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Calcium is the stuff you want to take internally, not the sodium, which is different:A Bentonite is a Bentonite, right? Wrong. But this particular clay is a Calcium Montmorillonite, which is structurally different from other very similar clays that are called Bentonite, Fuller's Earth, AKaolinite,or Smectite. Some of the other clays have active properties for various uses, and may in fact produce some health benefits, but many of them were studied and found to be suboptimal. In fact, some were useless or even hazardous. Marketers and money Today, the healing or living clay market has grown as more and more people seek natural, complementary health and nutrition alternatives. And many people are very excited about clay for internal and external health uses. Unfortunately, the market has been filled with many cheap substitutes to Calcium Bentonite. For example, whenever you see the term, `Bentonite" you can usually count on it being Sodium Bentonite. Why would a company sell Sodium Bentonite, when all the health and nutrition studies were done on Calcium Bentonite/ Calcium Montmorillonite? The answer is simple: a. Sodium Bentonite is cheaper because it is mined in large strip mining operations and used in industrial and commercial applications such as oil drilling, paints, and pond liners. b. As explained above nutraceutical and cosmeceutical companies make money off the consumer's need to generalize in order to comprehend the product...most folks just don't have the time or make the time to understand the difference. People naturally think Bentonite is Bentonite. The market is calling all of these products "Bentonite", and trying to undercut each other's prices by substituting Calcium Bentonite with Sodium Bentonite. But this is a big mistake, because Sodium Bentonite is not generally suitable for ingestion.