In the 1990’s the government abolished taxes on imported industrial salt and made it impossible for locals to compete. Wajd was created to sustain this salt mining tradition and salvage the neglected salt mines of Anfeh that are rumoured to have been the first site of human salt cultivation dating back to the Phoenicians. Our artisanal sea salts are unrefined which means they are not subject to any processing, thus preserving all their valuable trace minerals.