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- Himalayan salt doesn't come from the Himalayas. It's mined deep inside the mountains of Pakistan at the Khewra Salt Mine. The pink rocks are turned into table salt, lamps, and statues, sold at a premium in Western countries. But despite pink salt's growing popularity abroad, Pakistan, historically, has seen little of the profits.
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I thought it was hilarious when he said it goes through a quality check and its three dudes staring at the rock lol
Ahh you got me man 😂
Time stamp?
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@Alexis Martel thank you :D
IM BAWLING 😂
When I buy pink Himalayan salt from the store:
Front label: Himalayan salt. Millions of years old
Back of label: Expires 06/2021
Me: Wow, you must have found it just in time...
Rofl
Omg this made my day 😂😂
Haha!
Lmao
Its the container that expires not the salt.
Interesting Fact: scientific studies have shown that sleeping in a room that has a Himalayan Salt lamp, has the same heath benefits as sleeping in a room that dose not have a Himalayan Salt lamp.
and also in 60 seconds in Pakistan himalayan salt mine a minute passes
@@saydulloxon agreed
It's purely aesthetic. Placebo effect
Thank you for your wisdom, Eric
😂😂😂
"The weight of 157 elephants"
America will use anything but the metric system.
😂😂
1,000 tonnes
The standard units are built around human things, 100f is a hot hot day, 0f is as cold as you’d still go outside. Metric is built around water and abstract things, 100 water boils, 0 it freezes… why would a system that removes the human factor be better? I live in Canada, I use both systems, it’s way easier to estimate in standard and then convert to metric… metric is silly in that it’s inhuman. 3, 6,9,12,60, 144 are much more human numbers then 10,100,1000.
@@tiov3001 yap
@@tiov3001I was watching on my TV and had to switch to my phone just to point out how dumb this comment is 😂
Especially 0°F, who says that -17°C is as cold as you'd still go outside. Some might say anything past -5°C (23F) is bad. Some might say -30 (-22F) is.
The Metric system is just more superior in every way. It translates perfectly to mass and volume.
"Oh those are some thicc meat chunks"
*sees title*
"Oh salt..."
*Pink salt is everywhere* in salt grinders, craggy-looking lamps, sunset-hued slabs designed for cooking steak and even in “salt rooms” at spas. But is pink Himalayan salt worth all the attention? We checked out the science behind this recent health phenomenon.
The thing:
Pink Himalayan salt is made from rock crystals of salt that have been mined from areas close to the Himalayas, often in Pakistan. It gets its rosy hue from trace minerals in the salt, like magnesium, potassium and calcium. Pink salt is often found as smaller crystals in salt grinders, as large, glowing pink or orange chunks in pink salt lamps and in the walls of “salt chambers” at spas that promise an instant detox.
The hype:
People claim the salt does all kinds of things. It’s rumored to be healthier for its greater concentration of trace elements. In lamp form, companies claim that it eases symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), increases energy and improves sleep by cleansing the air from pollutants like dust and pollen. It supposedly does this by absorbing water molecules from the air and releasing negative air ions, which are said to get rid of particles like dust that can cause respiratory problems, like allergies and asthma, and affect mood. Spas have also jumped on these claims to offer pink salt-based therapies, where people sit in rooms and breathe deeply while tiny particles of salt are dispersed into the surrounding areas, ostensibly easing respiratory conditions.
“Marketers tout their supposed ability to release negative ions that may enhance physical and emotional health,” says Dr. Andy Weil, the founder and program director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. This is based on the idea that air near moving water contains high levels of negative ions, which some researchers have suggested is one reason why spending time in nature has been linked to health benefits. Whether a man-made product can produce the same effect, however, is more dubious.
The research:
Some data suggests that blasts of positive ions-like those from electronics or hot air- may impair mood and physical health by increasing feelings of stress and anxiety, and some studies show that negative ions in the air may do the opposite and improve people’s mood. But this is not a definitive claim-and pink salt lamps have not been shown in studies to generate negative ions, anyway. “There is no scientific support for such claims related to salt lamps,” says Weil.
Even air purifiers that do generate negative air ions-so-called “ionizers”-are typically too small to be effective, and experts don’t recommend them. The salt lamps may also come with a major unrelated downside. In January, 80,000 pink salt lamps were recalled after it was discovered that they could shock people and catch fire.
As for the edible salt, some argue that it tastes better than the regular white variety when used in cooking, and that may well be true for some people. “All salts vary somewhat with respect to trace mineral content and texture,” says Weil. Proponents claim that pink salt has more minerals than typical salt-but you aren’t likely to get any extra health perks from eating it, Weil says. Pink salt is nutritionally very similar to regular salt. It’s just prettier and more expensive.
Salt therapies at spas are also not yet backed by solid evidence. “Salt therapy has been used and debated for centuries in medical practice, but it’s been more recently used as a complementary or alternative medicine practice,”
says Dr. Lily Pien, an allergist at Cleveland Clinic. “At this time, it has not been definitely studied, and the true benefits are not well known.” One possible benefit of the therapy may not come from the salt at all, she says. Giving yourself 30-45 minutes of quiet time is a known stress reliever.
