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Like other natural products, Redmond Clay benefits different people in different ways. One customer might tell us it cured their ailment completely, while another customer with the same trouble may experience less dramatic improvement. The FDA’s “generally recognized as safe” label seems to be accurate, though–in more than 30 years of interacting with clay customers, we’ve never seen any negative side effect, allergic reaction, or complication brought about by Redmond Clay.

Geologists say Redmond Clay is volcanic ash that fell into a prehistoric sea. The terms bentonite and montmorillonite are regional terms that both refer to the same type of clay in the smectite family, which is the preferred clay for personal use.

A new brand of natural toothpaste has a lot of people talking. Earthpaste is as natural a toothpaste as you’ll ever find, and it uses Redmond Clay as one of its few ingredients.

Earthpaste’s list of ingredients is unique, but the things they left out are just as important. Most brands of toothpaste contain foaming agents like SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), and chemicals like titanium dioxide to make the paste bright white. Not Earthpaste. It isn’t just safe to swallow — each ingredient in Earthpaste has been used to support healthy systems.

The Earthpaste team developed the product for a simple reason:

“Earthpaste began because we couldn’t find a natural toothpaste we loved for our families. We wanted a toothpaste that was as natural as possible, so we started with hydrated Redmond Clay and added Xylitol, essential oils, and Real Salt. And that’s it. Earthpaste is amazingly natural toothpaste.”

Learn more about Earthpaste on their website, and for a limited time, get a 15% discount on your entire order if you order Earthpaste online. (Use coupon code TryEarthpaste.)

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Hydrated Redmond Clay is typically two parts water to one part clay. To prepare your clay, pour one 10-oz. jar of dry clay powder into a quart-size glass jar. Fill the empty 10-oz. container with water and pour it into the jar, then put the lid on the jar and shake vigorously. Add another 10-oz container of water to the mixture, shake it again, and leave it on your counter overnight. By morning, Redmond Clay will be fully hydrated and ready for use, with a consistency similar to mustard.

Kept in an airtight container, hydrated clay will never dry out, separate, or go bad. If your clay seems thick or is left out and begins to dry, simply mix in water to reach the desired consistency. Since temperature extremes don’t affect clay, it can be stored wherever it’s convenient–your fridge, cupboard, car, or purse.

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Clay as a Poultice

Hydrated Redmond Clay can be applied externally as a poultice on cuts, bruises, insect bites, bee stings, boils, rashes, achy joints, acne, and burns. To apply a clay poultice, place a thick layer (¼ to 1 inch thick) over the affected area. Redmond Clay has tremendous drawing power, so it should be washed off before it dries completely– especially when used on burns or sensitive areas such as the face. If the area can be wrapped with cheese cloth or plastic wrap, the clay can be left on overnight without drying out.

Redmond Clay Baths

To enjoy a full-body detox, add 1 to 2 cups of Redmond Clay to a tub of hot water and soak for 20-30 minutes. The remaining clay sediment can be safely washed down the drain. We have never seen it cause problems with the plumbing.

Foot Baths

Many people find that a foot bath with Redmond Clay also is a relaxing way to draw toxins out of the body. For a foot bath, add about 3 tablespoons of Redmond Clay to a pot of water that is as warm as you can stand. Soak your feet for about 30 minutes.

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Drinking Clay Powder

Mix 1-2 teaspoons of Redmond Clay powder with a glass of water or juice. Most people don’t mind the subtle taste or texture, sometimes described as chalky.

Off the Top

You can prepare Redmond Clay water in advance, making it easier to drink daily. Add ¼ cup of clay to a two-quart glass pitcher of water. Stir in the clay, then place the pitcher in the refrigerator. Within a few hours, much of the clay will settle to the bottom of the pitcher, leaving mostly clear water that can be poured off each day as you drink your glass of clay. As the pitcher empties and more sediment ends up in your cup than you care to drink, throw away the remaining sediment, wash the pitcher, and repeat the process. This is a convenient way to drink Redmond Clay, and Raymond Dextreit, author of Our Earth Our Cure, says it provides basically the same benefit as drinking clay mixed with water.

Swallowing Clay Capsules

For people who like the convenience of swallowing pills instead of mixing powder, Redmond Clay is available in vegetarian capsules. Follow the directions on the bottle of Redmond Clay capsules.

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For thousands of years, people have used clay to prevent and treat physical ailments. Members of primitive tribes carried balls of hydrated clay in their packs, adding it to their meals and using it whenever dysentery, food poisoning, and other sicknesses came upon them.

Over time, the practice of using clay internally was forgotten by most cultures, but it was still used in areas near natural clay deposits. One such deposit lies near Redmond, Utah, where farmers in the early 1930s used clay on their animals to treat abrasions, bruises, and infections. Using clay was a normal part of caring for livestock, and seemed to help reduce inflammation and draw out toxins so well that people eventually began using clay for their own scrapes, sprains, bites, and burns.

In 1975, a customer introduced us to a book called Our Earth Our Cure, in which homeopath Raymond Dextreit described the amazing healing properties of clay from France. Dextreit claimed that ingesting the right kind of clay would bring the body into natural balance, and made health claims so bold we dismissed them without much experimentation. We knew Redmond Clay was effective on burns, stings and infections, but the idea of eating it sounded strange, and the benefits he described seemed unlikely.

Later that year, a local health food store called to ask if Redmond Clay would bring the benefits Dextreit had described, and we didn’t have an answer for them. They were anxious to try it, so we had it analyzed by an independent lab who assured us it was harmless if ingested (the FDA would label it “generally recognized as safe”) and gave the health food store some clay to try.

When that group of customers told us Redmond Clay delivered on Dextreit’s claims, we were intrigued. We got permission to sell Redmond Clay for internal use, and in the decades since we’ve heard from thousands of customers who swear by the benefits of Redmond Clay. We’ve also learned a lot about why a strange idea like eating dirt can have such an impact on our health, and we’ll try to share what we’ve learned with you.

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