The enterprise for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt in the village of Jebel Balkanabat makes a worthy contribution to providing the population with environmentally friendly medicinal products. This modern enterprise, subordinate to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, is capable of producing 400 thousand packages of medicinal and cosmetic products per year, including 200 thousand packages of the world-famous medicinal mud Mollagara and 100 thousand packages of volcanic mud and sea salt.
The enterprise consists of three departments - two production workshops and a laboratory, which are interconnected by a computer network. The nature of our country is rich in healing agents. Among them are different types of healing mud and sea salts. There are two types of healing mud - silt and volcanic. The silt mud of Lake Mollagara is known not only in our country, but also abroad. In recent years, the cosmetic properties of this healing mud have been studied and it turned out that it is very beneficial for the skin.
The healing properties of the mud from the unique volcanoes located in the Esenguly etrap are also very high. They are widely used in cosmetology and in the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, infertility, and skin diseases.
In the therapeutic mud workshop, raw materials are cleaned from various impurities and sand using special equipment, then diluted in the required proportions with water and packaged. The workshop capacity is 600 packages of finished products per hour. In the sea salt production workshop, at the first stage, sea salt is crushed to specified sizes, then, using a magnet, it is cleaned of metal and other impurities. For consumers, salt is produced in the form of tablets.