After last months story on the Hungarian peat, I was asked about whether or not peat baths might work? Its been known for centuries that natural sulfur springs are healing to many. And in Europe, peat has been used for healing baths for centuries. These baths work because your skin is semi-permeable. When you bathe, compounds in the water can cross into your system.
Each type of bath has different qualities. Epsom salts provide magnesium for skin absorption. Sulfur springs provide detoxifying sulfur compounds. Peat provides humic and fulvic acid for topical chelation. Fulvic acid is another complex organic compound with lots of acid residues, but smaller than humic acid. So it also has lots of chelation potential. When you bathe in it, the chelating compounds in the bath water can pull out metals through your skin.
Further, if the particular peat bath you are using is carrying lots of nutritional minerals, these will be available for absorption into your skin. Your body will actually exchange toxic heavy metals (which the peat pulls out) for the nutritional metals.
There are many different peat-bath formulas on the market. Check with your local health food store or on the Internet.