Colloidal Silver Generator -- Homemade Silver

Colloidal silver generators for homemade colloidal silver are great, but only if used properly.  In order to make colloidal silver where the majority of the silver content of the liquid, 85% or more, is ionized and suspended in water, you have to be very careful.  In this article, I'll detail the pros and cons of using your own colloidal silver generator, what to watch out for, and how the process works.  That way you'll be able to decide if you want to buy your own generator, or whether you'd just like to buy premade liquids from one of the big dealers.  Either way, it's still going to be a bit expensive.  Buying a generator and the silver rods or silver thread you'll need isn't terribly cheap.  And while making your own silver in bulk is cheaper than buying individual bottles, there's something nice about the high quality standards that the bigger companies employ.  I don't want to discourage you from buying a colloidal silver generator, I just want you to know what you're getting yourself into.

Colloidal silver is generated by electrifying silver rods or silver thread in pure water.  In order to adequately strip the silver away from the source and suspend it in the liquid, the electric current must be low voltage.  This causes silver to slowly strip away from the electrified source, ionizing it and suspending it in water.  An ion is just a particle that has either a positive or a negative electrical charge.  As this happens however, the water slowly becomes more conductive and the process begins to speed up.  This causes larger particles of silver to break away from the source, these particles not being ionized, but rather, just chunks of silver floating around in the liquid.  They don't have the electrical charge, and therefore aren't true silver ions.  Once the silver source is depleted, the silver ions will remain suspended and dissolved in the liquid.  In order to be a true colloidal silver however, at least 85% of the silver in the liquid must be ionized.  That's where the difficulty comes in.

The Tyndall effect is pictured above.  Basically the Tyndall effect is what happens when very small particles that are suspended in a liquid scatter a beam of light that's passed through it.  Most generally a laser is used because the beam of light is powerful and heightens the Tyndall effect.  When colloidal silver is made correctly, the particles are ionized, meaning that they're actually diluted in the water.  When colloidal silver is made incorrectly, many particles will remain undiluted inside the solution and will show up in some measure with the Tyndall effect, though it isn't recommended that a person use this method for measuring the quality of their colloidal silver solution unless they're skilled and experienced in using the Tyndall effect.  As you'll see in the next section, generation your own colloidal silver with a home generator might give you inconsistent results, where some of the particles escape undiluted into the solution.

Below are the biggest cons of using your own colloidal silver generator, and also what many people have done in order to overcome the obstacle.

1. You Never Really Know the Strength or Concentration

• The biggest con of using your own colloidal silver generator is that you never really know what you're getting. Without more expensive equipment, you can't really tell the concentration of the liquid, the parts per million, or ppm, of the ionized silver in the water. Even if you always use the recommended amount of silver in the correct amount of pure water, slight variations can cause differences in the amount of actual ionized silver, verses regular, unionized silver particles in the liquid. In order to overcome this problem, many people use the Tyndall Effect to figure out how much undiluted silver remains in the solution. We talked about that above, and as a person makes more and more colloidal silver using a home generator, they generally get more experienced and skilled at using the Tyndall effect to help measure the quality of their colloidal silver.

2. Particle Size

• One of the things that many of the top distributors of colloidal silver boast is a very small particle size. Their methods of ionization create very small particles of ionized silver in the water solution, which is beneficial because the smaller the particle size, the more easily absorbed and utilized by the body. In order to overcome this, many people making their own colloidal silver have begun adding very small amounts of hydrogen peroxide to their silver solutions. The hydrogen peroxide has been shown to greatly increase the efficacy of the colloidal silver solution. The hydrogen peroxide breaks apart and reduces the size of the ionized silver particles. But don't use too much hydrogen peroxide. The ratio is only 1:1000 of hydrogen peroxide to colloidal silver.
  

Hopefully now you understand the dangers and pitfalls of making your own colloidal silver, and also how to overcome them.  With the right tools and knowhow, using your own colloidal silver generator is a great idea.  As long as you do it correctly, colloidal silver is an amazing substance, able to greatly boost the immune system and fight against disease.  But if made incorrectly, it can lead to some major problems, the largest of which is the skin condition argyria, where the undiluted silver in the solution actually lodges in the skin turning it grayish blue.  The ionized silver doesn't cause the problem, it's the undiluted silver particles.  So make sure you use the colloidal silver generator correctly.  Best of luck!