Good info, Brother Lead. We use that same Royal Oaks brand too. Feeds our body (Grilling), feeds the garden (Ashes from grill), and cleans our water (Your method). Like T-Pain rapped: "Cause all I do is win (Win), win (Win), win And if you going in put your hands in the air, make 'em stay there"
Great! And thank you. Did you know that you can add a pinch to a quarter cup of water and drink it if you have the stomach flu or food poisoning? You will be better in 15 minutes or less. We use it in the hospital for over doses of alcohol or drug overdoses. That's why I keep it around and I'm a nurse.
In Poland and all east European countrys, that charcoal is base in our household. To treat all problems with stomach. Clean your system. Is old and good medicine
Activated charcoal: Crush charcoal to a powder -1oz lemon juice (as an acid) to 3 oz H2O -8oz of charcoal powder Mix them together cover for at least 24 hrs -Use Coffee filter/coffee strainer to strain the liquid from paste Then put paste on cookie sheet Oven 225° In oven ~2 hrs or until dry Put into an air proof jar right away! Thank you! 🙏
Thank you so much. I’m in Senegal and just paid an arm and a leg to have some shipped to me from the US while wood charcoal is widely and cheaply available here and now you’ve shown us how easy it is to make. Peace and blessings to you always.
The activation process for creating activated charcoal often involves the use of strong chemicals or physical processes. The most common methods include: Chemical Activation: Typically, chemicals such as zinc chloride (ZnCl₂), potassium hydroxide (KOH), or phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) are used. These chemicals interact with the carbon compound and help create a porous structure by eroding away some of the material. Physical Activation: This involves two steps, where the first is to pyrolyze the carbon compound at high temperatures, followed by a second process where the charcoal is exposed to oxidizing gases, such as steam or carbon dioxide at high temperatures. This helps to open up and create a porous structure in the charcoal. Regarding the use of lemon juice in RU-vid videos, it's important to understand that lemon juice is not an effective activation chemical compared to the aforementioned methods. Lemon juice is acidic (due to citric acid) and can react with certain metals or minerals, but its ability to create a porous structure in the charcoal is limited. It's possible that some use lemon juice as an environmentally friendly alternative to clean or modify the surface of charcoal, but this would not result in the same type of activated charcoal as produced through industrial processes. if you want a diy process for i go to codys lab
Watch them triple the price of Royal Oak Charcoal next week or so!!! 😂 My coffee grinder does a wonderful job grinding charcoal into powder!!! Nice video, thanks for sharing!
@@markness6756 I would imagine you could use a blender with a small type of container (like a Ninja Blender or a blender with smaller attachments). I know what I'm doing this weekend!!!
Oh I’m definitely going to try. How about a tutorial on the uses of activated charcoal and how to use it? That would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Activated charcoal can be used for many things. Finely powdered AC can be used as toothpaste, facial and body scrubs, it can be ingested to rid your body of toxins, such as poisonings, over doses of drugs including medical drugs such as aspirin Tylenol, it's used widely in hospitals as well, it can help with stomach ailments as well, it pulls toxins from your body and gets rid of them. You can also let it sit out in a room because it will clear the air, such as odors, and some poisonous air chemicals. Main thing to remember is to always keep it air tight/sealed because it absorbs quickly. Left unopened it will lose its effectiveness. It is also used to clean water, here's a simple way to do it boil water then in a container/bucket put hole in center, put another bucket under it, put cotton cloth, or coffee filters, layer as follows sand more cloth/filter, then activated charcoal another cloth, pebbles, then rocks, you can pour dirty water on it and it will filter it. Pebbles and rocks clear big debris, charcoal pulls toxins and bacteria, sand filters any other particles left behind, and cotton cloth/filter keeps sand and charcoal from falling into clean water, you can then drink, and cook with clean water. There's so many benefits. You can buy soaps, shampoos, facial scrubs, toothpaste and pills over the counter at most stores as well. Most store bought filtration systems use charcoal in their filters. You can purchase activated charcoal bags to leave in your house/car to remove odors and other toxins, and like this video shows you can make your own. For me I keep baking soda, vinegars, lemon/lime juice, rubbing alcohol, iodine, and charcoal in my home at all times as well as other items. Just in case. Hope this helped to explain some of the uses and reasons to keep it around. 🙂
I LOVED this video. You got to the point, explained everything in detail but not redundant, and made the steps simple and easy to follow. I sincerely wish more youtube content creators would provide information the way you do. Thank you
Thank you for the informative video. I have one suggestion for improvement. Don't crush the charcoal lumps on a floor. The main reason to get all natural is to avoid the additives and unfiltered things that can sneak in there. When crushing the charcoal on a floor that everyone has been walking on you are basically just turning natural food grade charcoal into the cheaper contaminated charcoal. My suggestion would be to use a clean cotton cloth or a food grade tarp to lay out on the floor and just clean it between uses.
