Introduction
One of my greatest inspirations as a Bathmaster is Stefan Kolumbuchi, who wrote the original German text. It was later filmed by someone named “Flo” on the YouTube channel “Sigreich.” I do not claim authorship of this text; I have merely transcribed and translated it to make it accessible here, as I believe it is interesting and valuable for everyone.
As always, this is a rich buffet of information—feel free to take what resonates with you and leave aside what does not. I wish you an enjoyable read.
History of Bathing
Most People Suffer from Their Illnesses
Most people suffer from their illnesses. They suffer from their pain, from weakness, overweight people suffer from the racing of their blood with the slightest exertion, they suffer from weak knees and side stitches when doing the sport prescribed by the doctor, and they also suffer from the unpleasant appearance they present—just as bald men and old people with wrinkled skin suffer from their appearance.
Why a Combination of Diet and Exercise is So Ineffective
Most improvement programs primarily focus on dietary changes. There are also detox tactics such as exercise or fasting, but these mainly burden the urinary tract and intestines. What is neglected is that it is very difficult to eliminate the existing amounts of acid. For a 50-year-old today, it is about half of the body mass, so for a man weighing 90 kilograms, that means 45 kilograms. That is 45 kilograms of waste, which you cannot simply starve or exercise away. An average 50-year-old consists of half waste substance, which is also in the bones: then bones break more easily, also in the tendons: then flexibility decreases, in the muscles: then strength declines, in the joints: then the joints hurt. The body becomes weak at this age because it lacks bases, which are replaced by potassium-acid salts, since potassium is the most common base mineral in conventionally produced foods, and by uric acid, because even moderate meat consumption introduces a lot of uric acid into the body. If the bone substance contains many of these acidic salts or free acids, the bones break more easily.
Therefore, it is not just mass the body has to lose; it must actively dissolve it from deposits and fill holes in the substance with bases. Dissolving, neutralizing, diluting, and excreting acids would probably take centuries if done only with proper alkaline nutrition, at least as long as one has lived acid-forming—in the example, 50 years. Furthermore, the excretion process requires three times the amount of pure, reactive bases that remain after digestion from base-surplus foods. Since building healthy body substance also requires surplus bases after digestion, it is assumed that for detoxification, on average, 20 milligrams of bases are available from one kilo of base-surplus food (organic fruits and vegetables). The amount of food required would be huge and leads to the conclusion that it would take centuries to completely correct dietary errors.
To excrete such an amount of acid normally, a person would need to consume about 7,000 tons of base-surplus food. At a daily food intake of 3.5 kg, this would take two million days—5,479 years. If one assumes that the body also excretes free acids by drinking 3 to 5 liters of pure water daily or through acute eliminations such as colds, the time is significantly shortened, as the body can eliminate a larger amount of acid at once.
Example:
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50-year-old person, acid content half of 90 kg = 45 kg accumulated acids
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45 kg accumulated acid
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135 kg (45 kg × 3) bases required for excretion via urine and stool
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7,000 tons of pure food necessary—theoretically 5,479 years needed for excretion through alkaline nutrition
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Practically faster through drinking and exercise: “only” 50 to 100 years
The cleansing time through a consistently alkaline diet would still be at least 50 years.
The long time it takes to see results is why diets are not maintained. Furthermore, most diets are far from alkaline-surplus, i.e., they worsen the acid balance. As a result, people feel helpless, accept their illnesses and overweight as god-given, fate, or heredity, and return to their normal diets.
All diets lack one important component: the best, fastest, and most pleasant way to eliminate acids and waste directly. When this component is integrated, one immediately notices success from day one, struggles less with adjustment symptoms, and can cleanse the body of a 50-year-old to that of a 20-year-old in about five years. The life feeling also becomes as fresh, spontaneous, and energetic as in youth. This important component is the start of rejuvenation. It is alkaline body care.
History of Body Care
For millennia, body care was alkaline (Jentschura 2000, Huber-Buschbeck 2001, Leinberger 2005). People used alkaline products to wash the body, clothes, and for skin care. Anointing with valuable oils is well known from general historical knowledge. The purer an oil, the more alkaline it is. But also for the living environment, cleaning, and washing dishes, alkaline products were used. Of all this variety, only the alkaline pH value of toothpaste remains in widely available products today, but it contains so many toxic substances that it no longer acts alkaline.
