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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Nikko says
I’m confused here. You state the miron glass allows the UV to penetrate. I know from my experience with photographs that UV light causes prints to fade. Wouldn’t this be a bad thing for the herbs as well?
gerald says
Miron glass sounds interesting but I don’t think I saw prices
Brad says
I currently transfer my herbs to amber glass containers as soon
as I receive them! After all you go thru to insure purity and quality.
Why would anyone want to undermine there investment and the great
potential of your LOST EMPIRE HERBS by storing them in PLASTIC???
Please bring on the miron glass! Thank you for all your
inspiration and hard work, making all our lives so much better.
Bill Boyd says
Yes
Shelby says
Okay, so I definitely would sell the Miron Glass jars. That would be my vote. Just reading about them in your blog post, I wanted to buy them before you said you were thinking of selling them. It’s unrelated, but the concept is similar with something another Nootropics site does for a different product. You could sell the herbs and tell them if it’s their first time ordering that herb to check a box and then it adds a small fee and sends it in the violet container and then after that they can always just buy it in the other containers. This does create a different issue on fulfillment though, I suppose. ;) Great blog post and great questions!
Ola says
I’ll prefer buying d glad from plus you continue to ship the herbs as you currently does.
Eliseo says
Definitely make it available to buy separate or offer to sell with a certain amount with glass.
Kerry says
Sounds like there is a consensus building for making the bottles available for sale independent of the herb purchase. That would certainly be my preference so that the bottles can just be reused.
Thanks for such quality products!
taz says
I think as others are thinking… i see the benefits very clearly. But not everyone will the benefit of the m iron glass.
I agree the herb need protection.. and the m iron products should be made available for individuals to purchase. I also think that the choice should be given to the consumer to receive their purchased products in bag or bottle.. realizing the cost of shipping the product will be affected. Definitely glass is heavier than bag.. and more protection of the product being shipped will be noted.
as always thanks for allowing your consumers a chance to help in your marketing . .
Rich G. says
I’d prefer the herbs to come as they currently are…being that they are not affected by light in the current packaging and they are consumed quickly at my house, so they don’t sit around. I pay a little more for a great product, I’d hate to see it go up more. Being able to buy the jars as an additional option would be cool, and sounds like you’d have plenty of takers.