@user-wy2pe1jh4g People laugh at food safety until they fall victim to it. People walk on animal waste outdoors and who knows what else and then drag it into the garage. If you don't mind mixing that into your food and supplements then go for it, but your lack of concern for its importance does not mitigate the truth of the matter.
They make you pay a convience fee. Make you feel like old fashioned is so hard but its not. Of course everything takes time but people act like they dont have 10 minutes. Everything gotta be now now now.
@@Homeside301 that's very true but I've always been into making stuff from scratch. It's so funny how they make you think you have to go overseas and spend crazy amounts of money. And I have plenty of it in the pantry 😂🤣
Brother, you have no idea how much I appreciate and value this information. I thought it was a complicated process to activate the charcoal which is amazing for health. Activated Charcoal Activated charcoal may not be the most pleasant thing to ingest but it is well worth the effort. This negatively charged element will go through your entire digestive tract pulling out anything that is positively charged such as heavy metals, toxins, poisons and radiation. Do not use this if you are constipated as it could increase symptoms. It's important to drink more water when using charcoal because as it draws out heavy metals it becomes harder and if you are dehydrated, your next bowel movement will be like passing solid metal and believe me it's not pleasant, I know because I did it. 1 tblsp every other day on an empty stomach is what I used. I lost weight and my digestive and intestinal health improved considerably.
Ok, the calm music in the background is a genius touch. I usually get stressed out watching preparedness videos. This made me feel much more relaxed, which helped me focus. Thanks!
Thankyou for your step by step guide on making activated charcoal. I use activated charcoal in my goldfish pond to help filter out all the impurities in the water and it makes the water crystal clear as well. I did your same principle, but on a bit larger scale to make enough charcoal for my 250 gallon pond. God bless you, my friend!!
Cool! Thanks for the video! I learned something today. Just an FYI. You can make your own charcoal if you had to in an emergency. It works best on a very small scale, but it is still good knowledge to have. I carry an Altoids tin in my camping gear. I used a roofing nail to pound a small hole into the Altoid tin's lid. I can put small pieces of wood in there. When camping, I can put small pieces of wood in the tin and throw it into a fire closed. That will make charcoal when the smoke stops coming from the tin of the Altoid container. One can use a single wall metal container to do the same thing. Stanley makes some good lightweight, fairly cheap camping pots that would work well for doing that on a slightly larger scale.
