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I just finished testing this out and NO, I would NEVER recommend it! If I could have given a ZERO star review, I would have. To those reviewers that do recommend it, I ask this: how did you test it? If all you do is use it then you have proved nothing except that you believe it works for you - and that may be totally due to the placebo effect for all anyone knows. Now, the placebo effect is valuable, but it proves neither purity of the product nor efficacy. Do not allow yourselves to be duped, your health is too important. 1 - It is absolutely NOT 100% pure as stated - that is not even chemically possible, the very best are 99.7-99.9% pure. 2 - It costs about 2-3 times as much as other brands like NOW and Swanson's of similar but slightly better quality. Save your money. It is wrong to make claims that are fraudulent, though companies do it all the time. I check things out for myself but most people do not even know how and they are being duped. This is unethical in the extreme! Here's how to test all MSM on the market, friends. Anyone can do it and you don't need to be a chemist: A - dissolve 1t of the stuff in a small amount of hot water - enough to make it all dissolve. Don't swirl just stir gently if needed so the liquid doesn't travel up the sides of the glass. Use a clear glass custard cup or similar so you can see it. B - Set it on your kitchen counter or somewhere to let all the water evaporate, it takes a couple of days. C - Results: GOOD Quality: If this is good MSM it will form large needle-shaped crystals stretching across the entire bottom of the container. They will be mostly clear and will sparkle in the light because they are properly formed, with planes and angles. If you use distilled water, your crystals will be fabulous because the water is so pure. I used well water, no fluoride, no chlorine. This did not form any sizeable crystals at all, the ones in the bottom were 1-2mm across and the rest were dendritic, traveling up the sides of the glass - that's not pure sulfur! This was actually worse than the Swanson's that I tested it against! [Read: Swanson's is both better and cheaper!] POOR quality: Lousy MSM will be either contaminated or improperly made, or likely both. What you will then see instead of well formed clear crystals are short, fat, cloudy crystals of irregular shape, or none at all. In each case of the poor MSM I have tested there was also some sort of powdery looking residue that grew up the sides of the container and over the rim and down the other side. It grew as long as there was still water to evaporate, then stopped when the water was all gone. Very creepy. Does anyone know what that is? It is not disclosed, the label on this Raw Power brand says 100% pure right on the container! It is not. Do you really want to be eating this unknown and undisclosed sludge? I don't! This effect was so strong that in this particular case I got minute 1-2mm crystals, which was a first since I usually get a few 3-6mm chunky ones along with this effect. I also got one third of the glass container covered in dendritic crystals, like ice crystals growing on glass - very pretty, but that is not pure sulfur. According to my simple crystal growing experiment - which is a correct method to use in determining the quality of MSM - this is the worst brand on the market! Save your money, buy either NOW or Swansons which are both a little better - both had this creeping, powdery sludge effect but gave larger crystals as well, or better yet buy one of the higher end brands. Google The Sulfur Study or The Cellular Matrix Study or naturodoc.com's SuperSulfur, or 7 Lights brand, I've tested 7 Lights and it's excellent. Molly Malone, 6/3/13