This detox treatment can pull the dirt right out of you.

You breathe it on the 405. You get lungfuls when you hike. Open a window, and it's in your house. It's smog. What's a health-centric LA girl to do?

Sit down in a room full of salt, and breathe. That's what we did at Encino's Salt Chalet, one of a handful of salt therapy spots in the US (check out the one in NY).

Owner Dikla Kadosh and her husband discovered salt rooms in Israel, where they're used primarily to treat asthma, bronchitis and allergies. But for everyday Angelenos, breathing salt may eliminate tar, bacteria and other icky particles from the lungs.

It's simple: you'll enter a room that looks like a gleaming white cave, where pebbles of Dead Sea salt cover the floor and a layer of salt coats the walls. A machine blows aerosol salt (it's safe for people on low-sodium diets and it won't make you puffy since you aren't digesting it). You'll relax in a lounge chair and read, watch TV or snooze for 45 minutes. It's so purifying, it's officially called "halotherapy."

Talk about celestial seasonings.

Salt Chalet, 17401 Ventura Blvd., Suite B17, Encino, (818) 907-9512, MAP

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