The bottom line: If you want to add a pinch of pink salt to your food, go ahead, but you probably won’t reap any special health benefits. There’s even less evidence for basking in the glow of a pink salt lamp or indulging in a salt-based spa treatment. The most you’ll get out of this rock is eye candy, says Weil. “Some feel it offers decorative value,” he says, but don’t expect much else.
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I thought these are pink stones
@@admin.326 I'm happy for you that was probably copy pasted, because no one read that shit🤣🤣🤣
@@admin.326 damn, that's sum long reply
@@admin.326 did we ask
"Mom, we're out of salt!"
"Don't worry, just grab the lamp in the living room."
Those lamps are coated with a toxic gel
@@OscarMaris r/woooosh
Wahaha
Mom looks like this isn't Himalayan salt, looks like it's underarms
@@XariksBeatbox imagine linking subreddits outside of reddit
I mean if it was called Pakistani Salt you'd just scare away all of the Americans
@@ramkumarsuresh and there will some one will brings religion into comments what a twats
Americans have the choice to not to buy it and for your "insight" not all Americans get scared from Pakistan some are actually smart
@@jinan_hwasal Why ??
Isn't anything not Halal consumed by the "religious" people ?
@@ramkumarsuresh That would be lsrael
😂😂😂😂
Around 60 years ago I was 7 years old and our class went on a field trip to a salt mine in New Jersey. You could literally taste the salt in the air as you walked around inside the mine. At the end of the tour we were taken to a pile of salt rocks of all sizes and told to take as much as we wanted. I chose two large rocks to carry under each arm and took them home. Mom appeased me by chipping off a little each meal for me to use on my dinner. After a few weeks the new wore off and I forgot about the salt. Later mom used the salt rocks for interesting door stops.
Sik story
Around 60 years ago, but you remember you were 7 at the time, do you not know how old you are?
@@kovaci0000007 Well, 60+7= 67 when I was in school. And yes I remember exactly where I was and how old I was, because that's the year my mom died. You don't forget things like that!
@@kovaci0000007 wtf?
Wholesome story 🙂
“But we get paid well and on time.”
Lmao. He is reading from a script.
The minimum wage in Pakistan is $4/day and they make $10. Its good for them.
@@videosbuzzshorts2414 the ibfo is wrong its not 4$ per day
@@tablet2331 your English is wrong
Just came to the comments to see if anyone caught on to that, lol.
@@tablet2331 I live in pak it is 3-4 dollars a day = to 640 pak rs
2:24 can we just appreciate a driver of that tractor ? I've never seen anyone putting so much love and beauty in this type of machine. It looks amazing !
I always HATE the "why is nobody taking about" kinda comments... But you were so right on this one. It was beautiful
@OverSidetracking well ty... I am cool. U be well also
Looking like it came from Willy wonkas chocolate factory 😂
@Taznaz Z Its in India too.
well thats one of the beauties in pakistan! most of the trucks and vehicles besides everyday cars are decorated beautifully!
Boss: *raises whip*
Worker: "we get paid well and on time"
Boss: *lowers whip*
Lol exactly my thoughts i mean just look at his face he looks so scared
I came to the comments just to talk about this
Everyone made fun of him after he said that 😂 probably called him a kiss ass
Atleast they are doing physical work 😂 not sitting on Fat bum and scratching stinky ass and been keyboard warrior 😂😂
I was thinking the same thing the way he said it and was looking at the camera
Just came to mention how fanciful their hauling truck was decorated❣
Miner (in monotone voice): we get paid well and on time
me: that sounds sketchy af
yeah it sounded so sad
Looks like someone was holding a gun behind camera
Ya, he got a 2 dollar bonus for that one. The slaves work on floor 11.
@@TS-vr9of please… help me
a terrible enticement on "as good as it gets" in india/pakistan
Oooh, the weight of a 157 elephants? Now I understand, it's so clear to me now!
😊
I wish they would do it in a more recognisable unit such as camels.
Everything is weighed in Elephants in modern times, before that it was goats, 1 elephant = 67 goats, simple lol
aaahhh indian or african elephants ?
@@MrLince-hr4of Indian, mind u , u have to be careful that one isn't pretending to be another , then its a whole new thing, lol
american: 1k tons?
american: ah 157 elephant,understood.
THANK GOD you told us allhpw much it is
F*k SI units. We have elephants and inches
lmao
@@electech703 and cheeseburger of course
lol. all of our mother in laws weigh 157 elephants. it's true!
Such fond memories visiting my grandparents each summer. Pink salt mines were a 30 minute drive, some seriously beautiful valleys not to far this same place.
I hope one day, I will be able to see Pakistan implementing labor safety laws.
@Chill Science to be honest, wearing dust masks is far better than not wearing any protection at all. In third world country, tradional miners only using flip flops and shorts.
The dust protection and the explosions were pretty shoddy
In the world not just Pakistan
@Chill Science they dont even have proper dust masks... They wear thin medical masks which are not suited for this kind of dust.
Leave them alone.
Here in Pakistan Himalayan salt cost less then sea salt 😂
Same here in the USA
@@potatosmith1100 no?
