if you don’t seal it, liquids will soak in to the marble and it will be unsanitary and stained/discolored. It sounds so pretty! make sure you always use a cutting board even after sealing it, talk to the guys at Lowe’s about the peeling.

best wishes,
cryllie

Bacteria seeps in !

This should not be happening. . .
You should have used a solvent based impregnating sealant. .
Either you used the wrong thing as a sealant or there was something in your tile which is coming out and lifting whatever it was that you coated your tile with up off the tile. . .
Marble has been used for countertops for thousands of years and only in the past few decades have sealants been offered. . .

Marble is very porous. Like the other person said– it’s been in use for hundreds of years. I think I’d check with a stone/marble providedr- not a big box place. The big box places have good people, but marble isn’t the same as other surfaces.
good luck