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We know many of our customers by name because they are here all the time. Some come several times a week. Through the years we have received many requests for edible and external clays for human use. Although we had used our clay for poultices, clarifying wine and supplementing our animal feed we dismissed the idea of eating or bathing in it or selling it to others for that purpose. After finding it listed in specialized foods for birds and other animals we started some in-depth research.
There is an abundance of material from the scientific community and we have found good solid scientific evidence that these clays are not only beneficial to humans, but may be essential for human health.
A German scientist (Julius Stumpf) once described the bacteriacidal properties of clay: "The curative properties of clay are founded in its special physical characteristics, above all in the distribution of its minute particles. Many of the individual clay particles are smaller than some bacteria. If infected mucous membranes are more or less flooded with clay, the bacteria are completely surrounded by clay particles and are thus separated from their source of nourishment and become imbedded in the inorgani