The Long Baths
Besides the purposes understandable to us today—washing, moisturizing, and cleaning—there was the bathing culture. It was the way and key to health and well-being. In all world cultures, there are references to hour-long alkaline baths described as the most effective medical treatment ever (Kaiser 2005, Leinberger 2005, Jentschura 2000). Only in some distant regions like Mexico and Japan has the bathing tradition been preserved until today (Hörnicke 1957, Leinberger 2005). The fact that this implies a world culture that must have existed 10,000 years ago is already astonishing. Even more astonishing are the effects of the baths where still described and the abilities that such strong health brings, which nobody knows anymore today.
“With water from a pure basin I have bathed,
with soda long have I cleansed myself,
with good oil I have made myself beautiful.”
(Clay tablet of the “Sumerian Incantations”, 3rd millennium BC)
Our direct ancestors were said to have had bear-like strength, were resistant to cold (Plutarch, cited by Wandmaker 1992), and lived much longer than people do today. Zeus’s wife Hera was said to have regularly traveled to a certain bath on the Argos peninsula and returned young every time (Günther, 2005).
The means of rejuvenation was the legendary Fountain of Youth—springs with alkaline water where long bathing took place. In Egypt, there were several alkaline lakes in the Wadi Al Natrum, which gave the name to Natron, the carbonate compound of sodium (sodium bicarbonate). People traveled to the alkaline water and took multi-day or multi-week bathing cures, resulting in rejuvenation. On its shores, alkaline compounds such as Natron and soda (sodium carbonate) deposited as white powder, called Trona by the Egyptians and used for alkaline baths at home. Trona was very valuable (Kaiser 2005), indicating that the Egyptians knew the importance of a high water pH for bathing.
For unexplained reasons, bathing in the Wadi Al Natrum stopped—perhaps because the water level dropped. Several times the salt lakes completely dried out in summer. Trona also fell out of use. By Cleopatra’s time, shortly before Christ, the effects of natron and soda in the Mediterranean were no longer known, forgotten. The famous beauty had to resort to baths of milk and sugar to achieve at least some alkaline effect. Early Christians knew the importance of alkaline baths. They founded 50 monasteries in the just 30 km long Wadi Al Natrum (Müller 2005). This location caused severe opposition from the Roman Empire, which repeatedly destroyed the monasteries. But step by step: Why did Christians have to fight to rediscover the common cultural heritage of alkaline baths?
The Most Famous Bath Doctor: John the Baptist
Two thousand years ago, another bather became world-famous. John the Baptist used alkaline baths for baptism. Through the physical purity of the baths, the spirit was purified as well, and the first Christians became open to Jesus’s spiritual messages. John the Baptist purified his clients with multi-week cures so well that a new consciousness arose on its own. This threatened the ruling system, which in different realms (Judaism, Egyptian Empire, Roman Empire) essentially conveyed one value system still existing today.
Bathing cures around the Mediterranean had been forgotten for centuries, likely with some help, because anyone bathing was difficult to control. Only the Greeks still bathed in alkaline water and the Romans’ strong opponents in Gaul, Central, and Eastern Europe.
Within the Roman Empire, John the Baptist renewed alkaline baths and achieved such good results that the rulers had him beheaded. His patients were no longer docile or obedient. They became rebellious and revolutionary. They were on the path to freedom, and if allowed, the empire’s ideology around the Mediterranean would have collapsed 2,000 years ago: rulers would have had no subjects. Therefore, the rulers had to ensure bathing didn’t continue in their cultural sphere, even within Christianity, which could hardly be stopped.
Distorted Images of the Baptism’s Essence
History distorted baptism into a pale gesture. It was no longer clear which water was used (namely alkaline), nor how baptism was actually performed. The church was put at the service of rulers (then the Romans), and baptism became a kind of joining ritual—just a little sprinkling with normal (roughly neutral pH) water. John the Baptist would hardly have become so famous or dangerous to rulers if he had only been a sort of administrator for a religious group with a twenty-minute admission ritual.
No, the Baptist convinced through his baptism. The result was a person thinking, feeling, and looking completely different than before. The Roman emperors distorted the church’s messages once they realized they could not defeat it. They installed superficial baptism rituals with just a handful of water in all communities. Only some newer church branches recall that the whole body should be immersed. But even these groups have not rediscovered the entire meaning of baptism: bathing duration and water quality are neglected. Bath duration and water quality, namely a pH over 8.5, were the variables that made baptism an important cleansing and healing path. The Bible does contain references to John’s technique (Markquart 2005).
