Clay History Page

The health and beauty benefits of clay can be tracked back to the dawn of civilization. The modern use of the healing and cosmetic attributes of certain clays, is just a new version of an ancient all-in-one product. Over all this time, this incredible clay only requires a little clean water to bring back to life again.

Antique documents (in most cases, thousands of years old), show that the Egyptian physicians used clay for internal therapies against inflammations and ulcers, and they also applied hot mire from the Nile to treat rheumatic deformations. Its antiseptic properties were widely known, and embalmers used clay in mummification processes.

In Greece, the famous Hypocrites didn’t ignore its properties and he used it for external treatments to heal or at least to relieve the pain. Furthermore, Pliny “The Elder” a Roman officer and encyclopedist devoted a chapter of his work NATURAL HISTORY to this subject. Even the Gospel mentions Jesus using the benefits of clay, calling it “The Angel of Earth”. In the Holy Scriptures, it is described as “Lemnos Earth”.

Through the centuries, Avicena, Pliny, Dioscorides, Galeno, Ghandi and others made public the therapeutic properties of clay. It was its application that made Abbot Sebastian Kneipp well known when in the 19^th century, after using clay on animals, especially on horses with foot and mouth disease, started using it widely on human beings.

Sebastian Kneipp’s methods spread throughout Europe and it had a great number of famous followers such as Luis Kline, Adolf Just, Julious Stumpt in Germany and Dextreit in France.

Nowadays, clay far from falling into disuse, re-emerges for an educated public which is eager for soft, efficient and natural therapies. Everybody’s going green.

The people of South America have utilized this virgin clay for hundreds of years to both invigorate and help cleanse impurities from their skin. Deep in the foothills of Argentina’s Mendoza Mountains is a sedimentary green clay material formed through thousands of years of natural development and filtration.

Terrageena International extracts this material in its primitive form taking great care to maintain its purity. With modern processing, Terrageena’s facial clay reaches you with the natural biochemical components completely intact.

Besides Terrageena’s naturally superior mineral and chemical composition and relationship rich in mineral salts, iron, magnesium, sulfur, zinc, phosphorus and copper, trace elements and geological materials including silicates, feldspar, quartz and mica are also included through centuries of ground water pushing fossils, plants and animals to the surface. The clay is completely dehydrated over time and free from any contaminating agents due to the lack of humidity.

Through the discovery of the “Big Bang Theory”, in which all things come from an original small super-concentrated body 12-14 billion years ago, modern-day scientists agree that we are indeed from this earth, literally. There is a part of our earth in every one of us and we are part of it, regenerating into other things over time. Every application of this wonderful clay is restoring microscopic particles of the essence we are made from.

Now in the 21^st Century, the Health Department of Mendoza in Argentina, authorizes and strictly inspects the laboratory quality processing of this precious Green Smectite clay. Terrageena’s CPC Laboratorio is authorized by the National Drug, Food and Medical Technical Administration. This relationship ensures the purity, cleanliness and natural quality with technology and strict quality controls.

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