The miracle of the Dead Sea and Dead Sea salt has been known for centuries. Aristotle, Queen of Sheba, King Solomon and Cleopatra were all familiar with the medicinal value of the Dead Sea. Roman nobles imported Dead Sea water and salt to Italy. The benefits of the Dead Sea were of such economic and medicinal value that wars were fought for their possession, as when Mark Anthony conquered the Dead Sea for Cleopatra.

The lowest point on earth at 394 meters below sea level, the Dead Sea is unique in Sun radiation and climatic conditions with high oxygen. As intense solar radiation causes larg amounts of water to evaporate, it's replaced with mineral-rich water from the Jordan River . Since salts dissolved in the water are left behind during evaporation, the Dead Sea has an extremely high salt concentration. Indeed, Dead Sea salt comprises a concentration of 29% compared to only 4% in the oceans. Dead Sea mineral composition is unique and free from all types of pollution. Much of the therapeutic benefits from the Dead Sea come from the high concentration not only of chloride salts, but from magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, bromine and many others, all available in our Dead Sea products. Mineral care is vital to skin health and all these minerals are vital to skin cell synthesis.

Dr. Ernest Braun's life can be described as a series of miracles as well. During World War II, he barely escaped occupied Vienna and made his way to Rome where the Catholic cardinal protected him for two years. Because of his thorough formal education in the Naitra Yeshiva and vast knowledge of texts and Jewish Heritage, he became a translator in the Vatican Library. There, he researched ancient therapeutic properties of the Dead Sea Minerals for psoriatic sufferers as reported in ancient Jewish manuscripts.

After the 2nd World War, Dr. Braun emigrated to the US. His interest in his research grew as psoriasis sufferers flocked to the mineral rich waters of the Dead Sea for relief. He knew a Dead Sea product waiting to be created that would be of service to humanity. He began to create what he named Dead Sea Derivatives (DSD), the first therapeutic lotion made from the Dead Sea. To this day, no other product or bath salts have fully captured the benefits of the Dead Sea as DSD has.

His discovery was soon rewarded in the scientific community when the positive results of a three-month study on psoriasis sufferers in Haifa were reported in CUTIS, the American Dermatology Journal. The Science. The principal articulated in the journal was that minerals in human skin deplete with age and climate induced changes, causing dry skin, wrinkles and other imperfections. Through years of research, DSD and Dead Sea beauty products have been uniquely formulated to allow for the highest concentration of minerals to be absorbed by osmosis. The skin is thus rejuvenated and relieved.