Many if not most products sold and labeled colloidal silver are actually ionic silver. How can that be true you ask?
(a) The primary reason in our opinion is that consumers are looking for colloidal silver, therefore; (b) The manufacturer may be a small entity with very limited knowledge of the science and is either mistaken in their assumption that they are making a true colloid, or they are actually being deceptive and do know they are making only an ionic solution. (c) Another reason that manufacturers use terms like hydrosol and oligodynamic when the product they are describing is actually ionic, is that colloidal silver has suffered attacks on its public perception, primarily by industries that perceive colloid silver as a financial threat to their interests. So some manufactures use terms that attempt to separate their product from negative impressions and to set themselves apart from other products in some manner, even if it only via primarily words that are either not technically correct or paint an impression of sound scientific terminology which it is not. (d) The main reason that there is