@@xmobile. 1. If you're going to make your own charcoal, you can use a clean, unused paint can, available at most hardware or paint stores. You make charcoal by heating the wood in a low-or-zero oxygen atmosphere. When the wood is hot enough that it should be burning but there's no air or oxygen to use, the wood starts casting off everything that's not carbon. Eventually, all that is left is the carbon. Fill the can with wood pieces from a tree -- don't use stuff from wood pallets or cast off pieces from a construction site. As he said, those can be coated with chemicals you do not want to have in your charcoal. Put the wood in the can and seal it, make a small hole in the lid with a nail, and keep it in the fire until no more smoke or flame comes out. Let the fire die and the can cool down, and you'll have something like the charcoal he is using. (NOTE: DO NOT USE CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES! THOSE ARE MADE USING WAXES AND OTHER BINDERS TO FORM INTO THAT SHAPE!) After grinding it into a powder, I would use strong (cleaning, or multi-purpose) vinegar or the strongest food-safe acid you can buy to mix with the carbon powder, rather than some fruit juice. (I once read a process that used battery acid; while that might activate the charcoal it will also leave byproducts that you don't want in your product.) Mix the powder and the vinegar together in a food-safe SEALABLE container. Set it aside for a few days, giving it a swirl every so often to make sure all of the carbon gets expose to the acid. Filter the results (doesn't have to be completely dry), then put it into the paint container you used earlier and again, put into a hot fire for a few hours, then let cool naturally. The acid will make small pits in the individual grains of carbon powder -- the small pits increases the surface area of the carbon grains, making it more effective (i.e., "activates" it) at grabbing and filtering out impurities. This is NOT a substitute for medicinal-grade activated charcoal you should have for poison control, but it should be good enough for filtering water, etc. 2. RE: using it to make lye -- as hobbyist soap-maker, you will get better results by going to the hardware store and buying lye (sodium hydroxide) in crystal form. You'll find it with the drain cleaners. You can make the amount of liquid lye on demand to the strength you need -- ESSENTIAL for successful soap making. Otherwise you might wind up with a gloppy mess that won't harden, and either burns when you use it (too much lye or too strong) or simply doesn't clean effectively (not enough lye). If you really, *really* want to make your own lye, get the right type of ashes. Use the ashes from hardwoods to make sodium hydroxide, which will let you make bar soap; and use the ashes from soft woods to make potassium hydroxide, which will let you make liquid soaps. Don't mix the two type of ashes or the two types of lye you produce. Store the lye in a glass container with a good lid, then store that in ANOTHER container that is clearly marked with poison control stickers and warnings in red to BE CAREFUL. People kept lye around because before the invention of chlorine bleach, it was the only product that could be used to clean sheets and clothing stained with "biological materials" (think dysentery and being too weak to make it to the outhouse before your cramps hit) reliably. History is rife with stories about people blinded when they were kids because lye got splashed into their eyes. Get several books on soap making (check out your public library first) and read up on making a simple 3-ingredient soap (water, fat, and lye) and FOLLOW ALL THE SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS! Let's be careful out there.
Jim Carroll Thank you. I had no idea I could use my softwood ashes for liquid soap. I can’t usually get any hardwood. This is a real help, thanks. I’ve got my safety equipment for making these things at home.
@@keithfillinger3182, ok, but any type of wood, or paper products should be able to create a charcoal product, … but hard woods are preferred, because of the higher btu rate, if you are going to reuse for the carbon functions of cooking, plus certain types of wood/fibrous products may give off unwanted odors, … ie marijuana, … lmbo, … the idea is to wind up with a heat purified carbon product that can be used to purify, the air, or a water resource, … passed through the product, without accumulations of algae, or such contaminants, …
You are a Totally Awesome Dude!! Thanks for looking out for us. You are such a great teacher and very knowledgeable. We love you over here Lead. Peace and Blessings always💕
I want to thank you Sir!!! You don't know what it means to many of us, you teaching us these things. Just know that you are appreciated. I can't wait to make this
True American keep educating folks and the blessings will come back tenfold. Using a coffee grinder to grind the charcoal down if you ad potassium nitrate you make gunpowder. Therefore you can get multiple uses out of this. Great job God bless stay safe.
Thank you. I first saw charcoal made by heating up wood inside an airtight container. Your idea is brilliant. Now all I need to know is how to make a water filter with it!
Thanks for posting this video. So many home remedies are being lost…I can sense your excitement while doing this, it is quite an inspiration. GOD Bless!
For it to be properly activated it would have to be pyrolyzed at 800 C° in an Argon atmosphere. The lemon juice method does not increase surface area. This is just charcoal powder. It does not have the same chemical properties as activated charcoal, which is extremely important to know, especially when using it for medicinal purposes.
@@juliuscaesar8801 Yeah well I'm more concerned with people following his tutorial and dying from food poisoning because their "medicine" is only 1% as effective as it should be.
