Manufacturing

How Bleaching Earth is Manufactured

Bleaching earth is usually quarry-mined from deposits that can range anywhere from 100 feet to several thousand feet. This depends on the health and vitality of the land it is processed from and how far a producer will go to find the right clay with the proper characteristics and consistency.

It is then mined from the earth and brought out into the sun to remove excess water and moisture to make it easier to work with. Final transformation begins after the initial drying. It gets processed (ground) with huge hydraulic crushers and thereafter goes through the final process of micronization, or "fine granulating".

This is usually done with the assistance of sophisticated and expensive granulators. Upon completion of this final process it gets inspected by a quality control team and is sent off for consumer use.