Calcium Bentonite

Montana Bentonite, LLC

2206 Bossard Road, Anaconda, MT 59711

PO Box 4242 Butte, MT 59702-4242

406-494-5004

Picture: Fresh Clay in Hands- as harvested calcium bentonite in Jane's hands

All-Natural Products Store

and Information Resource

Welcome- to our Keep It Simple Site! for:

Living Clay, Healing Clay

All-Natural Animal Care and Organic Soil Health

"The Mineral of a Thousand Uses"

Our philosophy center:

"You know when you've achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." by Antoine de Saint Exupery (a long time ago)

No gimmicks and pushy sales hype, no chemical formulators, no extracts and no list of weird ingredients. No "holler boy" shouting junk into your ears and no "beauty girl" inferring that some magic product is what arranged her genes to make her appearance.

Nothing but simple natural products and straight information: natural colloidal chelated mineral clay, herbally processed and FDA G.R.A.S. without expensive and long-term supply requirement for effective treatment: special and unique products such as talc-free baby powder, talc-free deodorant and foot powder and natural acne treatment

This is what it's all about:

Calcium Bentonite: The Natural Solution!

Get it from the source: Montana Bentonite.

Calcium Bentonite is an organic, naturally-chelated, colloidal mineral clay. Clay is formed by hydro-thermic conversion of volcanic ash and silt. This bentonite clay body, like most if not all smectite clays, originated 60 to 65 million years ago. To become calcium bentonite, this deposit was formed by volcanic ash flow which was then heated and pressure-cooked for geologic time under fresh water conditions. The fresh water environment guided this clay to the predominant calcium anionic (negatively-charged) formation, not sodium, which is of salt-water conditions. This is a flint clay, which further describes the geologic origin. Yes, this is essentially the same mineral clay as montmorillonite- the French-named equivalent, members of the smectite clay family.

Typical formula for "high-charge" calcium bentonite (which is termed Cheto type):

(Ca): Ca_0.3Al_1.6Mg_0.3Si₄O₁₀(OH )_2.

Much information about calcium bentonite is available in scientific study, in literature and on the internet for many, many years. Some current information about bentonites is valid and some is not. Aboriginal and native peoples used clay before our recorded history. Calcium bentonite is called Fullers Earth and The Clay of a Thousand Uses from previous and current uses. Calcium Bentonite has come to be called Southern Bentonite, but our deposit is almost at the 46th Parallel- not very southern. There are also calcium bentonite deposits in Canada.

Perhaps most important to understand is that calcium bentonite is not the same as sodium bentonite. They have different cellular structure and different chemical composition. They behave differently. Sodium bentonite swells up in water and calcium bentonite is minimally swelling. This is one of many important differences and it is important to be clear in this understanding. We do not recommend using sodium bentonites for human health care and animal care applications because they are not intended for and so have not been analyzed and tested for these. The markedly different swelling behavior of the clay is only one important difference. The chemical composition and cellular structure are also significantly different.

This Calcium Bentonite is a healing clay and a living clay. It is well known as a material naturally beneficial to humans, animals and nature and is studied today for diseases treatments, nanotechnology and origin of life research.

Some of the attributes of this natural clay:

anti-infective
anti-bacterial
non-comedigenic
anti-toxin
pH neutral: non-acidic

Our products are helpful for such things as:

all-natural acne treatment

kills and pulls out bacterias from acne and reduces excess skin oil
pulls infection from cuts and burns- relieves the pain immediately!

talc-free baby powder

reducing warts and moles
reducing and softening callouses
foundation under makeup for oil build-up prevention
conditioning and softening rough skin (feet especially!)
strengthening fingernails
ingrown toenails
talc-free bedsore treatment
talc-free deodorant for underarms, feet, shoes and crotch powder
infected earring holes
worker wounds (concrete, wood infections)
custom medicinal poultices

natural toxins removal
natural digestive cleansing and detoxification with bio-available trace minerals for system restoration