@@potatosmith1100 for real? I thought it was expensive?? I watched the video about Himalayan Salt in Insider channel
Here in LA at least Himalayan salt is like 60% more expensive than sea salt.
Than*
Yes weigh salt in elephants when you have a perfect metric system sitting around.
1million kg
Metric measurement systems: exist
Murica: Hold my bald eagle, Budweiser and hamburger
That was because it is easy to talk about elephant's weight in terms of Himalayan salts next time
Pawkistawn. Am I the only one annoyed how she pronounces "Pakistan"?
When dealing with any weight I always convert it back to elephants. It's especially useful when cooking...0.00067 elephants of flour, 0.0001 elephants of baking soda etc
With length it's always Eiffel Towers.
I have about 20 of the salt lamps. All purchased at thrift stores for around $5. They are best if you replace the clear bulb with a coloured Christmas bulb….different colours. Really neat effect.
Legends say that is doesn't add any added benefit to ur sleep
doesn't the salt residue they leave get annoying though?
we know its just cool@@BLITZ-uq3ky
Listen to have so many lambs has it had an effect on your health?
I bet red is the best.
"we get paid well and on time.
Also, my family is happy and unharmed."
Shut up they are fine
it think they said it because it's very rare in pakistan
@@golutiwari1458 and you are a citizen of Pakistan or India?
@Tiktok is equal to cancer maybe indian read their name tho
Edit:
@golu tiwari I don’t know 🤷♂️
@Experienced old man 👴 thanks for pointing me out. Its strange how I got 6.5 bands in IELTS test (of course ) 🤡
@@keepsmiling9882 did I said anything wrong
horse: **sees rock**
horse: **licc**
horse: This rock tastes weird.
@Hue G. Rection really man?
@@eduardogalindo4957 dont mind him, they're just trollin
Then horse informed to king
ha ha ha
No look up salt licks. Blocks of salt made for horses and other farm animals
The train is neat
Shut it
#train NEEEEAAAAATT!!!
I know right, a disneyland ride right before intense labor and potential death :)
It is
I have actually sat on the train
I had a lamp from Amazon that was on 99.6% of hours for 6 years somewhere around 50% brightness. The LED array finally died. I think it was $25. Not a bad deal if you ask me, but I couldn't fix it myself.
It's just a comfort thing. The warm glow is cozy .
I agree, even if there's no physical benefit, it brings the room +8beauty and impressiveness. this increases my mood outlet by at least 7% therefore making me more productive at home
@@fabianbandaiii3304 for me it's 11.11 (repeating of course) percent increase in mood
You don't want the LED lights unwanted the small glass lamp bulb that Inserts as it heats inside slowly ionizing the salt that dissipates into the air.
yeah the glow is a really soothing light level. great for if you need light but have a migraine
“We get paid well and on time” he looks like he was forced to say that
They get 10 dollars per day and in Pakistan average wage is 4 dollars so it's good
😂😂
Probably not. Probably true.
Just off camera was a soldier pointing an AK47 at him .
$10 dollars for 12 to 14 hour hard labor days is slavery which is still the antiquated way of the world.
You know damn well he was manipulated into saying “we get paid well, and on time” 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️😂😂
I used to work in a fast food and we dint get paid well or on time .
@@omarnoyola497 How is that random information contributing to what Josh said?
@@coybi I guess they’re saying that if they weren’t getting treated properly just imagine what the people in this video get treated like.
Lol😂😂😂
It's difficult to find labour, doesn't surprise me if they arepaid well. Pakistanis workers are proud workers which is a big problem for employers.
My three salt lamps give off a beautiful soft ambient glow : 1 white, 2 pinks & a pink night light. Interesting to see where they were mined.
Karen. Lol
can confirm, is pretty.
@@phytoplank still trying to steal the Crabby Patty fomula?
I do see one benefit over sea salt, no micro plastics.
LOL
@Dori Tos Might be less harmful.
pink salt is petrified muscle and flesh.
100%, I swear.
The pink colouring in himalayan salt, is actually caused by impurites. It is not healthier for you. It is about on par with regular salt.
@@toffeecrisp2146 the white parts of the salt are petrified body fat. So the coloured parts contain way more blood cells etc. (Petrified flesh)
I understand eating it, i don't understand having lamps and roof tiles made of salt
Probably because it's pretty.
They are said to purify the atmosphere by the ions they release into the air. Ans they are pretty.
@@bluewaters2231 any science behind that?
@@GreatSageSunWukong Salt has always been a purifier from ancient times in all indigenous cultures; for more scientific information u could google. This Himalayan salt is defi more healthy than the iodised and chemically treated salt available now in supermarkets. Of that i am sure. Any health practitioner will advocate it. And it is more expensive. The lamps do look pretty when lite. Sun Wukong, scroll down to a comment by Ahmad Raza. He has explained in more depth than I have.
Veritasium already did a vid debunking this ruclips.net/video/ZQ--scjcAZ4/видео.html
I got to visit the Khewra mines this year. The drive from there to Lahore is brutal, with bad and dangerous mountain roads. It's crazy how they move all of this
There are no mountains on the way from Khewora to Lahore, but after a 20 km plain journey from Khewora, the motorway to Lahore starts and the journey is relaxing.