The Legendary Fountain of Youth — How Europeans Bathed
While alkaline bathing was rediscovered around Jesus’s time in the Mediterranean, Europeans had never forgotten it. Bathing in certain holy springs was part of Celtic and Germanic culture, ensuring their resilience. They bathed 10 to 12 hours daily for 3 to 4 weeks or stayed in the water for 2 to 3 weeks continuously, depending on indication and bathing plan. They had floating pillows for their heads and took meals on floating trays. They could converse and were cared for by the bath master. It was an effective, pleasant, and comfortable healing method. The strong attraction of the baths founded the myth of the Fountain of Youth.
This knowledge was later outlawed and persecuted. The painter and sculptor Lucas Cranach the Elder tried to preserve this ancient knowledge through art. Close to persecuted nature religions, he is said to have created the symbolic relief at the pagan sanctuary of the Externsteine (Ritters, 1997). His most famous painting is “The Fountain of Youth” (1546, Late Renaissance). It shows a spring leading into a basin where many people bathe. Old people enter on the left; young, beautiful, and healthy people exit on the right. Art guides usually present this as wishful thinking or the idea of very rapid rejuvenation. Neither is true. These baths really existed, but rejuvenation took weeks or months.
The Reputation of the Bather
The baths were so effective that Europe had only one word for doctor, medic, or healer: “bather” (in German: “Bader”). The bather determined the bath’s composition and schedule based on patients’ condition and symptoms. He enjoyed high respect in pagan cultures, and his competence was unquestioned. Some of this myth remains in the reputation and rank of spa towns, which may still call themselves “Bad” or “Spa.” But in pagan times, only certain springs made a place a famous bath—they contained alkaline thermal water.
Many settlements were built near such valuable springs, allowing regular bathing. The custom of bathing on Saturdays to be clean for Sunday persisted until today. This habit originated in pagan times, when people wanted to celebrate holidays purely. Nowadays, holidays often mean poisoning oneself with alcohol and bad food, starting the night before. In earlier times, holidays involved perceiving energetic shifts and celebrating on a finer level, hard for us to comprehend. Bathing before holidays was as normal as dining out on Saturdays today. People also bathed regularly.
Cultural Adaptation — Advertising Campaigns for Unhealthy Nutrition
As long as Europeans bathed, they were invincible to the Romans. The Roman Empire tried to conquer the Celts, Germans, and Slavs north of the Alps through warfare and cultural adaptation. Cultural adaptation meant occupying legion fortresses in pagan areas and imposing their culture, customs, language, farming methods, and products. They promoted their wine as aggressively as Americans promote cola today. It was a centuries-long coexistence with occasional conflicts and feasts where Romans introduced unhealthy Roman eating habits.
From then on, baths became extremely important—so important that Roman strategists included them in their strategies. Baths cleaned the effects of moderately unhealthy diets relatively quickly. Repeated regularly, Europeans maintained their physical superiority. Roman explorer reports often mention European qualities that seemed uncanny to the Romans and suspicious to today’s people (literature examples). Their great physical strength inspired the Asterix stories. Authors Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny researched carefully: the Gauls were surprisingly strong compared to well-trained Roman soldiers, and Celtic women surprisingly beautiful (Schubert 2001). Anyone who eats alkaline and takes alkaline baths can experience increased physical strength over time.
Plutarch wrote that Britons had bare arms and legs in summer and winter and did not freeze. Caesar wrote that Celts fought battles naked except for helmets and spears and won. Longevity was also reported.
Roman Baths — Without Effect
Romans saw this bathing culture since 400 BC among Celts, whom they repeatedly failed to conquer. The Romans were brutal and had forgotten culture, even soap. Although soap was well known in antiquity, Sumerians and Egyptians documented recipes, the Romans only learned about it from Celts (Pliny the Elder cited by Kaiser 2005). In 91 BC, Greek doctor Asklepiades of Prusa was enslaved to Rome and introduced some Greek bath knowledge to the hated occupiers, enough to gain freedom (Griesshaber 2004). He also founded a teaching institute and established Roman “balneotherapy,” now widely used. This made bathing popular in Rome. Emperors hoped to gain great strength through it.
