Beauty Tips [Overall, Skin, Hair & Nails]:

Your Inner-Most Cells and Organs are Alkaline-Loving

Beauty Starts on the Inside

At 8.5 pH to 9.5 or 10 pH alkaline ionized water is the perfect drinking water. It will help to neutralize the acidity of the body and slightly alkalize the body. Alkalizing the body will help to ward off infections, cancer and other invaders to the naturally healthy and beautiful state of the body. Alkaline ionized water also assists in the safe removal of toxins from the body. In addition to the health-benefits of alkalizing your body, the negative ORP [oxidation reduction potential] of alkaline ionized water will provide the body with lots of easily absorbable antioxidants. Anti-oxidants are important in order to prevent free-radical damage that would otherwise be caused by oxidation within the body.

Your Outer-Most Cells and Organs are Acid-Loving

Your Skin, Nails and Hair do not like Alkaline-Mineral Deposits

Your exterior cells and organs are much different in their pH requirements than the innermost cells and organs of your body. Most people don't realize that the skin is the largest organ of your body, and it is actually one of your organs of elimination. We don't usually think of skin this way, but sweating is one of the ways our bodies get rid of toxins. As an organ of elimination, the skin is adapted to loving an acidic pH. The hair and nails are related to the skin, and have the same pH needs as the skin does -- which is acididity at the level of about 5.5 pH.

Pores

High alkaline opens pores and acidity closes them. Normal, healthy pores want to be closed tightly. This protects you against invaders [such as poisons, bacteria, viruses, and funguses]. There are occasional reasons to want to use alkaline solutions on the skin and hair. Washing, for instance, to get rid of excess oils and dirt. Read more about that, below. Also, if you have clogged pores [such as pimples or boils] you will want to temporarily open those pores to let the puss out. Whenever you do open your pores, you will want to close them again by using the lowest pH your skin can easily tollerate [which is about a 3.5 - 4 pH].

Soaps are usually alkaline in nature, because alkalinity helps to cut through grease [which is one of the things you're trying to clean with soaps and shampoos]. 3 - 4 pH-level is perfect for neutralizing the skin and hair [which should be about 5.5 pH, but because of alkaline soaps and shampoos you use, the skin and hair are usually found to be way off-balanced]. Acid water is used as a...

Skin Toner and Conditioner: Your acid mantle [outermost layer] of your skin is your body's first line of defense against bacterial, fungal or viral infections. It is important to maintain this acid mantle at about a 5.5 pH. However, because of the nature of soaps [soaps are typically a high alkaline pH in order to emulsify and flush away oils] the acid mantle is often left at too high of a pH after bathing or showering. The consequences of this is a breakdown of the acid mantle, drying out of the skin, and roughness caused by a build-up of alkaline minerals left on the skin. Rinsing with acid water helps to remove the residual alkaline minerals and restore your skin to its perfect 5.5 ph-level.
Hair Rinse: Shampoo is most often found at a high alkaline pH. A high pH solution applied to your hair will open up the hair cuticles [the cuticle is the outermost hair-layer surrounding each hair shaft], and expose it to becoming dry and damaged. It is most beneficial to the health and beauty of your hair to close the hair cuticle . The cuticle opens with a high pH and closes with a low pH. When you rinse with water at a pH of about 3.0 to 4.0, this low pH water combines with the high pH of your newly washed hair and restores it to its ideal pH of about 5.5.
Pre-Pooing: Acid water can also be used to pre-poo [pre-shampoo] your hair [pre-poo by pouring acid water, about 3-4 pH, over the hair and let it sit for a couple of minutes before shampooing. The acidity closes up the hair cuticles, thus preventing the hair shaft from being exposed to and being dried out by the shampoo.] Then after you shampoo [and condition if applicable] give a final rinse to your hair with about a 3-4 pH acid water. This will again close up the hair cuticles and protect your hair from drying out or otherwise becoming damaged later on. Beauty Secret: Hair that has tightly closed cuticles has a smoothe, shiny, silky look to it and doesn't split at the ends.

Natural, Healthy Coolant: Acidic water can be placed in a spray bottle and brought with you to sports or other outdoor events in hot weather. When you set your bottle to mist, this has an air-conditioning effect of cooling off your body. It's healthier for you to use acid water at about a 5.5 pH in your mister, rather than regular tap water, because the goal of misting is to cool yourself, not change the pH of your skin. The proper pH of skin is about 5.5 pH.

Natural Laundry Softener: Add acid water to your final rinse cycle of any load of laundry. This removes residual alkaline minerals from the clothing, brightens up the colors, and softens the laundry naturally, without the use of chemicals.

Plants: Acid water at the pH levels of 5 - 7 pH is great for watering plants. Plants love the purified micro clustered water, and they also love the water to be slightly acidic. Flowering plants tend to like lower acidity than green shade-plants.

Germicidal Water: To kill germs it is best to use acid water at the pH level of 2.5 - 4. The lower the pH the faster the germs are killed, but even at a 4 pH, if you soak something for about a minute it will kill the germs on it. Laboratory testing has proven that exposure to acidic water at a 2.5 pH and lower kills germs on contact.