What reallly? Why didnt u take the motorway??
"We get paid well "
*And on time
I feel ya bro
So why do they call it “Himalayan”? You just glossed over that hahah
Himalaya range is a mountainous range which is expanded to multiple countries. It starts from Pakistan, and ends at Myanmar. This area is right near Himalaya range of Pakistan. Look at this image.
www.researchgate.net/publication/328790994/figure/fig1/AS:690384598470657@1541611923157/Spatial-spread-of-the-Himalayan-mountain-system-across-seven-nations-The-elevational.png
Bcz this salt comes from the lower himalayas
@@stangerdanger7252 Himalayan is related to India....pakistan has occupied India's lands
@@pankajsy8581 not really as far as i know
@@pankajsy8581 India means Land of Indus river. First of all get your facts right. This is Indus river.
i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/43/52/f04352a9f2e1067395eab1d8ed6aa62e.jpg
Hamalyia starts from Pakistan. The people of Gilgit baltistan fought against the raja and became Part of Pakistan. Second, people of gilgit are more close to Pakistani then Indian people Just look at a picture of those people ,and then look at yourself. Too big of difference.
I would not be able to resist the urge to lick a rock.
I love that salt lol.
Who doesn't lol
I've been to the mine and yes you can buy salt crystals to lick lol.
They literally have a licking wall in there where tourists can lick and make a wish
@@junaidbutt8279 hello covid
@@killerxyphon and possibly a bunch of other stuff 😄
But salt is a strong food preservative, so it might be reasonably safe actually
*Pakistan should have technology to process it and should export directly to Europe* ✅
@Robert Hamilton look at your low mentality even lower than a boot. Shame on you.
@Robert HamiltonDo you really think this.?
@Robert Hamilton Where are you from??
And who told you this?😂
Indian traders marketed it to to Europe, which made it so valuable. Same with African diamonds.
@Robert Hamilton Lindu Gobarbhakt💩 Spotted 😛😂🤭😁
Thank you miners and truck drivers for all of your hard work to provide that salt for us. Again thank you!
What about the ocean and earth
@@elliotjohnson9737 bro how the ocean/earth gonna understand him?
@@elliotjohnson9737 lol
@@elliotjohnson9737 Byron buxton 2022 American League mvp. I’m calling it
well the miners and truck drivers barely make any money even though they do all the hard work and labor while the company owners take all the profit
5:06 I love the way the worker is wearing hygienic disposable gloves when handling the rocks meant for table salt, while his partner walks over them in his shoes.
Thats why come countries just dont improve
I believe that cleanliness and hygiene in India is not a priority...
Camera 📷 is motivational factor lol
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that.
it doesn't make sense wtf 😂
Thanks I always wanted to know how heavy 157 elephants are
Important to note that they based this stat off African elephants, not Indian elephants.
Haha, good one.
But americans doesn't know how much 1000 tons are
@@Juipukka they do, it’s around 2,000,000 LBS or 900k KG. They don’t know how much a tonne is tho.
@@Juipukka assumptions much
Salt formed in hundreds of million years without being spoiled, but if you buy it it does have an one year expiration date because the package falls apart in that time.
Typical human madness 😁
Salt being exposed to humidity can cause issues. Also, exposure to any UV light can lead to chemical breakdowns. UV light and high humidity aren't issues in underground caves.
So long as you store it well though, it should last longer than you'll be alive.
Horse: **lick**
Alexander: "Oh, My, God."
Hits different without the context of this video
Horse: *licks rock*
People: *mining intensifies*
Yep pretty much a lightbulb scene
😆😆😆
Alexander and his horse's story tells us that how history is manipulated through anecdotes.
Can you believe that before Alexander's arrival, no one was using this salt?
True bro, these western historians changed India's history, to show British people as great, we bharatiya knows the benefits of Himalayan salt, and the name Himalaya is ours language
@@reta5189
>Alexander
>Western
@@reta5189
Himalayan salt is Pakistani
Not Indian bro
No one is claiming Alexander's campaign discovered salt but it discovered this mining region full of this particular salt.
@@organicfarm5524
Exactly right
Its quite sad to me how clean and bright the workers safety helmets are. I think it shows how infrequently they’re actually worn and likely were only used because of the cameras being around. I can only imagine what its like to be a worker there as i would guess they have very little workers rights.
dalm you're smart
"We get paid well and on-time." Hmm... that's not a suspicious way of wording it...
Given that they're not wearing proper protective gear makes it more sus
off camera, there was his boss holding a gun pointed at his head. he blinked twice
It’s actually not suspicious, but it feels like that in its English translation.
Relative to other people in Pakistan, $10/day is a lot. The average wage is $4/day to give you a perspective. Moreover, the cost of living in Pakistan to lets say Canada is far lower.
