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And this is using Jim Humble's video directions - I have a friend who lives about 30 miles away who has been on CDS since Thanksgiving and wanted to start making his own. So I said I'd be happy to show him. This is what I experienced and learned... Maybe it will be of benefit to you guys, too.

I had my first "training" session yesterday – and I learned a lot. I prepared a handout for him to keep - but the training was at my friend's, house – he is, by education, a chiropractor, although working as a trainer now – so, not dumb, even if he is more than a little woo-woo <G>.


He blithely informed me that they had all the measuring cups and stuff there, and glass cooking utensils, etc. And he had a kitchen scale that weighed in grams, so not to worry. Not to worry, not to worry. Well, I got there, and the only measuring cups were a set of plastic dry measure cups and one single wet measure cup, which it took him a while to find. They didn't have any pyrex baking dishes or sauce pans, and the gram scale measured in whole grams, not 10th of grams, and my gram scale …. The one that measured in 100ths tended to turn off too early (to conserve battery usage, I'm assuming!) And then we have my friend, who wants things in the "readers digest condensed version" and to play "mad scientist" at the same time, LOL-

So, first we made the citric acid – no plastic spoons anywhere – finally found a wooden one, and I used the handle to stir the batch as it dissolved. Got it in the containers using the one wet measuring cup with the spout – which I then rinsed out and dried carefully.

Then we went on to make the MMS. First there was all the fiddling with getting the measurement right. I do like the way Mark shows it in the training video. Measure the container and tare it (or write down the container weight to subtract out of the water weight). Measure the weight of the water in a container, calculate 28% of that water weight, subtract it from the weight (on paper), to get a new desired water weight, ladle out the water from the container until the water left matches the new desired water weight, (if you were unable to tare it, you're going to have to calculate around the container weight) then add back in sodium chlorite flakes until you get back to the original weight of the water. That way everything is relative to the actual weight of the water and if the *&%#** scale measures differently every time you take a container on or off, you're still measuring in the same container which has not been moved from the scale.

So, then we poured it into a glass measuring bowl (oven safe, he promised) - and put it on the hot plate on very low to dissolve the flakes. This time, I turned the wooden spoon around and mixed with the bowl of it, and darn if the MMS didn't start to turn dark yellow. It was activating as I heated it. I thought, shoot, there's something on the spoon (although it had been through the dishwasher) or there was some citric acid left in the measuring cup. So I poured out that batch and we started over. This time my friend got to do the measuring and so on, so that was good. And he got to see what constitutes a failure, so THAT was good. The second batch did just fine. And the making of the CDS was a breeze – He was very careful to keep the temp of the water the transmittal jar was sitting in to 150, and we did the full 2 hrs. So, 3.5 hours after arriving, I was ready to drive back home. He has MMS, citric acid, CDS, and a bottle of skin solution and knows he can call on me to come up and watch him do his next batch, and he's going to get the implements he needs to complete his kit.

Now that I know some people just won't have what they need in their kitchen (who wudda thunk? I have 8 pyrex type measuring cups of various sizes and pyrex cake pans and a pyrex sauce pan!) I will say that WalMart has a really nice digital timer that goes up to 9 hours, less than 10 bucks (can't remember exactly) which I use to time my CDS doses, as well as the 2 hours for making the CDS.