Sea's climate offers very low pollution, a great climate year-round with dry air and sunny skies. It only has about less than 50mm of annual rainfall and has an average temperature between 32 and 39 °C every summer. Its winter temperature ranges about 20 and 23 °C. This region has a low ultraviolet radiation, and it has an atmosphere with high oxygen content.

About more than 5% of the world's population are now suffering from Psoriasis. Psoriasis is a skin disease, which occurs in the skin in dry and red patches. For now there is still no total cure for this psoriasis disease. Soaking in bath water containing Dead Sea salts or Epsom salts seems to aide in the treatment of psoriasis by removes the scales of psoriasis and bringing comfort to patients.

The minerals in the Dead Sea salt and it is detoxifying properties, salts and mud, cleanse and detoxify our body naturally, pulling out the toxins away from our skin. Many people who are affected with the ailment only turn their hopes to Dead Sea cosmetics. These cosmetics are made with Dead Sea Salt and minerals for a more natural based and effective source of treatment.

The Dead Sea is located in Jordan and Israel and attracts thousands of tourists every year for a bathe in the first legendary waters and experiences the beautifying and healing powers of it. The Dead Sea attracted many legendary biblical and historical figures, for instance, Cleopatra. She was fond of the high mineral composition of the Dead Sea.