Episode 2226: Luxury Sustainable Water: Discover the Story Behind Splendor Volcanic Artesian Water
In this episode, we deep dive into the extraordinary origins of Splendor Volcanic Artesian Water, a brand that goes far beyond standard hydration.
Sourced from the pristine foothills of the Andes Mountains near the Cotopaxi Volcano and La Maná, Ecuador, this water's journey begins as pure snow and rainfall filtering slowly for centuries through deep layers of volcanic basalt, lava rock, and ancient mineral strata.
Discovered in a region historically revered by ancient civilizations for its unique energetic properties, the underground artesian aquifer brings something truly rare to the table.
In this episode, we explore what makes Splendor completely unique, from being globally recognized as the only bottled water known to naturally contain trace amounts of colloidal gold and silver—with the silver acting as a natural preservative that eliminates the need for harsh ozone treatments—to its "Super Low Minerality" Total Dissolved Solids level of roughly 31 mg/L that guarantees a silky, clean, and smooth finish with zero metallic aftertaste and balanced trace electrolytes for cellular hydration.
Looking forward, listeners can get excited about what is next for the brand, including its dedication to ecological responsibility through pioneering 100% recycled plastic (rPET) bottles in Latin America alongside light-filtering indigo glass packaging designed to protect water integrity from UV degradation, plus its Rainforest Alliance certification that directs a percentage of gross sales back into local environmental conservation and community development programs in Ecuador.
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Splendor Volcanic Artesian Water (formerly known as Health2O / Splendor by Health2O) is an ultra-premium volcanic artesian mineral water available in still and sparkling varieties.
Sourced from the pristine foothills of the Andes Mountains near the Cotopaxi Volcano and La Maná, Ecuador, it holds global recognition as the only bottled water naturally containing trace amounts of colloidal gold and colloidal silver.
With a Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) level of roughly 31 mg/L, it falls squarely into the "Super Low Minerality" category. Furthermore, it features signature dark indigo-blue glass and eco-friendly rPET packaging designed specifically to protect water integrity from UV degradation.
The journey of Splendor Water begins as pure snow and rainfall on the peak of the Cotopaxi Volcano, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world.
The water filters down slowly over centuries through deep layers of volcanic basalt, lava rock, and ancient mineral strata.
It was discovered in the rainforest region of La Maná, Ecuador—an area historically revered by ancient civilizations for its unique energetic properties—during soil excavations that also revealed historical stone artifacts.
It is bottled directly at the source to ensure that nothing is artificially added, removed, or chemically altered during packaging.
Splendor is widely celebrated by water sommeliers and the Fine Water Society for its exceptional structure and taste profile.
As the water traverses volcanic rock beds, it naturally acquires microscopic trace amounts of gold and silver.
The naturally occurring silver acts as a natural preservative, eliminating the need for harsh ozone treatments.
A near-zero heavy mineral load guarantees a silky, clean, and smooth finish on the palate with zero metallic aftertaste.
Its natural isotonic properties deliver a balanced ratio of essential trace electrolytes—including calcium, potassium, magnesium, and bicarbonates—for optimal cellular hydration.
Splendor maintains a strong commitment t
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wonderful Sarah from slender Water.
Speaker 2: Hey Sarah, Hey, as, how are you. I'm tcited to
be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'm doing pretty good. How are
you doing?
Speaker 2: I am good.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of travel, very busy summer, a
lot of exciting things happening.
Speaker 2: So it's great to talk to you.
Speaker 3: I know I've been trying to connect for a little
while now, So thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah as, yes, absolutely, I mean thank you and your team.
You guys sent me a beautiful care package that was
happily waiting for me when I got home, so I
was super excited about that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You're more than welcome. We have Mark glad you enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Our Yes, great water, great products. I want to go
back to the beginning. What inspired you to bring this
unique mineral rich experience.
Speaker 3: It is really an intricate story, one that over at
coffee one day, I'll probably tell you that the longer
version of the promise, I'll keep the sum racist things,
because it's really it's really a magical story.
Speaker 2: I was first introduced to Splendor water. It pre existed me.