I agree with you 100% and although good intentions are meant the information presented concerns me on many levels and if someone truly wants to use activated charcoal for health reasons they should cosider buying sterile medical grade activated charcoal from a realiable source or manufacturer. I actually was surprised by using lemon juice as the acid to open the pours of the charcoal.I also quetion if that is stong enough to open the pours of the charcoal. if left in warm temperatiures for two days as he stated then bacteria could form from the lemon juice. Charcoal is also a lower grade of coal which in many cases is made from wood off cuts and even possibly shipping skids. These coals are produced at a lower temperature and may also contain by products such as bug sprays applied to the skids to stop infestation. Bio char would be a better product to make and use rather than charcoal as the coal is produced at a higher temperature and the gases are burned off as well. In repects to the leaving the charcoal in the stove untl it cools down tells me that it has already absorbed many things from the the air. I mean no disrespect to anyone here but I actually researched this as people should when it comes to well intended advice that may effect your health.
Lead Farmer!!! Appreciate all the information (wealth) that you GIVE AWAY, without stipulation! You puttin’ it down and all people have to do is stop by your video and pick up the information! THANK YOU!!!
Man, thank you. I was looking for an eyes on way to make the product and what other gems lay hidden just below the surface! I'm prepping too and just started out. So far so good though and in 3 months time, my lil piece of heaven will be ready for total off grid living. My family, with the exception of my sons, think I'm crazy. The signs are everywhere, so I'm rather being prepared and armed too. As of this comment, I'm your latest subscriber. I'm teaching anyone who will listen, the skills I've acquired so far. Thank you once again and keep on keeping on. Many blessings to you.
THIS IS IT, so glad to see and hear your simple yet wisely way of sharing your knowledge without any narcissistic swollen attitude of so many 'professionels' out there, THANK YOU from my heart and soul!
That's what is do great about him too. He is just as excited as we are to try new stuff like a kid discovering something new! No room for pride when you're like that!
I am impressed with your ingenuity at crushing the charcoal outdoors! I was not looking forward to using my nice granite mortar and pestle. Thank you for the idea.
What a blessing to the rest of us, thank you. God, bless him and his family... You are a servant with a beautiful heart, let it fill the earth as you lead you serve. That's a man God can use.
Wow thanks for this little brother. That's what I tell ppl you are...one of my brothers lol. Thanks for showing this because you're right, that was easy. I will be doing this & will let you know the outcome...for real.
Very nice my friend. If lemon juice is not a option running water thru ash over and over creates Lye. Reduce that down to a third, then same process. Few items and a fire. You never know what is in store for the future, get your knowledge now. Thank you. Love your calm nature and great info. Keep it up
You will end up with nothing more than charcoal powder that taste like lemon. This recipe doesn't work in many ways. This BBQ charcoal is made from all sort of scraps like skids with paint and wood treatments and glue = not good at all ! Make your own in a fire pit using logs. But the guy is right. Lemon juice does change charcoal: It makes it worst ! In fact you would be better off using this powder as is. There is no easy way to make activated charcoal. You must heat it in a furnace at 800-900 celcius while running steam trought it. Doing so will release a high quantity of highly flammable gaz. Do your research.
Aloha from Hawaii Brother! This can be used in so many ways! This can be put into vegetable capsules to be used for medicinal purposes as well. Great video full of useful information. KEEP LEARNING EVERYTHING YOU CAN BECAUSE KNOWLEGE IS POWER THAT NOBODY CAN TAKE AWAY FROM YOU! Take care one another! God bless!
Man oh man you’re a great inspiration! Seeing how easy it is to do some of the stuff makes me feel more confident to do them myself! I just love how you go step by step for us. Many blessings to you my brother! Because of you I started to grow veggies in 5 gallon buckets! Thank you thank you!
I have just ran across this video. I have heard of this but never saw someone make it. I’m going to have to try this. I was doing it the expensive way. I was buying charcoal in capsules at Walmart. This will save me money. Thank you sir for your information. I really appreciate it.
Great video man. I love the content lately. Right up my alley preparedness is essential in these crazy times. I’m fa sho about make some activated charcoal.
Great video! I will definitely try this, this is way better than buying activated charcoal because you know whats in your product. 100% Thank you Lead Fam :D
What's in that "hardwood" charcoal? Bits and pieces of pallets, etc. If you really want to know what's in what you're putting in your body, make it from scratch! Find your own hardwood, reduce it to charcoal, go from there.
