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ON THE RADIO WITH Pavlo Phitidis FUTURE-50

ON THE RADIO WITH Pavlo Phitidis FUTURE-50

Business growth specialist Pavlo Phitidis features ORYX DESERT SALT on...

By Nina Geraghty

Our Press Release in Business Insider

Our Press Release in Business Insider

The five-year retail anniversary caps a period of steady international...

By Nina Geraghty

We're featured in US INSIDER

We're featured in US INSIDER

Oryx built its entire commercial model around a philosophy that...

By Nina Geraghty

We're featured in SFWEEKLY

We're featured in SFWEEKLY

We have been arguing about salt for fifty years, but...

By Nina Geraghty

We're featured in GRIT DAILY/APPLE NEWS SYNDICATION

We're featured in GRIT DAILY/APPLE NEWS SYNDICATION

For years, sea salt dominated conversations around specialty cooking ingredients....

By Nina Geraghty

Behind the Scenes at Oryx Desert Salt: spotlight on Shafiek Lakay

Behind the Scenes at Oryx Desert Salt: spotlight on Shafiek Lakay

What the customer sees is Oryx Desert Salt as a...

OUR STORY

By Nina Geraghty

We're featured in Mom The Mag

We're featured in Mom The Mag

For any mom reading labels at the grocery store, Oryx...

By Nina Geraghty

There's a Difference between Sea Salt & Desert Salt that's Invisible. You Should Know about it.

There's a Difference between Sea Salt & Desert Salt that's Invisible. You Should Know about it.

The difference between most sea salts and desert salt is...

By Nina Geraghty

A Never-Ending Love Story: Salt Is Our Valentine

A Never-Ending Love Story: Salt Is Our Valentine

If love were an ingredient, it wouldn’t be sugar. It...

FOR THE FOODIES

By Nina Geraghty

Getting Married? One little thing you can tick off your list…

Getting Married? One little thing you can tick off your list…

Current trends show that modern couples are now mindful of...

By Nina Geraghty

Oryx Desert Salt is a ‘Cupboard Essentials’ Nourish Awards Winner

Oryx Desert Salt is a ‘Cupboard Essentials’ Nourish Awards Winner

Oryx Desert Salt has been named a Nourish Awards® winner...

By Nina Geraghty

Gift Salt with a Story

Gift Salt with a Story

Salt may be very ordinary and every day. But when...

By Nina Geraghty

It's the Season(ing) for the Braai

It's the Season(ing) for the Braai

Heritage Day is around the corner, and that means it’s...

By Nina Geraghty

SOLE: a salt water tonic for daily hydration and energy

SOLE: a salt water tonic for daily hydration and energy

Sole has been consumed by humans for thousands of years;...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Are You Grinding Plastic into your Food?

Are You Grinding Plastic into your Food?

You wouldn’t knowingly sprinkle plastic on your dinner - so...

By Nina Geraghty

Read This Before Going On a Fast (how salt supports the fasting process)

Read This Before Going On a Fast (how salt supports the fasting process)

Though you may not realise it, fasting is nothing unusual,...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Kidneys & Salt

Kidney Health & Salt: what's the connection?

If you’re experiencing water retention – swollen lower legs, ankles...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Hydration_Featured

Drink Less Water, Eat More Salt

We can’t talk about hydration without talking about salt. Water...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

The Age of Plastic

The Age of Plastic

The stone-age began some 2.5 million years ago, followed by...

By Nina Geraghty

Marty's Tomato Juice & Oryx Desert Salt_featured

Tomato Juice Reinvented: beyond the Bloody Mary

Martin Raubenheimer has always loved tomato juice, particularly as it...

By Nina Geraghty

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ESSENTIAL FOR THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE

Mineral-rich flavour enhancing your vitality

Pure desert salt from a unique ancient salt deposit in the pristine Kalahari, Southern Africa.

Unprocessed. Unpolluted. Uncompromised.

Naturally organic, sun-dried, clean and unrefined. A sustainable, underground salt lake-free from pharmaceutical & industrial contamination and micro-plastics.

Full-flavoured Madagascan pepper

Hand-harvested, vibrant, fresh, grown without chemicals, and the perfect complement to our mineral-rich desert salt.

Refillable.
Reusable.
Real value.

#RefillNotLandfill

Long-lasting ceramic mechanism - no plastic grinding into your food and cost effective

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100% PURE, CRYSTAL-WHITE,
NATURAL DESERT SALT

Partner Collaborations

Just as it existed when traded ounce for ounce for gold eight thousand years ago. We add nothing and we take nothing away.

As an owner-managed brand (OMB), Oryx Desert Salt appreciates and supports other OMBs by actively promoting local brands. It’s part of our philosophy that understands we don’t operate in isolation. We enjoy collaborating with other like-minded brands because we’re all on the same journey; helping to create a better world through what we produce and the ecologically-aligned way we produce it

SUNDRIED, UNREFINED,
NO ADDITIVES

As nature intended – no additives, no anti-clumping agents, no preservatives. Dried by the hot African desert sun. Unrefined and unprocessed. The underground brine lake is 100% saturated, so it takes only 4 weeks for the salt to crystalise in our main harvest season in summer when the temperatures reach up to 47o.

The underground streams converge and replenish an ancient underground lake of 55 million tons from which the salt water is pumped, laid on the pan under the hot Kalahari sun and sun-dried. This process lives in harmony with the natural rainfall and the surrounding environment. We only extract what nature provides.

SUSTAINABLE & RENEWABLE

The ancient Dwyka rock formations, through which the underground streams flow, are geo-scientifically tested to be 250-300 million years old. The 50km2 salt pan is situated in the Kalahari Desert of 900,000km2, inside the Kalahari Basin which spans an area of 2.5 million km². 50km’s south of Botswana and +-250km north of Upington. A remote, pristine and beautiful area. The name KALAHARI is derived from the Tswana word Kgalagadi, meaning ‘the great thirst’.

Ancient Pristine Source

Oryx Desert Salt has a unique and exceptional taste, which enhances and enriches the flavour of your food. Chefs from around the world taste the difference. “No dish at Restaurant is complete without a pinch of Oryx Desert Salt.” – Jan Hendrik – South Africa’s first Michelin-star chef “ORYX desert salt is a great food salt. I use it as a salt on a day to day basis, as well as a finishing salt. The salt is everything I look for when it comes to flavour.” – Craig Cormack, SALT restaurant, Waterford Wine Estate, Somerset West.

LOVED BY INTERNATIONAL CHEFS

The success of our business is built on strong partnerships and suppliers. We believe in impact sourcing; supporting small, often women-owned businesses, suppliers who engage in community upliftment such as Backyard farms who supply our chillies and independent co-operative farmers who produce our Madagascan pepper. We also build collaborative relationships with chefs and cooking schools. We give back through contributing to Kalahari First Nation Khomani San and Mier communities via the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Project Biome, a regenerative, Earth-rewilding program.

GIVING BACK

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