The Best Salt on Earth No Additives A Fair Trade Product of Pakistan Ancient Ocean Salt 300 million years ago, a vast primordial ocean covered the area that is now the Himalayan mountain range. The salt from that unpolluted ocean was preserved as large crystal formations. Himalayan salt is the purest and most balanced salt on earth, containing the same trace minerals as the human body. Solid salt crystals blocks are hand picked, washed and sun dried. Then the blocks are hammer crushed and sieved in various size crystals.