At The Salt Experience, clients are treated to physical, mental and retail salt therapy
By Patricia Nugent
Open in June 2018, Strongsville’s The Salt Experience is part detox therapy, part gourmet shopping experience and part soothing spa oasis. As co-owner Jessica Maloney puts it: “We are all things salt.”
As a sufferer of extreme seasonal allergies that often led to ER trips and misery, a few years ago Jessica began to research natural remedies for her condition. The benefits of halotherapy, or salt therapy, kept appearing in her search, so she decided to try it.
“I felt so much better after a session in a salt cave in Youngstown,” she says. “I was breathing better and had more energy.”
So profound was her experience, she decided to take a departure from her day job in the credit industry and fulfill a dream to build a salt spa here.
A Soothing Adventure Awaits
Along with her fiancé and co-owner Alexander Fazli, she found the perfect 2,000-square-foot space, gutted it and built treatment rooms, and started importing huge blocks of salt.
Within The Salt Experience, there is a foot detox lounge, where people can enjoy a foot salt bath, a large, beach-themed group room for up to 10 people, two private rooms for two to three people with glowing walls of salt and soothing music, and an individual HaloBooth for one person. Sessions range from 30 minutes in the detox room, to 45 minutes in the treatment rooms, to 15 minutes in the HaloBooth room.
The spaces offer comfy lounge chairs for people to relax and breathe in the pharmaceutical-grade Himalayan salt, which is wafted into the room via a machine called a halogenerator. Or they can hang out on cozy floor cushions, or even lounge directly in the salt on the floor.
“We only use pink Himalayan salt, which is known to be the most nutrient-dense, containing about 84 beneficial trace minerals such as potassium and magnesium,” says Jessica. “I feel it purifies the air and when breathed in assists in detoxifying the body.”
Health concerns that salt therapy has shown to have a positive effect on include: allergies, asthma, sinus infections, bronchitis, colds and flu; skin conditions such as eczema, acne, psoriasis; and emotional conditions such as stress and depression.
A Little Retail Therapy
Everything from beautiful sculptured salt lamps to several lines of bath salts, bath bombs, salt cooking bricks, bowls, edible flavored table salts, essential oil-infused salt and even salt-infused lip gloss are available within the retail area.
“I wanted to create a shopping experience that offered upscale products from around the world,” she says.
“People can take the healing, therapeutic benefits of salt home with them. We offer ways for people to revitalize themselves in the kitchen, bath, home or office.”
Jessica set up a tasting area in the spa lobby for folks to sample some of the salts. I tried the Vintage Merlot flavored salt on a tiny square of dark chocolate and it was heavenly. I also tested the Tangerine Sage and Grapefruit Eucalyptus essential oil mineral blends and couldn’t decide which I should buy. They were both out of this world.
Looking to the future, she plans to debut Salty Yoga classes sometime this month, as well as massage and reiki later this summer. Check out the Facebook page for details.
The Salt Experience is located at the corner of Route 82 and 13500 Pearl Road in the Crossroads Market Plaza in Strongsville. Halotherapy sessions can be purchased individually, or via a variety of monthly packages. For more information, call 440-271-1199 or visit TheSaltExp.com.