They get 10 dollars per day and that's good for Pakistan
It’s so surreal to hear so many English words scattered throughout the Pakistani language
ruclips.net/video/xD-qn2lD9Dc/видео.html
In most of India Pakistan and Bangladesh, it's not uncommon to hear people use english words that are easier to say than their vernacular counterparts. It's also really common for someone to start a sentence in hindi and then end it in English or vice versa(because a large portion of people speak English)
Nice profile picture
@@reisonencarnacion5214 How is is relevant at all? Why is this here? I am so confused. I am in utter disbelief at how not relevant is video is to anything closely related to this video or even the comment. This video is about Pakistani salt mining. Your video that you linked is about plastic bottle fishing and I think it's in Spanish. Furthermore, the comment that you replied to was about how English is prominent through the Pakistani language. This video is the furthest away you could get and you still linked it. To reiterate my shock, this video is in no way relevant to the conversation. I will go to bed tonight wondering if the entire world has formed some odd connection that I have not. I am puzzled.
India was ruled by the English for 200 years. Pakistani was part of India until 1947. Not that astonishing tbh.
Pakistan is definitely one of the most beautiful countries I have visited.🔥🇵🇰 🇨🇦
Himalayan salt indeed came from Himalayas. A mountain range that stretches across from Pakistan to China.
It is fascinating to know that the salt formed hundreds of millions years before the first multicellular organisms.
And we're putting it in our kitchen counter tops with a light bulb shoved up it, or grinding it up to put it on food.
@@MizuSky And state on the box that it will expire in 1 year
@@HAWXLEADER 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't understand what you mean. The oldest multicellular fossils in Newfoundland are about the same age as the salt. (And there are much older recent findings in Gabon.)
The Bible would disagree with your statement….
But how much can you trust a book based on the stories of drugged out men who spoke with serpents
The truck is the most hardworking. Mining during the day, Weddings and parties in the evenings.
Lol😂👍
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I just love this video, I use pink salt in my cooking and coffee and I have a pink salt lamp. Bless you all for all the hard work and pride that you have for mining the pink salt. 💗
These people work in difficult if not dangerous conditions and, as the video noted, get paid very little. Enjoy your salt at their expense!
In your coffee?
@@theoneandonly4577 i put the salt on my oranges
Looks like a pile of frozen meat
petrified meat....
Yes absolutely 😜
@@lialaliala2968 the cats look ugly
@@kiwin9488 they look better than ur face
@@theemo874 that I agree with
Me: but is it sustainable?
8:15
Me: Ah, never mind
You got me there🤣
I want to know what happen when there is no more.
@@Bombichote1 use the lamps...
It's not that good for environment but same, never mind
I would say of the stated 6.+ billion tons left to mine, we will have enough for a few generations. 1 metric ton for each of the human race.
I had a salt candle holder. My dog kept licking it everyday. I had to hide it because she loved it so much
She loved it because she's lacking some ingredients in her diet keep her doing that in forest wild dogs also do that if they find a small rock of salt or slightly burned tree part which is full nutrients
@@aditya5463 she has a salt lick in the backyard that she shares with the livestock. She can’t have my candle though lol.
She gets top of the line kibble, mixed with raw meats and veggies. She gets organ meat mixtures from the local butcher too. She just wouldn’t leave my candle alone
Understood Allysa the noodle 🍜 🤗
@@alyssa_the_noodle5228 i Dont think too much salt is good for dogs, or you really
So even after banning raw salt export to India who "stole Pakistani profits"... workers don't see change in their wages. Seems just like a change of cartels...no benefit to the miners
You got the worker bees then you have the robber barons above them taking the profits!
Capitalism FTW!
I think my salt lamp is from here, mine has the same wood bottom piece as some of the ones I saw. I didn’t get it for the health benefits, I got it because the pink salt is so pretty. I appreciate the work from these guys. 👏
I use it in all my cooking. Feel bad for these guys. Even the phone I type this message on, had it's raw materials mined by people struggling in poverty
@@MrRedeyedJedi Way too many things are made from people that are exploited. It’s terrible but it’s like we can never escape it. I think about this a lot, someone out there put my phone together piece by piece to perfection and they work endless hours but get paid crumbs. These people deserve more. :(
@@april_ I agree but I'm as much of a hypocrite as yourself, as I type on my tablet. Nothing we can do about it, its a higher level of governing that controls this
Now lick it
@@april_ most of those are done by machines.
"But we get paid well and on time" no one has ever said that unless they are being told to say that. The guy was so monotone too. These guys probably get paid like shit and very rarely on time just so Karen back at home can have her pimk romck
It says 7 dollars a day
Pakistan=Lie + Lie + Lies.
He said it like someone was holding a gun to his head slightly off camera
@@anilkommalapati6248, shut up
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am a pakistani and have visited the khewra mines and also tasted the black salt there,
we have many rocks of pin salt in our home and we first grind it and then use it.
it' very rich in taste and it doesn't make your mouth bitter and you can lick it more.it's yum.
Pakistan- we have himalayan salt
India- we have cowdung salt 🐃🤣
"Himalayan salt doesn't com from Himalayas"
"French fries doesn't come from France"
"Coconut crab doesn't depend on coconut"
"Red Indians are not from India"
My whole life is a complete lie.. 😭
😅🤣😂
Coconut crabs do eat coconuts tho
@Chris B Wait, baby powder isnt made from babies?
@@MikeOck88 😸😸🤣🤣😂😂😹😹😼😼
But Nuclear technology arrived from France in Pakistan!
