Potential of salt as salt body scrubs to support salt tourism in Pamekasan, Madura Island, East Java

Abstract

Abstract Madura Island is famous as the salt island and surrounded by Madura Strait and Java Sea has the potential for marine tourism development, one of which is a salt tourism in Pamekasan Regency. Dissemination of cosmetic salt (salt body scrub) to salt farmers in Pamekasan has been organized by Department of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Pamekasan in 2018 so that they have the skill of local salt diversification into added value products. Diversification of salt as body care products (salt body scrub) can be packaged into an education-ecotourism package which is tourist attraction so that salt body scrubs have business potential to support salt tourism. This paper studies the use of unrefined salt as salt body scrubs and is expected to be a reference for coastal communities, especially salt farmers in Pamekasan that is to support salt tourism and increase the added value of local salt.