Volcanic Mineral Water Purifier
Clean water, the way the earth has always made it.
Aurmina is an aqueous solution of twenty-nine individually measured elements, extracted— not synthesized— from a volcanic black mica documented to carry more than forty. Every element is in sulfate form, which is what lets it dissolve and carry a charge. Add it to a pitcher of water and it binds hundreds of contaminants so they clump and settle out; you filter or pour off the clear water—and the minerals stay in, producing one of the purest and most broadly mineralized waters on Earth.
- Over 245 contaminants independently tested
- No membranes, no power, no waste
- Nature's minerals kept — and broadened
Start
Tap water
The burden is dissolved, and invisible
Forty-eight hours
Settled
Out of solution, on the floor of the pitcher
Poured
Clean
Contaminants filtered, minerals kept
About Aurmina
Almost nobody outside Japan has heard of this mineral chemistry.
This aqueous mineral extraction was achieved in 1977 by a pharmacist named Asao Shimanishi, after dedicating nearly fifteen years in devising a method that would do what he had watched rainwater do to a granite boulder: dissolve a little of the stone, and feed a tree growing out of bare rock. The record he left behind — patents, field reports, forty years of results — went untranslated for two generations. Soon after we encountered early fragments of this record, we formed Aurmina, applying the same mineral chemistry to drinking water.
What changed
Nature always cleaned its own water. We just gave it too much to clean.
For nearly all of history, the earth purified its own water — stone, minerals, and time binding contaminants and carrying them out, and keeping the water biologically alive. Think of the pristine springs of antiquity: clear, cold, undisturbed waters that people traveled to and wrote about, sought out for their clarity, their beauty, and their refreshment. That was simply what water was. The system that made it still works — it was just never built for the modern load.
Today, hundreds of thousands of chemicals
are now in commerce — pesticides, solvents, pharmaceuticals, industrial byproducts — almost none of which existed a century ago, and nearly all of which end up in water.
Earth now holds 8 billion people
— from a tiny fraction of that number just two centuries ago, now concentrating waste aonto the same rivers, lakes, and aquifers nature once kept clean for far fewer of us.
In response, many people have adopted reverse osmosis or distillation to protect themselves from the modern burden. But this trades one problem for several others — namely, water that is biologically harmful, water that is wasted, and water that is expensive. Nature's chemistry works better — but it's slow.
Aurmina offers a geological shortcut.
Nature used to have the time to purify water over weeks, seasons, and sometimes years— but it never had to keep pace with the flood of novel compounds and human refuse the modern world now pours in faster than it can break them down. Aurmina concentrates the same mineral chemistry the earth uses to clean water, such that it performs that process in 24 to 48 hours.
Clean shouldn't mean empty
Most purifiers make water clean by making it dead.
Reverse osmosis strips everything out under pressure — the poisons and the minerals alike — and hands you empty, aggressive water. "Aggressive" is literal: water stripped toward zero is chemically hungry, and it pulls minerals back out of whatever it touches — leaching metal from your pipes on the way to the glass, then, as it moves through you, drawing minerals out of the very body it was meant to nourish. And it's aggressive on your wallet: RO needs plumbing, power, and a steady stream of replacement filters, and it sends several gallons down the drain for every gallon it purifies. Aurmina cleans water the way stone and time do — and leaves it alive.
Reverse osmosis & distillation
Empty water
- Forces water through a membrane under pressure
- Strips out the minerals along with the contaminants
- Leaves flat, demineralized, chemically aggressive water
- Needs plumbing, power, filters — and wastes water to make it
The Aurmina way
Living water
- Binds contaminants so they clump and settle out
- Keeps the water's own minerals — and broadens them with a trace that works catalytically
- Redox-balanced — clean without being stripped dead
- Just the mineral, time, and gravity. No membrane, no power, no waste
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
What it removes
Nearly the entire burden, gone.
Independent laboratories put treated water through the same panels an environmental lab would run — the metals, the disinfectants, the pesticides, the industrial solvents. Here is what came back.
245+
contaminants removed or greatly reduced in independent challenge testing.*
147 driven below the limit of detection. 100 more reduced, most by better than ninety percent.
*Testing performed at 24 hours of contact time. Time-series testing shows reductions continue to increase at 48 hours.
- 84Volatile organics
- 57Semivolatiles
- 43Pesticides
- 35Pharmaceuticals & drugs
- 15Herbicides
- 6Fungicides
- 3Heavy metals
- 2Disinfectants
Disinfection byproduct
Trihalomethanes
~100%
all four → non-detect
Pharmaceuticals
All 36 tested
>99.5%
~21 → <0.1 µg/L
Volatile organic compounds
All 84 tested
Non-detect
~19 → <0.5 µg/L at 48h
Herbicide
Glyphosate
98.9%
790 → <9 µg/L
Inorganic
Fluoride
93.7%
7.94 → <0.5 mg/L
Disinfectant
Free chlorine
~100%
2.08 → non-detect
Disinfectant
Chloramine
96.4%
2.75 → <0.10 mg/L
Heavy metal
Lead
98.7%
149.5 → <2 µg/L
Heavy metal
Arsenic
99.1%
56.8 → <0.5 µg/L
Heavy metal
Mercury
91.7%
6.04 → <0.5 µg/L
Pesticide
Atrazine
94.4%
9 → <0.5 µg/L
Industrial solvent
MCHM
99.9%
135 → <0.1 µg/L
...and 230-plus more, from PCBs and phthalates to industrial solvents — every one measured in an accredited lab.