Khewra mines are beautiful tourist spot. The souvenirs built out of salt are just amazing.
Then you’re just as radical and controlled as your claim about them
The Pakistani guy was basically speaking 80% English I was so confused...
@Jareer Abdullah
The Newfoundlanders were a colony of England
and sometimes I can't understand them..
Stay where you are and I'll come where you're at
Try and understand that when the Newfoundlander
is half cut and is speaking fast...
@Jareer Abdullah are you from Pakistan??
@Jareer Abdullah i want to know if you use the salt 🤔
@Jareer Abdullah i think it cure sinus problem by inhaling it. I heard miners of pink salt have low health problems.
English is the official language along with Urdu so people have atleast basic understanding of English words. Hence it is the third largest English speaking country as well.
V good information. Its not Himalyan Salt. Its Pakistani 🇵🇰 salt. 👍🏻
So the rich mine owners asks the government to pass a law that will vastly increase their profits and yet, the workers are still exploited. It's a disgrace.
that's capitalism for ya!
sounds like quite literally every big business nowadays...
you sound indian
Literally every business
@@whatthehellzgoingon what's your alternative?
“After double drill it goes through a washing process”
LMAO 1 guy with a hose washing the rocks one by one.
He explains why they do it manually.
Because of the different sizes.
@@pingpong3200 you right! just caught that 🙂
Its called manually washing 😂
Wow! That's a very decorated tractor for a mine 😅
Some of their dump trucks have fancy tunes
Thats called truck art and and as a Pakistani i can say that its a part of our culture
@@ibrahimahmed8631 I like it, I wonder if I could find someone with experience whose good at it to help me do that to suzuki samurai 4x4 in the USA.
Ibrahim Ahmed Ohh! Cool! Thanks for the info..so it's like our jeepneys 🇵🇭😊
@@love_lyzza Google truck art in Pakistan, and you will see a lot.
The healthy part of Himalayan salt is not the extra minerals, but the fact it is not polluted like regular seasalt is with microplastics and traces of heavymetals. Though the extra minerals doesnt hurt and probably is slightly beneficial.
She says "tractors haul out of the mountain" AND WHAT A FANCY TRACTOR. I LOVE IT!
All tractors and public transport (buses, taxis, rikshaws) are decorated like that in Pakistan
“Made into lamps, statues, and of course table salt” pauses video and slowly looks over to my Himalayan salt lamp...
Lmaaoooo
Lick it
Now I want a himalayan salt lamb as well lol.
I have kept a salt lamp in my stable. My horse licks it everyday...😁
@@smoizahmed lol cool
historically, miner and farmers are the ones getting the smallest portions of the profit. Pakistan banning the export simply force the businessmen to move business from India to Pakistan. The locals are still getting paid the same and they are just happy they got a job.
The wealthy businessmen will remain almost the same.
i agree the miners do a big and dangerous, labor intensive job, but it takes a lot of processing to make the salt profitable and those people need to get paid too, which would inevitably move the cost to the consumer. Which means more expensive salt lamps and table salt for western customers.
There is no such big difference. We have been using Black salt from Himachal, Tibet. They mainly contain NaCl and Complex iron compound but they are quite cheaper to these hyped up salt. Processed salt is very cheap in India. Though price has increased in recent years but still it is much less than Sugar or Jaggery.
@@kyukyahua In Pakistan, salt is alot lot cheaper. An Indian spy was caught some years ago when he offered to pay for salt somewhere...atleast thats what the story was.
for comparison, even at retail, pink salt (packaged and branded) cost the equivalent of ~INR30/kg. White salt even cheaper.
@@911mastermind That is quite cheap. But checked them out at our nearest Big Bazaar and they were asking INR 60/ 500gm. At a local grocery store, it INR 62/ 500gm or INR 65/500gm. So, that is a lot cheaper even after paying excise.
@Smeh 7 dont talk nonsense. Humans have been eating rocksalt for centuries.
Those tunnels were huge and loaded with salt. You would think they would have more advance technology to get the salt the old ancient way the used in the beginning. Was interesting to watch. Great video
It is normal. If the work force is really cheap it isn't worth getting expensive machines...
Well this is Pakistan not America and it's been working for them and in return the workers have a job whereas if they had high tech advanced machines then less man labour would be needed hence unemployment will rise.
"Just to be safe, we wait for half an hour before going in"
Sure, of course you do ;)
Yes, they do wait, that's there break time but more important the dust has to settle, it's done at certain times of day.
@@savannah505 You missed the joke.... 😜
Dude just stop😂
Lmaoo
Yes they do, because if the didn’t, the salt structures integral parts would fail, then they would discolor of the color
Farmers should decorate their tractors like that.
Health and Safety in for example the UK would probably not allow it
In Pakistan People love to do that's Decorating Tractors abd buses
Lesson here is never take anything for granted instead thank the people who put hours in their day to help make our every day use
Don't you mean "take it for granite" ?
Thank you to all the workers who excavate this salt. God bless ❤
Alexzander’s Horse discovered the Salt...😂
😂
Now we’re being fooled by “Himalayan” branding
Basically you just know by this that it’s pink stone salt. All that matters anyway.
