Our Ionic Silver vs Homemade Silver
If you've thought about making colloidal silver at home, here are the things worth knowing before you do. We've been making colloidal silver in NZ for years, and there are real reasons we invest in the equipment we do.
What concerns exist with home-made silver?
Many lower-priced generators marketed for home use raise legitimate questions about the quality of silver they actually produce. Four factors really matter:
Particle size
Is the generator capable of producing particles of a specific micro size? Particle size determines whether the silver will be absorbed and effective, and whether it accumulates safely in the body or not.
Charging technology
What technology is used to charge the particles? Different methods produce different ratios of ionic to particulate silver, and home generators are often unable to control this.
Water quality
Is the water you're using actually pure enough to produce high-quality colloidal silver? Distilled water bought from supermarkets is generally not sufficiently pure for this purpose. Without lab-grade testing equipment, it's hard to know what you've got.
Equipment for testing
Without the right test gear, you're flying blind on concentration (PPM), particle size, and contaminants. Even small variations can significantly affect the end result.
Our water purification process
The water we use is laboratory-grade, sitting at roughly 0.0 to 0.1 microsiemens, which is around three times more pure than distilled water. Unlike fully deoxygenated water, ours is oxygen-enhanced. The purity of water is essential to producing high-quality silver, and that's before we get into its energetic and coherent molecular structure.
The cost question
It's also worth thinking through the actual cost. By the time you've bought a quality generator, a water purification system, testing equipment, and the time to do it consistently, you've likely spent more than a year's worth of professionally-made ionic colloidal silver. We've already done the hard work, so you don't have to.
Particle size of our silver
1. Poorly made home colloidal silver, transmission electron microscope photo at 100,000x magnification. Silver particles of this size and shape can lead to argyria.
2. Origin Health colloidal silver under the same magnification. Typical particle size is in the range of 0.001 to 0.005 um (micrometers), which converts to 1 to 5 nanometers. Note the uniformity of particle shapes and the fact that particles are separate rather than agglomerated. This is high-quality ionic colloidal silver.
Tested by NZ Labs Ltd.
You can read more about our silver and our safety standards on our colloidal silver lab testing page.