Yes, distilled water is the trick. The silver will form compounds with minerals in the water, which may reduce effectiveness as well as likely greatly increasing the risk of argia (blue tinged skin, usually starting with the moons of the nails). So you want to get the minerals out first.
Our water comes from a remote (as in, there’s nothing on it above us) mountain creek that is mostly fed by a spring in winter. It’s only considered mildly hard water and is great for drinking, but we distill it (use and recommend Mini Classic CT if it fits the budget and you want to distill your own) before making CS. In fact, distilled once it just barely met the low conductivity specs suggested by SilverGen. We may try distilling it twice in the future to bring that down further, though our CS has turned out great—some clear and some with a slight yellow tinge, estimated around 20 ppm based on conductivity change from distilled water before turning it into CS. Making your own is definitely the way to go; it’s crazy expensive to buy, but barely more expensive than water to make. We had used it as a disinfectant spray, gargle, etc, but never drank much until recently. Gargling/swishing with it a few times a day for a day or two seems to take care of any toothe/gum issues that start to hurt. We’ve drank up to 1 cup per day over the last bit after getting fed up with a flu going around here that just didn’t want to let got. Wish we’d done so sooner, as everyone felt better quickly. I’m guessing it is best to drink it on an empty stomach, which is what we aimed to do. Best regards, Walter From: Jaxi Schulz [mailto:jaxi.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Sun, Jan. 18, 2015 19:15 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>"Cloudy" Question Use distilled water ... Jaxi On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Kenneth <pli...@yahoo.com <mailto:pli...@yahoo.com> > wrote: I use a Big Berkey Water Filter System to purify my water to use in my Silver Puppy, can anyone give me any insight as to why my "CS" would be cloudy? Perhaps I need to use distilled water? I'm not using city water, as I have my own well, and although my water isn't extremely hard, I'm thinking it's either the water or the CS Generator, there can't be anything else. ~ Kenneth
