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Placing your first order? Use the code FIRST10 for 10% off on the checkout page.
Please note, our cut off time for same day shipping during the current heatwave will be 2pm and not our usual 3.30pm
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Why You Can't Make Liposomal Nutrients At Home
The following information comes from the web site of the suppliers of our Liposomal products.
There are many articles and websites that give recipes for making home made 'liposomal' products using ultrasonic jewellery cleaners and lecithin. Unfortunately is it not that simple, and we do not think homemade products work. Here's why.
- To make liposomes one requires very high quality phosphatidylcholine (PC) which is a molecule dervied from lecithin**. Home brews are made with pure lecithin that contain very low amounts of phosphatidylcholine. Lipolife liposomals have a minimum of 200mg PC per 5ml.
- In order to produce liposomes a machine is required that is powerful enough to obtain small enough nano-sized particles to be effective. Homemade liposomals will not produce liposomes that are small enough to be effective with very little of the nutrient actually being encapsulated. Lipolife liposomals have a particle (liposome) size distribution of between 100nm and 200nm.
- Liposomes are unstable, this is one of the biggest challenges in the process. We use stabilised liposomes.
- Liposomes, Vitamin C, Glutathione, etc are extremely unstable in the presence of oxygen. We go to great lengths to produce our products in the absence of oxygen.
** Lecithin is an emulsifier usually derived from soya beans, though with most of our Liposomal range it's derived with sunflower oil instead. However even soya lecithin does not contain any soya proteins, and does not normally cause problems for people who have an intolerance of soya.
