The US Food and Drug Administration doesn’t take kindly to claims that a product heals any kind of health condition, and if someone claims that about a mineral lake in the middle of Eastern Washington’s food belt, look out, their representatives will be knocking at your door. That is what happened to Roxie Thorson in the 1980’s.

The story starts long ago, before the regulatory behemoth noted above, known as the FDA, was ever an apple in an over stuffed government’s eye. Before the turn of the last century, Soap Lake, a mineral lake located in eastern Washington was a well-known spot frequented by the indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau. Though no definite source for the stories can be identified, early settlers were aware that native people used Soap Lake water and mud as treatment for snake bite, rashes, skin disorders and just about anything that ailed them. It didn’t take the settlers long to figure out there was something to these stories and by the early 1900’s they had figured out a way to extract minerals from the water to make salts that were sold at the local Soap Lake mercantile store. By 1910, the salts and numerous other products were being shipped all over the country.

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