I mean the himalayas are in Pakistan they start from the capital city
@@michaelloedel750 Well it's the same geological element that made the hills of Potohar from past into modern Himalayas. Look at map.
These hills will one day become Himalayas as well.
It's just the salt from the actual Himalayas has been eroded away over eons by rain etc.
your name say's it all
@Truth Teller haha, you don't get what I said bro, you can see such brand like Sherpa pink, saltworks, himalania, they using icy himalayan mountain picture, that's make people believe it's from snowy place of Himalayan mountains. Better shut up before being offensive to others comment! You should learn more
8:00 The pawri accent tho
🤣🤣🤣
🤭
Yes... you found that accent
😂 mera nhi khayal lol
@@rashidaquil5284 bro who is patwari?
I did't know the salt lamps are literally the same as the table salt... I guess I will start grinding up my salt lamp...
I did. But they're hard to break up.
"Himalayan Salt doesn't actually come from the Himalayas"
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just like HOT DOGS are not made by dogs and baby oil is not made by babies ... so HIMALIYAN salt is originally "Khewra Salt"
ebic khelal boment 7mari
Northern Pakistan all mountains are Himalayas........
Khewra salt mines are in foothills of himalaya near 9th highest mountain in the world nanga parbat (Pakistan) which is part of western himalaya go search on google u will find it
@@arshaddilmuhammad2188 khewra salt mine is in punjab not in North pakistan
Great effort and lots of labour work involved....Thanks to all these people
for their hard work in salt mine to provide pink salt to the world...🙏🙏
Its just salt like every other salt except a few trace minerals from dead bugs. It is completely unnecessary to ship around the world. The mining itself of a resource, fuel, emissions, waste, further industry, it's a complete environmental negative for no reason at all except look at this exotic worthless crap I can afford.
@TheAwwyee Yea you want to get all of your trace amount of minerals while you breathe the asphyxiating smog from the production of them. Did your mother have any children born with any brain activity?
@TheAwwyee The trace minerals will make ZERO difference to your health. You have been conned. Must be easy to sell you a used car.
You believe everything you hear on the internet?
Sea salt is much more healthy than table salt. If you travel to the beach for the day, you can heal more than your soul. You inhale the salt air to heal your lungs and heals wounds.
I'll stick with the sea salt.
@@nancyfahey7518 salt doesn't heal anything, if you can back up your claims with medical papers produced by doctors that would be great lol, particularly at least 20 papers.
"Himalayan salt doesn't come from the Himalayas. It's mined deep inside the mountains of Pakistan"... Actually if you look on a map, the Khewra Salt Mine is located in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains called the "Potwar Plateau, which is a broad zone of Himalayan foreland thrusting in northern Pakistan."
THank you for clarifying
What a bullshit objection. "Foothills of the Himalayan mountains"... It is not a part of Himalaya, do you understand? The Pothohar Plateau
is not part of the Himalayas. Being close to something is not the same as being part of something.
Im not giving pakastan a fk.pennt
@@christinemott2878 lol this report does more harm than good.
This is so so wrong. Are you dumb. I am from hazard region and Himalayas are no way near this area
Expiry dates on 600 million year old Himalayan Table Salt is the funniest thing ever.
fun fact: Earth's largest salt deposits are found in League of Legends ranked queue.
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It took a while
Underrated
West never misses a chance to bring Alexander the "great" in the conversation.
Greece was Alexander s land and he wasn't Christian even of today's west ... But these reporters from USA and UK why interested in their east leaders ..
What's with the quotes? He was great, irrespective of where he was from. The mines were discovered because of him, so what's your problem if he's mentioned?
Stay salty.
Wasn’t it Alexander the “gay” bcuz of his boy lover
@@parmmohan4603 Firstly, please realise that 'gay' is not an insult, it's perfectly normal to be gay, and secondly, he was not gay, that is a theory concocted by woke historians today.
That nutritionist came out of nowhere.
She just finished telling young children that there is no Santa either.
Don’t they always?
In 30 years that entire mountain will be gone. I guess "soon" is relative but I think a 6.7 billion ton mountain of salt disappearing in 30 years seems kinda soon to me.
Imagine you didn't know you had a few fresh cuts on your fingers
It's all good marrys the explosive s residues
2:14 “when he said we get paid well and on time” bet they told him to say that.
They are happy as long as they are getting food for their families. They don't really care how world thinks of them.
@@namaloompakistani1768 that you can feed your family doesn't mean you're getting paid enough. It's not about what the world thinks of them, it's about having a decent life
@@namaloompakistani1768 im just saying the way he said it sounded like forced to say. Like if they are going to interview me you think im just going to say. o yeah I know you didn’t asked me but i get paid and on time. Shit I better get paid on time if im risking my life
@@TheFerminramos
I am pretty sure they started by asking his name and other plenty of questions.
But the editor wanted you to see only this part
just like they told you to write this comment
Funny these guy work there asses off and don’t see no safety glasses, proper lifting procedures. Just good ol plain jane work
They even feel ashamed using safety guards
When labor is cheap, protective accessories don't make sense. I bet the workers are too uneducated to even have unions. It's a 19th century London matchstick factory basically.