While many clays are touted for internal cleansing and detoxification, we do not recommend this practice in any form of "quick fix". To begin with, our bodies are not like mechanical switches that can be turned off or on and they do not respond well to being subjected to such harsh treatment. While a digestive system may over time of consuming the wrong stuff accumulate fats and poorly-digested materials that can and do contain toxins, heavy metals, preservatives and the like, to just crash the digestive system and expect it to restart all fresh and new is not going to happen and is not safe to do. Depletion of normal and beneficial enzymes and electrolytes will be damaging and potentially dangerous to a living body. Now- yes, our clay also adsorbs toxins and other such foreign bodies to it and will carry these to expulsion from the body. So- an ongoing program of regular small-dose clay consumption is reasonable. It is also capable of providing trace minerals that a body may be digestively and metabolically uptaking. This is all well and good within the context of good balanced diet with fiber content and calorie control. We offer bentonite capsules to assist you with your digestive health.

We have developed and continue development of products for all-natural health care, all-natural Personal Care, all-natural Pets and Livestock Care, Organic Home and Garden soil products and also offer powdered clay for both private and practitioner treatments and custom poultices. Industrial and commercial interests please be invited to contact me directly: Kevin Johnson at 406-494-5004 or kevinj@montanabentonite.com for direct communications on how we can address and meet your needs and interests. We look forward to working with you.

We are thankful everyday for being allowed to bring this God-given natural resource to so many beneficial applications.

In natural form, Calcium bentonite is not a nanomaterial. It is capable of nano characterization and applications after mechanical and/or chemical processing of shearing to single-cell thickness. Scientific investigations of nanoparticles in dietary products and particle toxicology are forefront in modern concerns of interactions with such tiny, tiny entities. Current scientific and industrial literature contain studies and reports on medical mineralogy, mineralization in cellular structures, nano-composites and more.

Interesting bit: With individual bentonite platelets measuring between 1/5000" and 1/50,000",

1 gram of bentonite,

if separated into individual platelets,

would cover over 800 square meters

(area of about a football field!)

We are here to bring you the best Living and Healing Clay in the World!

We are proud to join the medical, dermatological, naturopathic and homeopathic communities and pledge to serve you with honesty, integrity and candor. Calcium bentonite speaks for itself with positive results in all-natural health care care of skin and digestion for both humans and animals. Natural health care for us people and natural health care for pet and livestock are more important every day as we learn about the effects of artificial chemicals on our foods and our environment.

Natural Animal Health

Calcium bentonite is widely used as a natural feed supplement aiding in both digestion and nutrition uptake of essential minerals and trace minerals and as a simple and effective poultice and powder for wounds and infection treatment. Calcium bentonite kills and pulls infections and bacterias from the skin to start and aid the healing process: natural animal digestive health and natural animal wound care. Calcium bentonite is accepted by the FDA is an organic feed additive for livestock.

Natural Soil Health

Montana Bentonite also offers a related mineral ashen silt for an organic soil amendment. This contains very similar plant nutrients, minerals and trace minerals without the clay binding property in a small particle form to also aid in moisture retntion in sandy or gravelly soils. It is also a pH buffer, beneficial to sodic or alkaline soils.

Our clay and ashen-silt products are simply good for plants and for the environment. We offer packaged products for potted plants and for gardens having nutrient, trace mineral and moisture-retention benefits.

Our raw material clay is used frequemtly for pond and ditch linings ( as well as other water-proofing applications) because it is good for the fish and the water quality as well as making a very effective retention liner.

We warranty all of our products without reservation. If you do not achieve the results you wanted or were expecting please let us know and we'll give you your money back. Please see our Store Policies page.

Further- we are also pleased to participate with the FDA and the (relatively) new Adverse Event Reporting (AER) Regulations. We will be installing a link button on this website for rapid AER connection. We will be inserting relevant news articles and links in this site as well as developing our blog and live chat for assistance, information sharing and communications.

Thank you for finding us and for participating with us. We look forward to being your supplier for these specialty products as well as to being a resource tool and information provider in the all-natural health community.