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Product Line Brings Bath City Minerals to Home and Spa
September 24, 2003, Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle Newspaper
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"... Birmingham – Margot's European Spa is celebrating not only 21 years at its downtown location, but also 34 minerals that are said to work miracles.
Margot's offers a new line of products called ME or Mineral Essentials, made fo natural minerals drawn from the Mount Clemens Mineral Basin.
Margot Kohler's spa at 280 N. Old Woodward is the only place in Michigan where the products are sold.
The ME line contains, body washes and lotions, foot pampering products and even bath salts that one woman credits with keeping her mobile.
Carey Dejazghere, 26, was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis when she was young. Her whole body hurt. Doctors told her she would be in a wheelchair by the time she was 18.
Then, her dad gave her a gift certificate to take a healing bath in the mineral water at St. joseph Mercy Hospital. It made all the difference in the world, she said.
The minerals seem to lubricate Dejazghere's muscles like oil worked for the Tin Man in the, Wizard of Oz.
"Ever since I started taking the baths, I've felt fantastic," said Dejazghere of New Baltimore, "It revitalizes you."
Dejazghere, a spokesperson for Jeep, does commercials and car shows. Before, she said she could, barely stand up all day. Now, her energy and attitude keeps her working much more, she said.
And she doesn't have to visit the spa or hospital for the baths; she can take them home using Mineral Essentials® bath salts.
Susan Gans owns the well from which the highly concentrated mineral water is pumped. It is said to have the highest mineral content of any body of water in the world.
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World Beats Path to Baths that Cured Horse
January 19, 1947, Detroit Free Press
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"...Many Michigan residents seeking "water cures" go on long journeys to far spas. On the way it's probable that they pass some of the 20,000 health seekers who come annually from far away places to Mt. Clemens to bathe in the waters of a lake no one has ever seen.
The lake is 1,500 feet straight down from Mt. Clemens and a sick horse is credited with discovering that its waters can relieve misery.
The exact nature of the horse's ailment is not known. However, in the years since then thousands have testified that the brackish stuff has a way of relieving the aches and pains.
Apparently, the horse had no idea that below his feet there was a salty lake covering two square miles.
Legend says that he had his mind only on dying, after being abandoned by his rider. He was so sick that the place he chose – under a dripping storage tank abondoned by a luckless salt operator – didn't even matter.
He gave up hope in a muddy pool – and thereby founded a new industry. The legend goes on that he shortly was kicking up mud like a colt and that his friskiness so impressed a mill operator suffering from apparently incurable skin eruptions that the miller took a bath for himself right out in public.
Results were such that people have been bathing like mad in the vicinity ever since...."
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Mineral Bath's Miracle to Man Stranded in City
– January 6, 1936, Mount Clemens Daily Leader
"... The days of miracles have not ended and, apparently, will not end until the last drop of mineral water has been pumped out from the wells of Mount Clemens.
A week ago William Greenfield, structural engineer by profession and a sad victim of adversity by fate, struggled into the city in one of the most pitful conditions imaginable. Without funds, a wife and five-months-old baby to care for and himself paralyzed to such an extent that could not even walk without the assistance of crutches...
On the first day Greenfield visited the bath house he was taken there in a wheel chair.
Today he took his sixth bath and, instead of riding in the chair, he walked briskly from Lexington hotel to the Medea and back again.
A week ago Greenfield could not bend his fingers on either hand, his legs were stiff and he could barely see. Today he answered the ring at the Hotel door himself and cheerily invited the Leader representative to enter..."
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Mineral Baths Weld Friendship of Three Men for Fifty Years
– June 4, 1937, The Mount Clemens Advertiser
"... Herman C. Baehr's first visit to Mount Clemens was a painful one.
But none of the succeding fifty visits have been – for, in Mount Clemens, he found health plus the friendship of two men with whom he will observe a golden anniversary next Thursday.
Fifty years ago, when he was 21 and suffering with inflamatory rheumatism, he was brouoght here from Cleveland in a plaster cast.
The first person he consulted was John Meyer, Mount Clemens chemist, who gave the same advice Cleveland physicians had given: Mount Clemens mineral baths.
Baehr was lifted into the tub and out. Soon he was able to walk with the aid of crutches and, when he had taken prescribed course of 21 baths, he walked with a cane..."
Former Opera Donna is Guest in City for 20th Year
– June 11, 1937, The Mount Clemens Daily Advertiser
"... Mount Clemens has a distinguished guest in the person of Mrs. H. E. Krehbiel, former grand opera prima donna, who is spending the summer at St. Joseph sanitarium, where she is taking the mineral baths and visiting many friends she has made during the 20 years that she has been coming here.
Known as Marie Van on the grand opera stage, Mrs. Krehbiel is a rheumatism sufferer and has been coming here for 20 years.
– I tried mineral baths in well known places in Europe – she said, – and never have I found any as wonderful as those you have here..."
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