How to Use Ionized Water: Part 3

Benefits of Drinking Alkaline Ionized Water

Taste: Many people feel that alkaline ionized water tastes better than tap or bottled water.
Filtration: Water ionizers filter chemicals and toxins from water.
Faster Absorption: Water ionization splits large water clusters in half, making them smaller and more easily absorbable by your body. So, the water you drink will hydrate your cells far better than any other water can do.
Detoxifying: Drinking ionized water helps you alkalize your body. It boosts the pH of your drinking water to reverse the effects of the acidic condition of your body [With most people, many toxic acidic wastes sit in the cells for long periods or forever waiting to be eliminated. Ionized water helps to detoxify your body at a cellular level (alkaline pH buffers are essential in getting the acidic toxins out of your cells).
Reverse Aging: Because it helps your cells get rid of their toxins, combats free-radical damage and prevents diseases, your cells are allowed to function properly again way up into your senior years. It doesn't stop aging altogether, but it certainly slows it down and helps to make the aging process a healthier, more vibrant experience.
Preventing and Reversing Disease: Research shows that diseases thrive in an acid environment. The modern fast-food diets we eat, sodas we drink, and stressful lifestyles we live only make that acid environment inside our bodies worse over time. To combat this,drinking alkaline water helps to buffer this acidity and neutralize our bodies, allowing our cells to be cleansed.
Natural Fast-Absorbing Antioxidant Water: Transforms water’s ORP (oxygen reduction potential), and so it becomes an antioxidant.
Slimming Effect: Helps the fat-cell build-up of waste storage to finally be released. Ionized water, by itself, will not make you skinny, but if that's what you're trying to do it will assist you.
Cardio-Vascular Health: Ionized water, with its readily available antioxidants, helps the arteries and veins stay healthy and retain their ability to slough off cholesterol.
Bowels: Helps the bowels to become cleansed and hydrated. Many diseases stem from disfunctional bowels and intestines. Therefore the cleansing effect of the ionized water on the bowels is a tremendous benefit to your overall health.

How do You Get Started Drinking Ionized Water?

Start out at the lowest setting for alkalinity. Drink this for at least 3 days. Your body may go into what’s called a detoxification-phase (detox), because it has a lot of acidic wastes (toxic) which are now able to release from your cells. If you take it kind of slow at first, you’ll feel less discomfort due to this detoxification process. Some symptoms of detoxification are: headaches, increased thirst, pimples, cold or allergy symptoms, aching in the lower back (kidney) area and more. Some people never feel these detox symptoms.
So if you don’t feel any negative effects after 3 days, then move up to the next higher level of alkalinity. With children make every change in pH over a period of months or years [depending on age], and watch them for any reactions whatsoever.
Or, if you had symptoms, but they’re now subsided, move up to the next level.
There’s no need to rush though. Once you reach about the 3^rd level, stop moving up. That’s the ordinary "drinking-level" for alkaline ionized water. However, if you want to try a higher level, that’ fine. If you like the taste, and you don’t feel any negative effects from it after about 3 days, then it’s probably the right level for you.

Are there any things you should be warned about?

You should watch your body for symptoms [aches/pains, allergies/colds, bowel/urinary irregularities, rash, itching, etc.] and immediately reduce your level of ionization for at least a few days [or indefinitely] until you can move up to that level without those symptoms. Your body is most likely detoxing too quickly and those toxins will re-infect you if you release them too quickly.
Children should not drink as high of a level as adults. Their bodies are alkaline already. Give them their water at the lower levels until they are 8-10 or so years old unless they're already exhibiting allergy symptoms [in which case their bodies are not as alkaline as they should be.] However there can be other reasons for allergy symptoms, so if you ever boost your young child's alkaline level over 8.5 pH you should watch their physical reactions and be ready to adjust their pH levels accordingly.

How Much Water Should You Drink Per Day?

You should drink at least 1 ounce of ionized water times half your body weight. That would mean, if you weighed 150 lbs, you’d drink 70 ounces per day (8 or 9 cups) of ionized water or more. However, it is even better if you can drink up closer to one gallon of ionized water per day for optimum results.

Common Questions & Answers About How to Use a Water Ionizer

Question: Can you tell me more about the pH levels you talk about? Answer: There are many levels of alkaline spanning from about 8.5 to about 11.5. You can increase alkalinity some by slowing down the water flow at any level or increasing the level selected.Then when you move up to the next level you can use a faster flow at first then slowing it down for increased alkalinity. Every source water is different, so it's incorrect for me to tell you what pH you'll get at any level without testing it. There is a pH test kit that comes with every ionizer. You can use this to test the ionized water at various levels until you have the idea of what to expect at the different levels at various water flow-rates. After that I suggest monthly testing to make sure your ionizer is performing properly.

Question: How would you recommend someone just learning about this to proceed? Should I start with a portable one to see if it helps me? Answer: I recommend buying a regular water ionizer, because the ORP will be much better than a portable one, but I don't think it's a bad idea at all to start out with a portable one such as the H2go.