Roman baths (“Thermae”) appeared across Rome but lacked the crucial element—alkaline water. Water suitable for alkaline baths has to have a pH over 8 for osmosis. Springs with this were the sacred thermal springs of native Europeans, known as Irminsul. Not everything wet and transparent deserved this name. These alkaline springs were quite numerous, making native Europeans strong even when Roman neighbors invited them to feasts. They could cure hangovers in alkaline baths. They were strong and invincible for 400 years. Defeat came from within, through alcohol seduction, like Native Americans with whiskey—but in Europe it was supposedly noble wine.
Following wine feasts, customs and views of new neighbors entered natives’ consciousness. Celts and Germans were vegetarian. Archaeologists find no animal bones in their kitchen waste, but many fruit and vegetable scraps, nut and acorn shells, beechnut husks. At feasts with Romans, they were served meat they didn’t tolerate well, lowering their strength to Roman levels. Eventually, the regularity and discipline of alkaline bathing was lost in Western Europe, so Caesar subdued Gaul in 51 BC after seven years of war.
In the Name of Christ
Central and Eastern European Celts, Germans, Slavs, and other pagans resisted Roman attacks for 600 more years. They kept bathing seriously and repeatedly defeated Roman armies. Changed strategy was needed. Christianity, established as Rome’s state religion by 300 AD, was used to pacify people in Central and Eastern Europe, a perversion of Christ’s original message. The so-called Migration Period ended official Roman control over half Europe, but Roman ideas persisted. The empire shrank to the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), spanning Greece, Turkey, Egypt. Missionaries trained here instructed princes and kings of small states modeled after Rome. With rulers on their side, they could convert the people easier. Where kind words failed, “heathen slayers” forcibly converted stubborn ones after feasts with wine and meat.
Sealed!
Mission and alcohol were the two weapons, alongside Roman cultural features, in a nearly thousand-year advertising campaign (500 BC to 500 AD) that ushered Europe’s era of disease. Christianity distanced itself from John the Baptist’s rediscovery of bathing and treated pagan bathing culture as equally dangerous. In early Middle Ages (772–802), all thermae were sealed or bricked up (Lück 1993, Kinder/Hilgemann 1984). Charlemagne led the last battle against pagans in the “Saxon Wars.” Historian Lück wrote that the loss of these fountains of youth was devastating for the “Celtic” people.
After sealing the thermae, nobles underwent mass baptisms, and each county was controlled by a secular and a religious overseer. These “king’s messengers” (Missi dominici) with special powers controlled counts, religious events, and administration, so tributary tribes were supervised by both runaway counts and state servants and two overseers directly responsible to the emperor.
Ironically, in the name of Christ—who promoted alkaline bathing in the Mediterranean—the church sealed Europeans’ fountains of youth. It was a catastrophe for Celtic and Germanic peoples, who had remained defiant and unpredictable until then. They became governable and predictable.
Internal Pagans
People continued to bathe and alkalize their bathwater with powders (like the ancient Egyptian “Trona”). Over time, they adapted to new lifestyles: managed states with offices, new religion and church, importance of documents over sung epics, and the new learned language Latin. Sacred groves were taken and replaced by lifeless churches. But they kept connections to origins, with sorcerers, druids, witches, moon gardening, herb knowledge, and sun festivals (Feb 1, Apr 30, Aug 1, Oct 31). The most famous were energetic turning points: June 24 (shorter days) and Dec 24 (longer days). The church adopted Roman month and festival names and tried to assign Christian meaning, but could not stop old celebrations and customs. The spring festival with the egg as a pagan symbol of rebirth survives as Ostara today.
People adapted to the new time, creating a Christian-pagan mixture. The High Middle Ages (1000–1200) saw relative cultural flowering and less repression. Pagan rituals were only performed symbolically by day, so people turned to night. By day, they attended church; by night, they met for ritual dances in mushroom circles. Bardic singing got a second chance. People were pagans inside but left pastors and officials alone outside.
Bathing Ban
Around 1200, the church tried to expand influence: the ban on interest, which contributed to economic growth, was lifted (1179 by Pope Alexander III). The inquisition against pagan practices became episcopal (1215) then papal (1231 by Pope Gregory IX). Death penalty for blasphemy was introduced in France and Germany.
