How to create the Idea Labs product 'Magnoil' for less than a tenth of the price compared to IdeaLabs, whilst maintaining the exact same USP/ Food Grade quality.
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Hi all, I have made a pretty amazing discovery.
The company IdeaLabs, sell's a topical magnesium supplement called 'Magnoil'. It is 20% DMSO (due to solubility issues of magnesium) and 80% water - this supplement offers the benefits of 100% absorption, compared to oral products, which means that your body can utilise the magnesium better and since it is dissolved in DMSO, it allows magnesium to be brought into the cell, and to be utilised!
The cost of this supplement is $29.99 - which is a fair price for, when they use the magnesium salt called 'Magnesium Piconate', which is quite an exotic, expensive form of magnesium.
However, due to supply issues, they have started to use magnesium sulfate, in some batches rather than piconate.
Magnesium Sulfate is the chemical name for Epsom salts - aka bath salts - a dirt cheap product for baths.
Epsom salts/ magnesium sulfate / bath salts are sold commonly at any health store, and since they get absorbed transdermally, all of them are sold as food grade quality.
The next thing you need is DMSO and water - food/ USP grade DMSO is really easy to come by, and can be ordered online and any bottled water should be pure.
Therefore, for the cost of a few dollars for epsom salts and maybe 20 - 30 dollars for a lot of DMSO, you can create dozens bottles of the product 'Magnoil' for maybe 2 dollars or less a bottle, compared to 30 dollars, while still maintaining the same purity as IdeaLabs.
I hope this helps some people.
Just dissolve 6g of Magnesium Sulfate, in 6.6g of DMSO (the equivalent of 6ml of DMSO) and then 24g of water, to create the product. Heat carefully in the microwave to dissolve.
25 drops or a ml should provide 200mg of magnesium.
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Does the switch to sulfate effect absorption? Any comparisons to oral magnesium bicarb (this is what I make and is dirt cheap also).
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@DkJoe2 Since it is dissolved in DMSO, it will have 100% bioavailability when applied topically. Furthermore, DMSO will carry the magnesium directly into the cells, without the need for a magnesium ion transporter, increasing absorption furthermore.
If oral magnesium bicarbonate works for you, I don't think there is much difference; magnesium bicarb has an oral bioavailability of 50% whereas this product has a 100% bioavailability; 50% bioavailability is pretty good as well. I personally don't use magnesium, but I have brewed this product, and it really easily dissolved and it fully absorbed when applied topically.
Read more about Magnoil here:
https://idealabs.ecwid.com/Magnoil-p104372479
