Thanks for the reply. So, are you saying that I should buy the least expensive kind and mix it with distilled water and soak my feet in it? How much nigari should I add per each cup of water. Do you know why there would be one brand that is much more expensive? Do you think that one is better taken internally, or would still be better externally? I live on a US military base in Japan. I have a few friends who are Japanese (married to Americans). I can have them read things for me, but they are not very health-concious and so when I ask them about healthy Japanese things (like de ...
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I saw this post this morning and, since I had to go to the grocery store today anyway, I went to the salt aisle to look at the nigari. They had three different kinds as far as I could tell. They were all liquid, which surprized me, because for some reason I expected it to look like salt. One bottle was 100ml and cost 238yen (about $2), one bottle was 100ml and cost 525yen (about $5) and one bottle was 450ml and cost 725yen (about $7). I bought the little bottle that cost 525yen (I assume that it is better quality since it cost twice as much as the others). The brand is JapanSalt, it s ...
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