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What’s
the Best Brand of Colloidal Silver?
Colloidal
silver brands come in all shapes and sizes.
And each of them tout special bells-and-whistles they claim make them
“the best” or “the most effective,” or the “most potent” brand of colloidal
silver on the market.
But what’s
the truth? How can you cut through the
marketing hype and conflicting claims, and find the right brand for yourself
and your family? Well, frankly, it’s
about as easy, or difficult, as choosing the right laundry detergent. Here’s what I mean…
Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
If
you choose to use a commercial brand of colloidal silver rather than making your own colloidal silver with a high-quality
Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, you can easily find yourself
overwhelmed with choices.
There
are literally hundreds of brands of
colloidal silver on the market, and therefore literally hundreds of choices.
What’s
more, just about every brand of colloidal silver claims to be “the best,” or
the “most effective,” or the “only good” form of colloidal silver on the market.
How
to wade through all of the conflicting claims?
It’s
no different than if you were deciding upon which laundry detergent to
use. You have to try a few out until you
find the one you like best.
The Marketing
Hook
First,
keep in mind that just about every colloidal silver vendor uses a marketing "hook."
This means they tout some unique feature about their product that differentiates
it from all of the other colloidal silver products on the market.
The
“hook” is what colloidal silver vendors use to make their product sound
different or better than others, so that you’re “hooked” into buying the
product.
While
some “hooks” are legitimate, many are just pure marketing hype.
For
example, some colloidal silver vendors claim their silver is superior because
it's composed chiefly of ionic silver. Some claim theirs is superior because
it's composed chiefly of particulate or metallic silver.
Some
claim theirs is superior because it's “nano-silver.” Some claim theirs is superior
because it's infused with oxygen. Some claim theirs is superior because it’s more
“electrically active.”
Some
claim theirs is superior because it’s infused with a particular electrical
frequency in a certain mega-hertz range that is part of the “universal healing
code.”
(Honest!
At least one colloidal silver vendor actually makes that claim, and another
claims to be infused with an even “better” electrical frequency that closely
mimics the electrical frequency of human cells!
And how’s anyone ever going to prove those
claims? Hmmm.)
Other
colloidal silver vendors claim their brand is more effective because it’s more highly
concentrated. Some even claim theirs is
a “unique species” of silver unlike anything the world has ever seen.
While
still others claim theirs is more effective because it has a protein coating,
or a silver oxide coating, or utilizes a citric acid binder…well, you get the
idea, right?
Finally,
one colloidal silver vendor even goes so far as to make the laughable claim that
all other brands of colloidal silver are largely “ineffective,” and only his is
the “real” colloidal silver.
The
bottom line is that there are just about as many different claims -- some quite
wild and fanciful, and some at least remotely legitimate -- as there are
different brands of colloidal silver.
Because
of this, I urge readers to look beyond
the marketing "hooks" and recognize that it’s not the
marketing hook that does the healing. It’s
the SILVER that does the healing.
In
general, silver does 98% of the healing, and maybe the marketing hook (to the extent
it's true) adds another 2% if you’re lucky.
There
are, of course, exceptions to that general rule-of-thumb, particularly if
you’re comparing a major, privately-manufactured brand of colloidal silver to a
brand produced by bulk wholesalers.
In
such a case, the difference in quality and effectiveness can be significant,
because bulk wholesalers tend to manufacture colloidal silver in a rapid,
haphazard manner using only minimal testing and quality control procedures…
…whereas
the major private manufacturers of colloidal silver tend to take great care in
the manufacture of their product, utilizing extensive testing and keeping
numerous quality control procedures in place throughout the entire colloidal
silver-making process and afterwards.
So
if you stick with the major brands, I think you’ll find my generalization above
to be pretty close to the truth.
While
all of the major colloidal silver brands have their own marketing “hook” that’s
used to differentiate their product from
the rest, when push comes to shove they’re generally pretty darned close in
quality and effectiveness.
And
that’s because SILVER is their foundational ingredient.
Again,
this is no different than trying to figure out which major brand of laundry
detergent to use. They all
contain the very same basic “soap” ingredients.
And they all have some extra ingredient they tout, in order to differentiate
their product from all of the others.
That’s
their marketing “hook.”
But
the truth of the matter is this: It’s
the basic ingredients in the soap
that do the vast majority of the heavy lifting.
And those same basic ingredients are in every brand of soap.
Similarly,
with colloidal silver it’s the silver
that does the healing, and not so much the added bells and whistles, which is
to say, the marketing “hook.”
The Best
Brand of Colloidal Silver
So
if you're looking for the "best" brand of colloidal silver, it's the one that works best for you.
All
you can do is try a few brands out over time, and settle on one that works best
for your family.
In
my opinion, after 16 years of trying different colloidal silver products, Sovereign
Silver from Natural-Immunogenics Corp is certainly one
of the best of the major commercial brands out there.
Sovereign
Silver is widely considered to be the #1 best-selling brand of colloidal silver
on the market today – and for very good reason, i.e.,
…it’s
not a “bulk” product created in big vats and sold in 55 gallon drums to wholesale
distributors who then bottle and re-sell it to dozens of different companies that
in turn put their own company brand labels on it as if they were the actual
producers of the product.
