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Cheapest Alkaline Water Ever

May 27th, 2008

Alkaline water can be so expensive and I’m delighted that you can easily create your own alkalized water that is practically free!

Baking soda is the most alkaline ‘food’ and you simply add a teaspoon to a litre (2 pints) and shake it up. At a dollar or two for a large box it’s definitely the cheapest way to make your own alkaline water. I’ve also heard that sea salt is good too and it’s also highly alkaline.

But start off slow. Don’t do what I did - I immediately put a whole teaspoon and felt sick. After that I started off at a quarter of a teaspoon and slowly built up. After the first day I didn’t even notice the taste anymore and now water tastes funny to me without it.

I just have a cheap basic water filter to take out the chlorine and other baddies and then add the baking soda. Easy!

What are your other options?

“The Ultimate Baking Powder” - $30 month Dr Robert Young (author of the pH Miracle) now sells what he calls “The Ultimate Baking Powder”. It costs US$30. A friend of mine uses this and it lasts her 1 month.

“Young pHorever™ pHour Salts™
by pH Miracle® is the “ultimate” baking soda: A combination of four powerful carbonate salts (sodium bicarbonate, magnesium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, and calcium bicarbonate) that help maintain the alkaline design of human, plant, and animal organisms. These salts are naturally occurring in all fluids of the body. Specifically, they can aid in the reduction of acidity in the lymphatic, circulatory, and gastro-intestinal systems.

pHour Salts™ may be used daily to increase the alkalinity of any food or drink.”

Bottled Water - $2 bottle If I’m out and about, I’ll buy a mineral water or a bottle of Evian or Fiji water as they’re the most alkaline out of the bottled waters.

Teabag - $50 month There is also a ‘teabag’ you can put in water, shake it up and 5 minutes later your water is alkalized and has magnesium and calcium in it. It’s from a company called Xooma and from memory costs about US$50 per person a month. Not the cheapest option but it’s one of those MLM programs so if you get a heap of people to sign up you’ll get yours for free and maybe make some money.

Filters - $500 - $10,000 You can spend literally thousands of dollars on water filters / ionizers that will alkalize water. The Rolls Royce version would have to be the Wellness water filters which originated in Japan. (When I did my research years ago I discovered that the Japanese take their water very seriously - makes sense when you think about it. Check out their site, the before and after pictures of the water are incredible.) You can get a range of water filters from a simple convenient filter for the kitchen tap which is about $1,000 to a complete home system $10,000.

The water from the Wellness filter tastes beautifully sweet and my friends who have the complete home kits say they can really notice the difference in the shower and even in the laundry. I know it’s a good idea for the shower, I’ve had many people say their hair completely changes when washed in alkaline water but I wasn’t ready to shell out that much money. I did buy the little travel water bottle and loved it. I was very disappointed when they stopped selling it.

The Nikken Pi-Mag water filters are pretty good too and are a lot cheaper at around $500. The water tasted good but I’m not so keen on having the huge thing that sits taking up so much room on the kitchen bench. A former flatmate of mine had one & I nicknamed it R2D2. Apart from the size it was also a bit annoying to have to keep topping it up.

So there you go, if you’d like to try it out for yourself & spend your cash on other things pop down to the store and buy yourself some Baking Soda.