ABSTRACT
Through the years, clays, especially those belonging to the smectite family, have been used in medicine and as cosmetics; some of the experience gained fits in the book. We will take it as a starting point and then get a glimpse of the scientific background on which modern knowhow and use of clays for body treatment rests, internally and externally, and also discuss some other practical cases of interaction of smectitic clay and organics.
