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Pelotherapy is the application of thermal muds (“peloids”) for recovering muscle–bone–skin pathologies; more recently such old practice has received applications also for wellness and relax purposes.Thermal muds are hydrothermal or hydrothermalized pastes produced by primary or secondary mixing of clayey (geo)materials with salty thermo-mineral waters, accompanied by organic materials produced by...
Spa centres in northern Italy use clayey admixtures for the formulation of muds to be used in pelotherapy. The basic ingredient (''virgin'' clay) is a dressed bentonitic geomaterial with mineralogical composition: smectite 60-70%, illite 5-10%, kaolinite 10-15%, quartz 5-10%, calcite 5-10% and feldspars 2-3%.The peloid muds are obtained by ''maturation'' of the virgin clay with mineral waters gushing...
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