Strontium and Calcium are kind like cousins. They both has double charges in ionic forms and placed in the same column in the period table. In fact, strontium is placed right below calcium at position 38. Strontium does play some role in our body, some are similar to calcium like helping the bone and connective tissue formation, and as you will know soon, strontium also play some other important roles for our skin.

Source of Strontium: Our earth has ample supply of strontium in the crust. 0.04 percent of the earth crust is composed of strontium. It also present in the seawater, and as a trace element in our body. On average, the human body contains about 320 mg of strontium, most of them are for the bones and connective tissues.

What Can Strontium Do for Us? It has been shown by Mayo Clinic that a fairly high dose (like 1.7 gram)of strontium does no harm to our human body. It has also been shown using x-ray that people who live in areas that has more strontium in their water, their soil has stronger teeth and bones. Those people in comparing with the population in large, has healthier teeth, no cavities and very little osteoporosis. Strontium, like calcium is a double charged base element, it can take place of calcium and help in the bone and connective tissue formation. It has been shown that if you have both calcium and strontium in your diet, calcium would be the competing element for strontium, that means that calcium would be more likely to be taking up rather than strontium. From the above study, we can see that strontium is also very important and vital to keep our bone healthy.

Another important discovery of strontium is how it prevent the irritation effects of chemical on our skin. It is possible that strontium prevent sensory irritation such as stinging, burning,itching, and inflammation by interacting with the nociceptive neurons on our skin.

How do we get Strontium? Normally strontium travels up to the food chain and end up plays some vital functions in our body. Due to heavy farming and chemical usage, our food quality is not the same as it was before. A lot of essential minerals are no longer contained in our food. Even when they do occur, it is less in quantity. We have to keep this in mind and search for products that can aleviate this. We can take strontium supplement and hope it will be incorporated into our system effectively to help our bones and connective tissues. We can also apply strontium containing creams to our skin to help prevent irritations.

A Rich Use-able Source of Strontium: Dead sea as we know, has its special place on this earth since biblical time. It's unique location - way below sea level, high concentration of minerals in its water makes it a unique location for health spa.

People who has skin problems such as Rosacea - a chronic skin problem that manifested as erythyma, dry skins problems, eczema, psoriasis, contact dermatitis, flock to the dead sea for relief.

From medical research studies, we see that strontium can help the relief of skin irritation for people who has contact dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis and rosacea. It also help people who has sensitive skins, prevent the skin react to perfums, daily house hold chemical.

Conclusion: From the above facts, we understand that it is vital to use products that containing strontium in help us winning the battle of environmental irritant to our skin. It is also beneficial to our body to supplement an absorbe-able strontium.