Natron (or Natrun)

Natron.

Kemetics will be familiar with this as a cleaner using for achieving a state of w'ab or 'ritual purity'. Many eclectic practitioners today use Natron/Natrun for ritual, washing, and a wide variety of cleaning/cleansing purposes.

It was most commonly harvested from Wadi El Natrun or Natron Valley, in Egypt; but could also be found in many other places such as Chalastra, in the Macedonian region of Greece; Lake Magadi, Kenya; Lake Natron, Tanzania; and western Africa, from the lakebed of Lake Chad.

Natron as it occurs naturally is a mixture of salts which can be collected from dried up lake beds. It cannot be imported to the US, so those of us who use it are left to make it ourselves or purchase it from others who make it. The most common recipe found is half baking soda half salt, which I find to be rather abysmally simple and unbalanced compared to the actual ingredients and ratios by weight of proper Natron. So I've decided to offer for sale the Natron/Natrun that I prepare myself.

The Natron/Natrun I offer is, by weight:

73%_Sodium Carbonate Decahydrate (lab quality)

17%_Sodium Bicarbonate (food grade)

5%_Sodium Chloride (sourced from naturally harvested, unadulterated sea salt)

4%_Sodium Sulfate (lab quality)

1%_Water-soluble minerals (from naturally harvested mountain spring water)

The water soluble minerals are to help close the gap between naturally occurring natron as would be collected from a dried lake bed (the waters of which would have deposited minerals in the natron) and the purified versions of the different constituents I can obtain for producing it.

I'll have it listed up for sale in the next couple days, in both a finely ground version and in the natural chunks which it crystalizes into.