This is fantastic! I've stocked up on activated charcoal from the aquarium section of Walmart, but now that I know I can make it myself, I'll stock up on the components. Thanks, LF. ❤
I was taught that the charcoal had to be heated up to 600 degrees to consider it activated....thanks for your input towards better health..My mother always heated it in a oil-less cast iron pan on the stove, checking the temp by making a small pile of charcoal and insert a temp gauge...just a thought...
Just viewed your Water 💦💧 filtering video; and now know. I didn't want to gool it, do very much appreciate your Link that I followed which you had sent to someone else. Thank You.
@@leadfarmer73 Good morning 🌅. What I meant was that I had searched through your responses to others, which gave me the knowledge of exactly what the charcoal is used for. I found the video by you for purifying 🌊 water, and it enlightened me as to what the charcoal ( at least one thing) is used for. I had no idea before I viewed the water purifying video, thus my first comment about not wanting to sound ignorant! I have shared these videos and very much appreciate you and your creativity and strength in continuing to teach and share your know-hows---which are extensive! As for the 'gool' word, that's just what I called that big search engine, and it meant that I preferred to find out what charcoal is used for by searching through your comments from and to others. I hope this clears it up. Many thanks and many Blessings Lead.
@@lala.barquet7160 I love you for that. I just want everybody to see how fascinating this simple skill is. I don’t want folks to just listen to me. I’m so glad that we have so many knowledgeable people here in the GreenHouse Lounge family. We are always helping one another and sharing good useful information ❤️🌹👊🏽
I knew that I was missing something. I didn't know what I was missing, but I just had a feeling about it. Thanks so much for your help. It all makes sense now. I was trying other ways people did it, but it never worked right. No one ever said, well all the videos I've seen anyway, to use pure lemon juice. When you said that, it was like a light turned on, and I knew that is what I was missing. Thanks for your video on this, I loved it.
Please remember 8 ounces is 1 cup by measure and an ounce is a shy 3 tablespoons. This is FABULOUS !!!! Thank you Thank you!!! 'But' I think a kitchen scale [like so many healthcare programs offer (free ish) in their product catalogs] would provide the best and most consistent results.
A little medical additive. I loved this post One tsp is 5ml Three tsp is 15ml One ounce is 30ml or cc Thank you, this warmed my heart ❤💙💜 we are all one big family
Hey Brother Lead .. I use the same charcoal in my garden I have 3 bags stored for emergency cooking too .. Great information ..end product looking good ....Thank you Much Respect
firstly, thank you. you demonstrated the steps very clearly. what I like to do is watch a multitude of videos on whatever I am trying to learn to observe different techniques as well . and download the video if I can for future reference. the very first video I watched of yours was the one of you cutting open a few pomegranates from some trees you grew. I've watched your videos every since🌺
Thank you for this. Never seen your channel before. I always wanted to learn how to do this. Easy lesson well taught. Thanks! Be interesting to see a home made filtering system with that activated charcoal used. But if you have a decent micro filter system you can just put the filtered water through the charcoal.
Great video! I came to Thailand about 7 years ago, and they sell this in the 7-Elevens here for $1US for 12 capsules. I learned to use this within my first month due to getting used to the bacteria in the food and water. It's a MUST have when travelling to new countries, as well as anytime you feel a sickness coming on, for hangovers (don't abuse it!), and for weekly cleansing of the body/blood. They use coconut husks here for their charcoal, which is pretty awesome, but you can search on how to create your own charcoal (instead of buying it from companies). Both obviously work, but it's good to learn the very basics too. I'll have to search your channel to see if you create the charcoal from scratch. Thanks again.
The only problem is that this is NOT activated charcoal (don't believe everything everyone tells you - do your research). This is just powdered charcoal - which may be ok for filtering water, but basically has no mecidinal use otherwise. i highly suggest any questions, should look into @fotoshopro comments, since she clearly has some chemical based knowledge/ background & is 100% correct across the board. To rely on something that may seem to be valid will only bite you in the backend