Anti-Caking Agents, Table Salt Additives, and Why Natural Salt Clumps Salt is one of the oldest ingredients in human history -- used for nourishment, preservation, and even ceremonial purposes across cultures. Yet many modern grocery store salts contain more than just sodium chloride. If you’ve ever wondered what is actually in table salt , the answer may surprise you. Many commercial salts contain anti-caking agents : additives designed to keep salt perfectly dry and free-flowing. While...

Salt is elemental. Ancient. Essential to life and ritual. Yet even this most fundamental material is no longer untouched by the modern world. Across oceans, lakes, and waterways, microscopic fragments of degraded plastic — known as microplastics — have become widely distributed throughout the environment. Measuring less than five millimeters, these particles are now found in air, soil, water, wildlife, and increasingly, in materials we encounter every day. For those who value purity and...

December is a month of layers. Light over darkness. Silence beneath celebration. Stillness inside momentum. It is also the season of choosing what is worth giving and sourcing what carries meaning beyond the moment, what feels appropriate to place in another person’s hands. At Cleo Salt, December is when our work becomes most visible -- not louder, but clearer. It is the month when intention matters more than speed, and where refinement reveals itself not through excess, but through precision...