Our new shilajit resin is stored in miron glass. Not everyone is familiar with this amazing material so we thought it would be useful to share with you some details.
At the end of this post we have a couple questions for you, if you’d be so kind to answer.
Although it looks black from the outside, miron glass is a violet glass. If you look at it with a light source behind it, you’ll be able to see this.
While it has only come into modern consciousness recently, first being produced in our modern age back in 1995, evidence suggests that violet glass was used by the ancient Egyptians as well as medieval alchemists to protect special herbs and materials.
When it comes to herbs there are a few natural things that can degrade their quality; light, air and heat.
For these reasons we recommend you keep your herbs sealed in their package and in a dark and cool cabinet. For most, there is no reason to refrigerate but a regular shelf will suffice. Our black bags help to keep the light out.
The most important thing for you to do is to keep the air out as much as possible. In some of the herbs we even add in an oxygen absorber to help with this.
While amber or cobalt glass (as is currently used in our pine pollen tinctures) are better than clear glass, violet glass is even better.
Clear glass lets in the entire light spectrum. Cobalt and amber glass block some of it.
Miron glass only allows in the violet color, as well as UV and infrared light.
What does this mean? Testing shows that it can dramatically improve the shelf life and potency of various products.
You can see what just two months of storage in the different jars did to these chives. Which one would you want to use?
Not only will these taste and smell better, but that also means more of the medicinal properties and nutrition is preserved.
Another test showed what seven months did to a cherry tomato.
As previously mentioned our new shilajit resin comes housed in miron glass. As an immortal substance this is likely one thing that doesn’t actually need it but we decided to go with it anyway because it also looks very cool.
So here’s the couple of questions for you. You can leave your answers in the comments below.
Would you be more or less likely to buy our herbs if more items came in miron glass? You’ve read about the benefits. However the drawbacks would be that this glass is not cheap, and shipping might be slightly more difficult/expensive too.
On the plus side, it’s great to re-use these jars when we have them.
Secondly, if we didn’t package most of products in violet glass, but we made available containers of different sizes to you to buy, which you could put your herbs in there yourself upon arrival, would that be of interested to you?
We appreciate your response.
Sources: Miron glass pictures and info from here.
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jose monge says
I think its a golf idea to keep this product protected with the violet glass to conserve purity. Byway where is your Shilajit comes from?
Jerry says
Would be cool if you offered this. Maybe throw in some free ones as an incentive to buy your package deals
Kim Rangel says
I would vote for keeping costs down (packaging and shipping) and having the Miron glass available to your customers to purchase in addition to the herbs. Thanks for all you’ll are doing to provide us healthy alternatives. God bless you!
FRANK says
I’d love to have miron glass available in different sizes to store herbs. That way I could have say 4 or 5 packets in one container for ease of use. Go forth with this idea you guys have. You’ll have a lot of customers who’ll buy more product once they see how the potency of the herbs is retained and most likely enhanced with the miron glass.
Philippe Pageau-Bonin says
This is very interesting news. I appreciate your attention to details. To some people, little details are not worht the hassle. In my school of thought, the addition of every little details can create a sum bigger than its parts. This is one of the many reasons I switched to you as my herb supplier.
I would definitely be interested in violet glass containers.
On a side note, please fix your Paypal issues. I haven’t been able to order from you for a while, and am missing some stuff!
Philippe Pageau-Bonin says
*detail
*worth
*every little detail
*in a while
I type too fast for my own good. Talk about attention to detail.
Natalie says
Yes i will buy some miron glass jars.
Gabriel Franklin says
Thanks for this information.
Those tests are really amazing!
Gabriel Franklin says
I would go with the second option of the herbs packaged as till now and buying the jar as needed.
I have in the past purchased items in glass jars and I don’t recall that shipping was an expensive component.
I’m would also assume that shipping costs could be reduced when purchasing a few jars at a time as opposed to individually.
David Budd says
I would rather have the option of buying the Miron glass seperately and add the herbs to them as required. It might be too expensive if the herbs are already packaged and housed in the jars prior to shipment. Its a tough question because I would really prefer to receive them already jarred but the cost is my concern.
Very Respectfully,
David
Lloyd Swift says
Folks,
Your presentation was nicely done and makes a compelling case to incorporate these containers into your product line!
I think that this seems to be a substantial upgrade for your product. For business purposes (and the environment) I think the optimum solution is for you to make containers available to your customers for separate purchase in sizes appropriate to your products. Offer them at a good price–you make some profit and the customer gets a durable right-sized container.
The advantages are you do not have to adjust your marketing procedures so are able to continue to package products as you are currently doing thereby not incurring any additional transition costs, you (and the customer) do not experience increased postage costs for each purchase. This assumes your current product containers are shipped more economically than bottles, and the customer retains potency of his/her purchases for a longer time–WIN/WIN!