Colloidal Copper

Did you know that copper is naturally a fungus fighter? Farmers have been using it for years to keep fungus off of their crops. It's also very helpful for your skin and maintaining gorgeous elasticity as well as restoring gray hairs to their natural color. I also use it as a replacement for water when I make my own facial creams and serums.

Copper Uses

• Promotes healthy skin.
• Supports healthy cartilage and tendon regeneration.
• Plays a critical role in cellular energy production.
• Helps maintain the integrity of connective tissue in the heart and blood vessels.
• Plays a role in bone formation.
• Plays a role in the metabolism of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine.
• Functions as an antioxidant.
• Necessary for normal iron metabolism and red blood cell formation.
• Copper is known to play an important role in the development and maintenance of immune system function.
• Copper increases the body's ability to absorb iron.

This post is going to be about how to make your own colloidal copper on the cheap! I will have links below to the equipment that you need.

Supplies:
Wide mouth Jar
Generator
99% copper or silver wires

Rubber gloves
Distilled water
PPM Tool
Pot for boiling tap water

Steel wool to buff your wires when needed

You want to start out with a clean wide-mouth jar. I use an old pickle jar that I have cleaned and sanitized. It seems to have the perfect height and width ratio for my colloidal copper unit.

Put on some rubber gloves while handling the wires. The oils from your fingers can contaminate the process and it will definitely cause the wires to degrade faster during the process. You will want to bend the wires of 99% pure copper into a loop at the bottom so that it doesn't touch the glass and a straight edge at the top. You will be connecting those to your generator. Fill your clean jar with distilled water. It has to be distilled because it has exactly zero impurities (see photo above). Impurities here also minerals and other things that you would usually want in your water. But for these purposes we don't want to contaminate our product. Place the generator with the copper on top of the jar. The water should not actually touch the generator. As you can see from the pictures, the whole lip of the jar is free of fluid to allow a clean electrical current. Plug in your generator in the light should come on.

Fill a frying pan or saucepan with regular tap water and put your jar inside of it. Place it on a burner and keep the heat on low. This allows for a quicker process and for one reason or another it does help you to get more of a visual on your progress. I feel like when I haven't used the double boiler method my copper never changed color. I use the same technique when making colloidal silver. (Notice that I have a plug in close to my stove...ultra handy. you may always use an extension cord or one of those power strips to get a little closer to the outlet and to have an on and off switch for your generator)

Throughout the process, you will want to pull your wires out and rub them clean with a soft cloth. If they seem to lose their luster, and look more black more often, it is time to buff with steel wool and wipe them clean again after. Keeping your special brew contamination free is always the better way to go. However, if you get behind on it, you can just pour your concoction through a coffee filter at the end. Easy peasy! 

I use a PPM tester to check my progress. With colloidal silver you really don't need more than 10 ppm's but it's okay if it goes over. With colloidal copper I like a little more. I will go up to 25 ppm's with copper. Colloidal silver should have the color of baby shampoo when you finish. Colloidal copper will have more of a light rusty color with pinkish hues. When you are completely finished, you may filter through a coffee filter or simply replace the lid and call it good.

You can use colloidal silver for cuts and scrapes, for deep cleaning the body of viral illness, bacteria and yeast (my method is indigestible), in your home made skin creams and for your pets. Our cat Stewie once had worms, I put a spoonful of silver in the animals water fountain daily for a few days and he started to put weight back on and had no more parasites in his stool! This stuff is marvelous.

Copper is similar to silver except that it doesn't cover the exact same things and it can be kept in plastic whereas silver can only be stored in glass. The shelf life is roughly 4 months. There's a bit of antibacterial and anti fungal to copper but, not so much antiviral. However, if you put it in your ear for an ear infection, it'll clear right up. It is also useful if you get a sty in your eye, have a fungal infection, gray hair or aging problems. You may also use it on your plants to prevent mold. The kind I make is also indigestible and can be used in small portions as a dietary supplement. Only about a teaspoon per day of silver and if the copper is no more than 2 PPMs it can be ingested as well. Although I do encourage getting copper primarily from your diet.

Click the pic for an inexpensive generator:

Click on the pic below for an inexpensive TDS or PPM measuring tool:

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References:

http://strawmanfarm.com/colloidalcopper