Most impactful on lifespan, health, and resilience was the church’s total ban on bathing at the end of the High Middle Ages, regardless of water type. This prevented people from making their bathwater alkaline with additives. Anyone caught bathing faced harsh penalties. The ban was justified by claiming bathing was immoral (Kaiser 2005). After the ban came the plague and decline in prosperity.
The Christian church feared alkaline bathing like the devil fears holy water.
Life expectancy sharply dropped in late Middle Ages and early modern period. Today, this short lifespan is referenced when talking about spectacular life extension, forgetting that people had been much older before. Memories of older times faded amid centuries of disease, war, and repression. Church-driven rote learning and indoctrination made children believe their parents’ holy festivals were Christian. Such indoctrination persisted through short-lived generations.
How could broad awareness of this power grab survive? Outrage over destitution awaits new history education because facts can be verified, old sources remain—few but enough to give clear reports.
Declining Life Expectancy Due to Changing Eating Habits
People became sick and died earlier from diet. Romans brought wine, soon grown in France and Germany to ensure supply. Church and state promoted it like today’s cola drinks. Every tavern had wine; soldiers and merchants carried supplies; everyone with status had wine selections. Wine was also carried in skins. In the Middle Ages, people were often drunk because they drank wine instead of water when thirsty (Marquardt 2005, Dombrowsky 2001).
Alcohol propaganda was supported by increasingly bad drinking water. Naked natives once drank fresh water from any stream, but leather tanning introduced pollution. They got leather and clothing—things they never needed before. Nudity was natural until the church imposed shame slowly accepted but forgotten where practicality clashed. Until the 15th century, it was common to walk naked to and from bathhouses to avoid storing clothes or drying off. Sleeping naked was usual, even with guests. Clothing introduction polluted drinking water first, as tanneries discharged deadly poisons into streams. Acidic wine was healthier than wastewater.
Romans also introduced grain farming. Where wine couldn’t grow, they brewed beer to control locals and mercenaries (Finouist 2005). Locals did not invent beer; it was an unwelcome drug trend.
Romans promoted bread from grain, devastating to health. Mills existed as people once baked bread from acorns (Pollmer et al. 2001). British, Celtic, and German oak forests were cut down, exact cause unknown, likely to enforce dietary change. Oaks were highly alkaline food. Loss of oak forests also weakened druids (dru (Celtic) = oak) (Schubert 2001). Life expectancy dropped when people switched to grain bread. Pollmer (2001) suggests people “bit the dust” due to no more acorns. Shipbuilding demand for wood was huge in Viking and Roman times.
Reeducation: From Alkaline Acorn Bread to Disease-Causing Grain
Supporting planned reeducation, pigs were driven into remaining oak forests for fattening. People lost the knowledge to bake acorn bread and fed pigs acorns instead of themselves. People ate mostly grain and meat in all forms. Bread became the staple for a long time. Average bread consumption was 1.5 kg per person per day. Most farmers kept livestock, even just poultry and rabbits. Bread was baked in advance; meat preserved by smoking and salting. People ate spoiled food. Result: disoriented, sick, aggressive, ugly population—the mob was born. This roughly describes the dark Middle Ages image today, a cruel era. Historically, it was mainly the late Middle Ages (1200–1700), the main witch hunt period.
While naked natives defeated Roman legions centuries before, now clothed and weak, they watched as last brothers and sisters living old traditions were executed. The inquisition targeted bearers of ancient knowledge—bards, witches, druids.
New Baths Made Public: Pitch and Sulfur
The bathing myth remained. Bather reputation as healers remained strong. Roman-style doctors and barbers with barbaric surgeries scared people as diet caused increasing sickness. Medicine was seen as quackery with no real alternative.
After public pressure, the church allowed baths again—but different ones. Baths with acidic water, like famous Czech baths in Marienbad and Karlsbad, high in sulfur, were promoted. People eagerly took chance to do bathing cures like ancestors, but the waters were ineffective or harmful.
Also New: Ineffective Steam Baths
A second new concept emerged—bathing in steam instead of water. This cheap method suited rulers as alkaline bathwater could not be mixed in. If knowledge of alkaline additives existed, it was useless here. This wooden bathhouse with fire, hot stones, and water poured on stones spread in Orthodox Russia, replacing thermae. It came to Finland, called sauna, now falsely marketed as a Finnish invention in Germany. Sauna users know cardiovascular deaths increase there.
