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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

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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

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What is the Difference between Salt and Sodium?

Sodium is not salt. It’s a common and easy enough...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

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Grass-Fed Langside Meats: Where Good Health, Great Flavour & Ethical Farming Meet

Many of us have grown up with a mental picture...

By Nina Geraghty

Roasted Cauliflower with Chilli Oil & Triple Hummus

Roasted Cauliflower with Chilli Oil & Triple Hummus

For the roasted cauliflower with chili oil and triple hummus...

By Nina Geraghty

Is Salt Bad For You - Featured

Is Salt Bad For You?

The push to consume less salt is not only standard...

Health & Wellness

By Mark Myerson

Beet Kvass Recipe - Featured

Beet Kvass

Discover the tangy and refreshing taste of homemade beet kvass,...

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Insomnia - Featured

Salt & Insomnia

We had a great chat with Nick French, who’s an...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Pregnancy_Featured

Growing a Baby Needs Salt

The expectant mother, like every human being, needs salt as...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Table Salt vs Natural Salt_Featured

Table Salt vs Natural Salt

Is there a difference? You’d be forgiven for assuming that...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Sweet Sleep with Salt - Oryx Desert Salt - Featured

Sweet Sleep with Salt

Did you know sodium also plays a part in how...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Women's Menstrual Cycles - The Role of Salt

Women's Menstrual Cycles: the role of salt

The way we experience the days leading up to and...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

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Why Do You Need Electrolytes If You Eat a Healthy Diet?

When eating a clean diet that is low in sugar,...

Health & Wellness

By Mark Myerson

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Salt & Hormonal Health: the adventure into menopause

Menopause simply means to stop menstruating; yet the word is...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

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Rethinking Salt: four ways salt can change your mind

Are you energised and happily productive? Or are you struggling...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

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What You Should Know About Hydration and Breastfeeding

Drinking enough water is especially important during breastfeeding. And, getting...

Health & Wellness

By Mark Myerson

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Can Electrolytes Reduce Hunder During a Fast?

Surprising new evidence from an unlikely source shows that the...

Health & Wellness

By Mark Myerson

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Calling our Athletes! Do you know why you need salt?

Athletes need salt to stay properly hydrated because salt, or...

Health & Wellness

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 the interconnection between a number of different partners and suppliers. We believe in:
impact sourcing (choosing to source locally where ever possible, supporting small, often women-owned businesses) and building collaborative relationships (for example, our chefs and cooking schools are valued ambassadors) contributing to previously marginalised communities. A percentage of our monthly turnover is donated to the Khomani San and Mier communities who own !Xaus Lodgein the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the Kalahari Desert.

GIVING BACK

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