Hormones
Every estrogen on the panel fell.
The compounds most often named in stories about hormones in drinking water — the natural estrogens the body makes, and the synthetic one in oral contraceptives. Eight tested, all reduced between 74 and 97 percent, measured in duplicate against a matched, identically spiked untreated control.
Estrogen
17α-Dihydroequilin
97.0%
87.8 → 2.6 ng/L
Estrogen
Estriol
95.1%
402.5 → 19.8 ng/L
Estrogen
Equilin
85.1%
43.5 → 6.5 ng/L
Estrogen
17β-Estradiol
84.2%
255.0 → 40.4 ng/L
Estrogen
17α-Estradiol
80.4%
274.5 → 53.8 ng/L
Estrogen
Estrone
77.6%
145.0 → 32.5 ng/L
Estrogen
17α-Ethinyl-estradiol
74.4%
329.0 → 84.3 ng/L
Estrogen
Equilenin
73.9%
11.9 → 3.1 ng/L
A different scale. The contaminant results above were measured in micrograms per liter, parts per billion. The hormone panel, run by SGS AXYS, was measured in nanograms per liter: parts per trillion, a thousand times finer. These are far more sensitive measurements, of far smaller amounts. They are also exact — every treated figure is a concentration the instrument actually read, not a result that stopped at the edge of what the method could see, which is why a measured 84 percent here means more than a 99.9 percent above it. Two samples per arm shows an effect this size but cannot carry statistics, and the same panel's androgens and progestins fell far less, between 13 and 68 percent.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Reduction figures describe what was measured in treated water, not an effect on health.
Legal isn't clean
Water can pass every limit on the books and still carry a long list of things you'd rather not drink.
A legal limit isn't a verdict that water is clean. It's a line drawn by regulators — and that line sits where it does for reasons that have little to do with the glass in your hand.
Often decades old
Many federal limits haven't been revisited in a generation, while the number of chemicals in circulation keeps climbing.
Set by what's feasible
Standards are shaped as much by what utilities can afford to remove as by what would be ideal to drink.
Most aren't tested at all
Whole categories — and hundreds of individual contaminants — simply aren't on the list the modern water-treatment industry tests or treats for. What's never measured never counts as a problem.
Aurmina isn't built to the legal line. It's built to take the burden down to where the lab can barely find it.
The science
Removing contaminants is the first act. Restoring the water is the second.
Once the contaminants are bound and settled out, the minerals that removed them remain in solution — and they change what the water fundamentally is. Redox balance is restored: the electron potential that governs how water behaves inside biological chemistry returns to where naturally mineralized water has always sat. Hydration shells — the ordered molecular layers that form around dissolved ions and cellular membranes — become stronger and more organized, the structure of water that has come through stone rather than a membrane. And the capacity for ion exchange returns: the ability to carry minerals in and metabolic waste out, which is what water was always for. Reverse osmosis and distillation produce the opposite — water that is chemically inert, electron-hungry, and structurally flat. Clean by one measure, impoverished by every other.
Aurmina doesn't filter your water so much as condition it, running the same chemistry stone and water do underground — compressed into a teaspoon.
Coagulation & flocculation
The solution’s multivalent ions cancel the charges that keep contaminants suspended. Metals, organics, and fine particles bind together, clump into visible floc, and settle out — carrying the burden to the bottom.
Redox
Redox-active minerals shift the water’s electron balance, so dissolved organic matter oxidizes and breaks apart instead of lingering. The basis of redox-balanced water.
Ion exchange
As the contaminants leave, a broad, balanced trace of minerals is traded in and buffered across the water — what keeps the finished water mineral-alive instead of stripped.
Hydration
The result is water with the structure and mineral personality of a natural spring — smooth, faintly sweet, and alive, not the flat emptiness of stripped water.
Water takes its color from stone.
Water running through rock does not stay the same water. It picks up what the stone will give it and puts down what it can no longer hold — the exchange that turns a mountain river that colour. Aurmina runs the same exchange in a pitcher.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Dr. Paul Rosenfeld, PhD — environmental chemist, after independent laboratory analysis of treated waterOne of the best defenses against the harmful effects of water contamination — superior to distillation and reverse osmosis, because it allows the natural minerals to remain in the water.
Clean water that's still alive.
Choose your supply.
A household of two uses about two bottles a year; a single-person household, about one. Plan ahead and the price per bottle drops sharply.
Single bottle
$149.99
$149.99 / bottle · 32 fl oz
~6 months for two · about a year for one
3-pack
Save 22%$349.99
$116.66 / bottle · 3 × 32 fl oz
~18 months for two · about 3 years for one
- Best value
6-pack
Save 33%$599.99
$99.99 / bottle · 6 × 32 fl oz
~3 years for two · about 6 for one
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