Instead,
Sovereign Silver is manufactured in the company’s own private manufacturing
facility, under their direct supervision, to their precise specifications, and
batch tested for uniformity and quality control before it’s
bottled, labeled and sold to the public.
Sovereign
Silver is definitely at the top of my list of the major brands for both quality
and effectiveness.
Another good brand is ASAP Solution colloidal
silver, which is sold under the Silver Biotics label
and several others labels, including Silver Sol.
ASAP
is also privately manufactured, and to date has the most impressive clinical
testing behind it. The company even has
EPA registration and regulation of some of their topical colloidal silver
products.
Opti-Silver from Invision
International is also a high-quality, privately-manufactured product that’s quite
effective. And there are a number of
others.
My
point here is not to choose your brand of colloidal silver for you. My point is
to educate you to the fact that there are many
great brands, and that just about any of the major brands will give you a good
introduction to colloidal silver usage.
Again,
the general rule-of-thumb is this: When
you do your research into the various colloidal silver vendors, look for brands that are manufactured
in-house, and not purchased in bulk from some unidentified wholesale
vendor.
Bulk
purchased products are generally the most poorly manufactured, and thus will be
the least effective. And unfortunately,
they constitute the vast majority of colloidal silver products on the market
today.
A
good major colloidal silver vendor that manufactures their own product to their
own specifications will generally say so on their company web site, whereas a
colloidal silver vendor who purchases in bulk from a wholesaler and simply
bottles and labels the product as their own will not mention their product’s
origin.
It’s the
Silver…
In
spite of the conflicting claims and bewildering array of marketing “hooks,” all brands of colloidal silver attack pathogens
in the same basic ways, i.e.:
·
electro-chemical
discharge of oxygen (i.e., oxidation or “disinfection” of the pathogen from the
outside, also called “catalytic oxidation”); this is similar to the way
hydrogen peroxide works in that the pathogen is literally destroyed by the
oxygen “burst” upon coming into contact with the silver…
·
blocking
cellular “respiration”; in this case, atomic
(nascent) oxygen absorbed onto the surface of silver ions in solution will
readily react with the sulfhydryl (-S-H) groups
surrounding the surface of bacteria or viruses to remove the hydrogen atoms (as
water), causing the sulfur atoms to form an R-S-S-R bond; blocking respiration
and causing the bacteria to expire from lack of energy…
·
penetration of the pathogen resulting in disruption of cellular function from the inside out…
·
and in the case of viral pathogens, disruption of DNA function (i.e., preventing the virus from
reproducing itself inside of red blood cells).
What
this means is that you have to take all of the claims of superior performance
with a grain of salt – some may be true, many are not -- and simply try a few good
brands over time until you find the one you really like.
Learning More
About Colloidal Silver
To get some ideas of the many different ways colloidal silver can be used, and the many different illnesses and diseases it can help heal, check out the Colloidal Silver Success Stories” web site.
This
is where hundreds of experienced
colloidal silver users have written in and explained exactly what they used
colloidal silver for, how they used
it and how successful they were.
Another
important informational resources on colloidal silver is the Clinical Studies and Reports page on
TheSilverEdge.com web site, where you’ll now find dozens of actual medical studies and reports in downloadable PDF
format, each demonstrating the powerful infection-fighting qualities of
colloidal silver.
And
if you’re interested in reading what bona-fide medical and clinical experts have
to say about colloidal silver, be sure to check out the What the Experts Say About Colloidal
Silver
page at TheSilverEdge.com.
This
page has hundreds upon hundreds of quotes from modern-day experts as well as from
colloidal silver pioneers going all of the way back to the early 1900’s.
And
if you’re a real information junkie,
then you’ll want to dig through the literally dozens of great articles about colloidal silver usage at this link.
Finally,
be sure to join the Colloidal
Silver Secrets Community on Facebook, where you’ll find late-breaking news and information on
colloidal silver, and where over 1,690 avid colloidal silver users share their
favorite ways of using colloidal silver!
Good, Better,
Best?
In
her hit song, The Best, singer Tina
Turner croons, “You’re simply the best, better than all the rest.”
Well,
in my view, silver is simply the best
all around natural germ fighter in existence.
But
which brand of colloidal silver is
better than all of the others?
As
I’ve stated earlier, my personal favorite commercial brand is Sovereign
Silver. But I’ve used most of the major
brands at one time or another over the past 17 years…
…
And I’ve found them all to be effective.
I honestly can’t say I’ve found one major brand to be astonishingly better than any of the other major brands.
The
key, in my opinion, is to stick with the major brands that manufacture their
own colloidal silver.
If
you stick with the major brands you should do alright. And by trying a few of them, you’ll inevitably
find one that works best for you.
Regardless
of whether you purchase a commercial brand of colloidal silver, or choose to
save money by making your
own high-quality colloidal silver, you’ll inevitably find colloidal silver to be one of the most
beneficial and helpful natural substances you’ve ever used.
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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Disclaimer: The contents of this Ezine have not been
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Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and
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thereof. The author, Steve Barwick, is a
natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing
professionally about natural health topics.
He is not a doctor. Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine
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meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice. Nothing reported herein is intended to
diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has
learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver
and its usage. Therefore, the
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Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction,
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