About New Zealand Rotorua Thermal Mud

Rotorua is located in the middle of an extremely active thermal region in New Zealand. Visitors to the area can experience active geysers, boiling mud pools, smoking fumaroles and hot water springs. The thermal mud in Parr’s Thermal Mud Range is obtained from this historically volcanic area and is enriched with many more minerals churned up to the surface from deep down in the earth by this thermal activity. Rotorua Thermal Mud is particularly rich in the following minerals: silica, aluminium, magnesium, calcium, iron, titanium, sulphur, phosphorus, sodium and potassium. There are also trace elements present of: copper, zinc, selenium, cobalt, manganese and molybdenum.

The thermal mud used in the Thermal Mud Range is sterilized first and then refined to remove any foreign matter such as traces of volcanic ash. The thermal mud in these products is used in a suspension of mineral spa water.

The high sulphur content of Rotorua Thermal Mud is very effective in killing bacteria on the skin and preventing or eliminating acne. Rotorua Thermal Mud also has the following beneficial properties:

• it is antiseptic – and can destroy pathogenic agents without attacking adjacent healthy tissue
• it is healing – the presence of silica, aluminium and zinc all aid tissue regeneration and scar prevention
it is absorbing – which helps absorb excess fluid and drain infections
• it is sedative – having a sedative effect for sore skin
• it is rebalancing – necessary mineral salts can be transferred to help restore equilibrium and additional mineral salts can aid your body’s immune system