Can sea salt really be called Organic?

There is some controversy about calling sea salt Organic. It cannot be "certified organically grown" as that term is reserved for products from living organisms (ie plants). 

Marisol Sea Salts are certified by "Certiplanet", European mark of exceptional quality and purity. These salts are certified to be 100% *natural (*no additives), hand-harvested by ancient organic methods, processed by organic methods, unrefined, and free of pesticides, herbicides, and chemical residues. This is the highest and most stringent level of certification available for sea salt.

Marisol sea salt is hand-harvested by traditional organic methods using only traditional hand tools in 2 nature reserves in the Algarve region of Portugal.

Marisol's sea salts are known worlwide for exceptional quality and fine taste. 

Marisol's sea salts are very clean and are a creamy-white colour, due to very careful harvesting and the hotter climate in Portugal, which results in a naturally much cleaner salt than the greyer salt from France.

Marisol Sea Salt is available as: traditional medium or fine sea salt, Flor de Sal gourmet sea salt and Flos Salis, an ultra-fine delicate first harvest gourmet salt.

Marisol Sea Salt can be used in foods or other products labeled as " organic ".

Flor De Sal and Flos Salis are very special sea salts. Delicate and exquisite fine moist granules of whitish sea salt are traditionally organically hand-harvested (mostly by women) by gently skimming the surface of the sea water of the salt marshes.

All of our sea salts are are organically hand-harvested using traditional organic sea salt harvesting methods. All are mineral-rich, unrefined, unbleached and chemical-free as nature intended.

All of our salts can be used in foods or other products labeled as " organic ".