Question: How much alkaline water should one drink? Answer: Drink as much as you can. I drink three quarts to a gallon every day. Sometimes I even drink more. Thirst is not always the best test of whether or not you need water. The older a person gets the less they are able to properly judge their own hydration needs. They think they're not thirsty, so they don't drink. I've seen this in both my parents as they grew older. It's easy to get in a habit of dehydration and then forget to drink. A better test would be... if you had any congestion, sinus problems, headache, or constipation at all *** it's time to drink more water! If all you can drink at first is a quart a day, then do that. But try to work up to a bare minimum of 1/2 ounce per pound of body weight as a general rule of thumb. And then drink more if you can, little-by-little, every day till you feel perfect in every way.

Question: You said to go slowly and I’ve heard that from others, too. What initial changes should I try to make? How much time does the body need to get used to the change? Answer: Every body is different, so I always advise people to learn to observe how your body is doing. If it's doing well, then I advise to move up a level. Some people do this fast [every couple of days] and some slow. I was fast, myself, at first, but when I hit level 3 I had some urinary symptoms ...so moved back a level. It actually took me 2 years to go up to level 3. I've heard of people moving up to level 4, but their source water was more neutral than mine and their ionized water at level 4 was about the pH mine is for level 3. So, your source water does have something to do with it...also, your diet has a role in it too.

Question: You say to watch your body for symptoms as you're raising your pH level. What do you mean by symptoms? Answer: Yes, that's right. What I mean by symptoms are anything not right. This could be pains, aches, rashes, congestion, constipation, diareah, colds. When you increase the alkaline of your body you allow toxins to release from your cells and enter the bloodstream. Toxins are best released slowly. Also the various organs in your body need different pH levels. For instance, your skin needs acidic [around 5.5 - 6.5] and your kidneys/urinary tract needs a slightly acidic pH as well. Your body's alkalinity will only raise so much before your acid-loving organs protest the changes. It is a gradual process to alkalize your body, so I suggest... don't rush it

Question: What happens when you boil the ionized water? Answer: When you boil ionized water, it loses its alkalinity and can actually turn acidic. It also loses its ORP. Even heating the water to under boiling point does this.

Question: What happens if you freeze ionized water? Answer: If you freeze ionized water you can't measure the pH and ORP until its thawed. At the point it's thawed enough to test the pH and ORP it has lost a good deal of the pH and ORP [but not all].

Question: What happens if you add lemon, lime, Crystal Lite, Cool-Aid, etc. to ionized water? Answer: Alkaline ionized water will turn acidic if you add any of the above to it, however lemon is supposed to have an "alkaline ash" [which means the byproduct of digestion]. Therefore I always suggest drinking ionized water plain, but of all the drink mixes listed above, the one I suggest for people is a light natural lemon-aid sweetened with Stevia.

Question: Which container is best for storing ionized water? Answer: Glass is best, then after that it's a toss-up between BPA-free hard plastic or insulated medical-grade stainless steel. To get the best retention of pH and ORP, use a container with a screw-on, tight-fitting, rubber-sealed lid and fill it to the brim [with no air-bubble/gap if possible]. I have found jamming jars to store ionized water the best of all containers I've tested so far. I got mine very cheap [$6.00/dozen] at Walmart. I t is also best to use small containers [about 12-16 oz.] rather than huge gallon-sized ones. If you must use gallon-sized jugs, I suggest that every time you open a gallon you split any ionized water you don't think you'll immediately consume [within 30 min.] into smaller containers filled with no air-gap [as described above]. In this way you'll have the benefits of nearly the same pH and ORP as you had when your ionized water was first poured.

Question: I found white small particles sediment on bottom of water bottle when I store the water into jar or bottle for few hours. Is this normal? and what is this? Answer: Yes, this is normal. What it is is that ionization will un-dissolve some of the dissolved calcium that's in your water. When it's un-dissolved it appears as sediment and will sink to the bottom of the glass or stick to the sides of the glass or bottle over time. it is harmless calcium carbonate.

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Your Inner-Most Cells and Organs are Alkaline-Loving

Beauty Starts on the Inside

Your Outer-Most Cells and Organs are Acid-Loving

Your Skin, Nails and Hair do not like Alkaline-Mineral Deposits

How to Use Ionized Water: Part 3

Benefits of Drinking Alkaline Ionized Water

How do You Get Started Drinking Ionized Water?

Are there any things you should be warned about?

How Much Water Should You Drink Per Day?

Common Questions & Answers About How to Use a Water Ionizer

Question: Can you tell me more about the pH levels you talk about?

Question: How would you recommend someone just learning about this to proceed? Should I start with a portable one to see if it helps me?

Question: How much alkaline water should one drink?

Question: You said to go slowly and I’ve heard that from others, too. What initial changes should I try to make? How much time does the body need to get used to the change?

Question: You say to watch your body for symptoms as you're raising your pH level. What do you mean by symptoms?

Question: What happens when you boil the ionized water?

Question: What happens if you freeze ionized water?

Question: What happens if you add lemon, lime, Crystal Lite, Cool-Aid, etc. to ionized water?

Question: Which container is best for storing ionized water?

Question: I found white small particles sediment on bottom of water bottle when I store the water into jar or bottle for few hours. Is this normal? and what is this?

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