U make it sound like they are tough for doing that, when in reality they are being very dumb and risking their body and health. They definitely should have safety protection equipment
It's Pakistan dude, you go to the mine with helmets, safety harness and goggles for protection and you might get killed by a bomb blast on the way to work. 😂💣
@@INRSuperChat Indian IT cell trolls barking again
My doctor yelled at me today for watching this video because he said I'm getting to much salt
*horse takes lick*
Alexander: "my god Lucky, what have you discovered!?"
and he licked it too?
My horses love the salt stones. One of them won't stop licking it, given a new one. I just imagine the horse of Alexander going totally crazy, licking the ground like a maniac 🤣
Not Lucky, Bucefal isn’t it?
so the indigenous indians who have been using it as ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years didnt discover it but a white man alexander the great did. what the world has come to lmao.
Wow what a beautiful tractor 2:27
Decorating trucks*
It popular in Pakistan India Bangladesh and Sri Lanka I believe it’s tradition
@@nikhiljoshi8767 It's not done in Sri Lanka, it's a tradition practiced in certain northern areas of South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
In Pakistan people decorate their tractors busses and trucks
@@nikhiljoshi8767 in India Bangladesh and sirilanka I don't see it. This art is typical Pakistan
THIS IS HARD WORK
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Inhaling it does work. I use my salt inhaler whenever I get congested or a cough and it clears my sinuses.
Few thousand years back:
Ayurveda:use sendha(pink salt)
Bbc:some horse found this
And some british ramp up production
Seriously????
What people stuff.
i am from this area.our legend is alexander's horse discovered it
@@factualdilemmas2666 thousands year before Alexander was born
People are using sendha namak in whole bharat
@@meditationsilence7378 people would have used this but there never was any bharat nor ever there will be.
@@factualdilemmas2666 in span of thousands of years what does few thousand year stand nothing
Ram setu is few lakhs years old have idea how old aryavart is
Not from the Himalayas? - Ok, forget it it's back to Morton's salt for me...
Morton salt come from Kansan...also from dried ancient oceans.
Look up Redman Real Salt
Morton salt is washed in cyanide solution for cleaning. That's why you have salt related diseases because the cyanide doesn't expel out of your body but stores in fat tissue. After years of accumulating it starts to have adverse reactions in your body, they don't tell doctors this because it's money time with prescriptions for "salt related diseases", when it's actually cyanide poisoning. If you look at the back of a salt container and it says 0 nutrients, it was washed with cyanide, it's a red flag. All salt has minerals in it, so if none is there it's been stripped. Cyanide is a great cleaning agent and very cheap, that's why it's used as a cleaner, but they don't wash out all the cyanide, small amounts are left in the salt.
@@savannah505 No... that isn’t true. It has no minerals because it is superheated and processed at 1000s of degrees. You’re confusing the addition of Iron Cyanide as an anti caking agent.... which has been stopped. It’s now Calcium silicate. But most pink Himalayan salts have anti caking agents (like ferrocyanide) and you can get a processed white salt with no anti caking agent... so you’re tripping, hahaha.
It’s equal ends to equal ends... and the minerals in pink salt are sort of worthless. You get like 1% of your micronutrients for every 33% of your sodium (~800mg) By the time you hit your Calcium numbers you will be dying from sodium toxicity, let alone cyanide 🤣🤣🤣
Use to to
"...and potassium. HOWEVER!!!!!!😳😵" Scared the crap out of me!! 😂6:42
So Alexander's horse was like, oh hey salt. And directly after that the British in the 1800s. Local people clearly had no clue. This is a pretty eurocentric interpretation of history.
Also remember that Columbus was the first person to discover America. Also the pyramids were built by white westerners (in the future we travel back in time and build them)
haha...I was wondering the same. Why there was a need to bring Alexander here? May be they should have mentioned he was running away after losing the battle in India.
@@nikhilkay1 Yeah he lost battle to king Pushpendra or Porus. Europe still revers him as not having lost even one war or that his army returned after defeating Porus coz they were tired. In reality he was badly wounded in the battle and returned back to save his life. He died some time after that due to illness(only happens to great warriors). 😉
Why do you need to keep looking out to get provoked? His horse was said to have discovered the mines, so what? I agree that they could have elaborated on the Sikh history of the mines, but mentioning the man because of whom the mines were supposedly discovered is not Eurocentric.
@@manavmehta2031 Alexander almost died in the first major battle against the Persians. Also idk why people are calling him Greek he was Macedonian
2:24 Well that was an unexpectedly festive looking set up to extract salt from a mine.
That’s one festive looking tractor.
That's what I said, too.
thats how many vehicles in pakistan are like just wait till you see the buses
No safety glasses for those guys. Imagine all of the shards flying around. Look how clean their hardhats are as well. Those are probably just for show
Hmmm new maybe yes for the show but been there two times .... they usually r wearing hats
They don't need any if they're just going to evacuate the mine before the blast and wait 30 minutes each time
@@ginsederp Yeah. It’s impossible that stray shards could fall on them ever.
@@mjrussell414 those would require hard hats, not safety glasses.