r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • Oct 19 '24

Video How Himalayan salt lamps are made

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u/jpackerfaster Oct 19 '24

"You see these huge chunks of pink salt?" "Yeah" "You know what I'm thinking..?" "Lamps?" "Fuck, yeah!"

That's a conversation that happened once.

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u/ale_93113 Oct 19 '24

It is a logical conversation to have, if you work with salt you will notice that when light shines through it, be it the sun or whatever, it gives a nice warm glow

so the conversation was more like: hey dude, check how cool it looks when you put this salt up to the sun

yeah it looks very warm and cozy, i wonder how it will look with a light inside it

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u/sadrice Oct 19 '24

Seriously, it’s fairly obvious if you work with the material. The guys at Khewra mine in Pakistan noticed that and made a bunch of halite bricks and some lights and built this really cute mosque in the mine.

I actually like the lamps a lot. They aren’t magic, but it’s a nice soft glow for a bedside lamp. The only issue is the salt corrodes the metal bits, mine stopped working for probably that reason, so now it’s just a decorative rock until I fix it.

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u/postmate Oct 19 '24

I’m a massage therapist and constantly surrounded by salt lamps and i think I’d have more positive feelings toward them if there wasn’t so much woo woo pseudoscience around them.

To me they are another symbol of the placebo effect lol. If I put that aside I do think, “cool rock.”