Making Your Own Collodial Silver
Making Your Own Collodial Silver
Making Your Own Colloidal Silver (homemade)
Homemade colloidal silver is very easy and very cheap to make The materials are easily sourced and you can make gallons for dollars. However, you are flying blind, and that’s never good when addressing your health.
Let’s start with the most basic – what type of water you use.
The purest water you can get is distilled, but that’s not nearly as pure as the water we start with, which is USP23 or USP-24 Pharmaceutical Grade Purified water. Another name for this level of purity is WFI – water for injection, or ultra-pure deionized water. Silver wants to react with anything it can in the water, especially once you rip an electron off! Having ultra pure water is critically important, so the silver doesn’t react until it is in your body.
Next let’s address the active ingredient: silver.
Everyone uses 99.9% or 99.99% pure silver, but we demand the very finest silver possible. We have 99.999% pure silver fabricated for us, and then verify the purity by third party assay. How do you know the silver you get is pure – do you get a certificate of analysis from a reputable third party laboratory, fully accredited to perform the assay? Are you certain the other 0.01% isn’t composed entirely of the heavy toxic metals, like mercury, cadmium, aluminum, lead, hexavalent chromium and arsenic..? We check for everything, exhaustively.
Control measures. What control measures?
We monitor everything in our manufacturing process with constant in-process testing, but you have precious little to monitor at home, except for the color of the liquid you’re making. We monitor numerous attributes in production, ensuring a consistent output and quality, batch-to-batch and year-to-year. Prior to release we again test almost a dozen different parameters to make sure you get the same high quality product out of each and every bottle, with accurate dosage information and consistent results.
How much is too much? Know your concentration.
What concentration of silver do you have in your liquid? Concentration is critical, since you are working with a [heavy] metal. The only toxicity ever documented from the use of colloidal silver is a permanent blue/gray discoloration of the skin, known as Argyria, which has happened only as the result of consuming homemade forms of colloidal silver or concentrated forms of silver products (100 ppm or higher), or exposure to inhalation of silver dust, among others. Most companies that sell Do It Yourself colloidal silver kits recommended a TDS Meter (Total Dissolved Solids) to measure concentration, but a TDS meter is never appropriate for measuring the concentration of a colloidal silver product.
What form of silver are you getting?
Since there are no process- or quality controls when making homemade silver, and no analytical laboratory to perform analyses, how do you know what ratio of charge your silver has? Since the positively charged silver ion has been determined to be the most effective form of silver – i.e. silver that carries a charge, and not elemental (or neutral) silver – how much of yours possesses a charge? The more charge it has, the less silver you need. Also, is your silver mostly ionic or particulate? What is the particle size and distribution, and what degree of flocculation (aggregating) exists? Aggregation can mostly only be seen with specialized equipment, and is a strong indicator of product stability. Your body has a different way of processing silver, depending on its form, some are easier and yet others are more difficult to excrete.