Acidic Baths—Harmful Effects
Sulfur baths founded many bath towns in the 14th century, still existing. People bathed 10-12 hours daily for weeks, initially like in holy springs and self-made alkaline baths. Acidic water caused oozing, itchy rash unknown before alkaline baths. Rash was mistaken for detoxification but was acid buildup due to low pH (Hörnicke 1957). Skin inflamed; cure became exhausting.
In contrast, real alkaline baths are pleasant and refreshing. Skin recovers first by releasing acids into bathwater. Walter Sommer described alkaline long baths: “25 alkaline baths make you 25 years younger” (Sommer 1978). 25 baths of 12 hours each remove a quarter century of toxins and waste—what bathers expected.
Only in foul-smelling sulfur water was this effect missing. Bath cures failed; people grew susceptible to infections and plagues. By 16th century, bathing enthusiasm declined; people masked foul odors with flower scents, like King Louis XIV who bathed only twice in life (Kaiser 2005). By 19th century, last public bathhouses closed (Hörnicke 1957). Spa bath time dropped to half an hour, 2-3 times a week. Spas mostly promoted drinking water cures.
Strong acid input, e.g., sulfur water, acts as acid whip: existing waste breaks up; free acids bind to body bases or food bases forming excretable waste via urine and stool. Patients lose body base but also toxins causing symptoms. Massage and mild exercise in cures have similar effects. Symptom relief is perceived as healing but isn’t.
What Remains is a Bath Culture with Minimal Applications
Reflecting faintly old healing success, baths still attracted people but understood nothing about water quality. Official springs were tried. Some symptoms vanished, counted as cure; others appeared, blamed on fate.
Sebastian Kneipp’s Method in the 19th Century
Kneipp’s cold water therapy gained popularity as cold water is more alkaline than warm. If therapy allowed relatively long cold-water stays (via movement), serious symptoms eased. Feet and calves are called the body’s “auxiliary kidneys.” Sick people with stroke, diabetes, heart problems excrete much via feet to maintain minimum body pH. Open wounds, athlete’s foot, swollen feet show this excretion. Acids and toxins in feet are almost excreted. When such people enter relatively alkaline water, acids wash off skin, relieving overfilled storage sites, not overflowing them. This slight relief delighted Kneipp’s followers. Since effective cleansing knowledge was lost, people gratefully accepted this alms. Kneipp cures are weak compared to 2-hour foot baths in highly alkaline water.
Alkaline(surplus) plants and nutrition
Around Kneipp’s time, central European health slowly improved due to an alkaline-surplus American plant replacing grain bread. The 18th-century potato partially offset meat consumption, increasing life expectancy by decades. Today, middle-class diets still include meat and potatoes. Before potatoes, people ate organ meats (e.g., “Saumagen”) for bases, a good method if eating meat. Organs, especially liver, contain minerals if animals are unpoisoned. Where oak forests existed, eating organs balanced acid from meat parts. Feeding pigs acorns yielded pure liver. Before that, people ate acorns and beechnuts, achieving overwhelming health.
Meat and bread diet, offset by organs and some vegetables, barely ensured survival through 1300–1800. Life expectancy fell to about 40 years. Frederick the Great slightly improved this. Potatoes as staple mitigated acid load. Potatoes remain vital food for sick children to grow despite acid loads from various foods and medicines.
19th Century Health and Hygiene
Except slight improvements from water treading and potatoes, health stagnated in 19th-century Germany. Washing with soap became more frequent. Petroleum discovery affected body care. Petroleum and acidic plastics are in nearly every cream, shower gel, bubble bath under names like Paraffinum Liquidum, Petrolatum, Ceresin, Dimethicone, Microcristalline Wax, or simply Mineral Oil. Most baby creams (e.g., Penaten, Bebe) consist mostly of these acidic toxins.
Alkaline Bathing is Possible—Experience Its Effects!
Alkaline bathing today is as possible as 10,000 years ago. Make your bathwater alkaline with alkaline bath powder. Ensure it contains as few ingredients as possible. Do not include sea salt or Himalayan crystal salt, which lower pH below the important physiological threshold of 8.5 needed for sufficient pH gradient at the skin. Only then is detoxification by osmosis stimulated. Your bath powder should contain minerals.
Here the original German Youtube Video:
