Do you have a salt lamp?

[FriendlyFire]

They advertise as emitting negative ions which sounds a bit woo but I haven't bothered to check out whether it's true or not.

Salt must be heated to 1400C to release the negative ions

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That would probably burn the house down.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Nah I don't have one

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I have one, but not for the foolishly claimed effects. It just looks nice when the candle is in it, and it isn't too bright. Just a warm comfy glow.

 

[Hygro]

I have one. It makes for awesome ambient lighting in the night. It looks good sitting there. It has a dimmer on it. I love it. Definitely the kind of light you want in a bedroom.

 

[Truthy]

They look like a good source of hygge ions. I might get one

 

[Lillefix]

Never heard of those things. I have a rock of salt from Berchtesgaden which looks very similar and where you can place a candle. It's mainly for decoration, and not for any health benefits.

 

[Hygro]

A candle inside sounds nice. I see two of you mentioning that now and I’m tempted. My lamp is pretty thick tho but I’ll try it when I return to California.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

my parents have one and I like it. but I have a pretty strong no-bullfeathers philosophy when it comes to decorating my house, so all I use for lamps is energy-saving bulbs and literal graveyard candles.

 

[Farm Boy]

I used to use a candle before pets/kid. The light is fundamentally nicer. Just... ya'know. Fire hazard and all.

 

[Socrates99]

We thought we'd try one for the particulate thing. I remember dusting around it and thinking it wasn't doing a very stellar job but the light was pretty. Then my oldest knocked it off the table once and killed the light part. Pitched it after that.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

We thought we'd try one for the particulate thing. I remember dusting around it and thinking it wasn't doing a very stellar job but the light was pretty. Then my oldest knocked it off the table once and killed the light part. Pitched it after that.

For the record...the idea of ionization is that it creates ions in the air, which encounter particulates and in turn transfer the charge to them, which makes them clump together and settle out of the air. So when you encountered dust around the salt lamp that could be interpreted as indicating that it works.