This product is fabulous. Our dog almost died a few years ago from traditional snow-melting salt. She became extremely dehydrated after licking it off her paws (in addition to crying from painful cracked paws), and needed to be on an IV at the Vet for two full days. Once we moved out of the city and I needed a snow-melting product, I vowed not to use regular salt and found this. It starts melting the snow almost on contact, and is safe for the lawn and environment in addition to animals. It really does work wonderfully and I think it's worth the price.