Speaker 3: So while I you know, I'm the leader of the
US and families deeply involved in Founders, we do always
like to credit the original founder that was back in
the eighties. His name was Gio Majeorge, and he actually
that the very beginnings of the story where that he
had a daughter. He lived in Lamana, Ecuador, on those
lands where the Spring of Splendor now is today, and then.
Speaker 2: His daughter was actually greatly ill.
Speaker 3: And he had a dream to bathe her in the
springs on his land and give her this water for
several days on end, and after about ten days she
ended up getting better.
Speaker 2: She still lives today to tell this story. And so
his original mission was really to get what became Flundor.
Speaker 3: Out to the world and to help the world experience
what he really believed this water had, which was healing
effects and great properties.
Speaker 2: So our mission have always been to.
Speaker 3: Continue that, but I've produced to slender water actually through
a group of functional doctors and integrated doctors traditionally trained
and then also use a lot of bio energetic work
in their practices in Latin America and throughout Spain. My
mother is Colombian, so we were down in Colombia for
Christmas of twenty fourteen. My grandmother at the time, my
maternal grandmother at the time, had Alzheimer's and was no
longer really in her body inhabiting it. So we've come
together as a family to sort of let her know
we were at peace and sort of incouraging her soul
if he willed to pass on.
Speaker 2: And one of our close family friends.
Speaker 3: Who was in this group of functional doctors that at
the time had invested in Splendor to continue its growth
throughout Latin America. After that original founder led this ceremony
and he talked about a lot of the different elements
of the earth, the water, ether fire, that were all
sort of part of one. And the representation for water
in that ceremony was a blue bottle of Splendor, and
so sarendipitously, my father had come down also for that ceremony,
just by my parents being divorced for fifteen years at
this point, and he sort of got into so he said,
what is this, you know, what is this blue bottle?
And she told me the story, and our good friend
Jorge the doctor, said, well, keep one in your pocket
for tonight, you know, when we go out to see
all the Christmas lights, and I'll tell you everything then.
Speaker 2: And so kind of history from there.
Speaker 3: My father fell in loved the story, as did I,
and it was a really kind of unique blend of
my family, both maternal and paternal, coming together, and started helping.
Speaker 2: On the side when we were prepping.
Speaker 3: To launch the product in the US back in twenty
eighteen when I was working in New York.
Speaker 2: And then we did finally ocfessionally launch.
Speaker 3: It after many delays through challenges through the pandemic in
twenty twenty two, first on e commerce and direct to consumer.
It's throughout the ten years that we've ten plus years
now that we've been involved as a family. It's now
leading brand in Ecuador, leading premium brand.
Speaker 2: We launched direct to consumer in the US in twenty
twenty two and really.
Speaker 3: Has been expanding our retail footprint, notably in the last
two years now.
Speaker 2: Available in the likes of Sprout.
Speaker 3: Airwin Loads, Foods in the southeast, and a ton of
additional regional retailers throughout the country. So it's been a
whirlwind of you know, ten plus years of at least somewhat.
Speaker 2: Being tied to the water. But the story runs way
deeper than our family, which is what so special?
Speaker 1: Yes, well who doos too? That is an incredible story
because I hadn't heard it prior to right now, so
that is absolutely incredible. And then for your family to
you know, join forces and bring this amazing product to
the world.
Speaker 2: Yes, now it's been it's been a joy.
Speaker 3: It's a learning every day, but but we're really enjoying
it and we deeply believe in it.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: Now. What is live water?
Speaker 2: So live water I will have that here.
Speaker 3: That is it is definitely an emerging term, and there
are definitions of it that's sort of very dependent on
who you're speaking to and what market audience. But the
way that we've truly defined it and as it's growing
to be, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 2: It's that water that originates.
Speaker 3: From a natural springer source that's been really kept unprocessed
and as much in its natural state in essence as
it possibly can.
Speaker 2: Be natural state from the earth.
Speaker 3: I liken it too, you know, just organic, natural, real food,
you know, not something that comes in a package or
the process in any way that I think the world
has really begun.
Speaker 2: To pay attention to.
Speaker 3: And water is really starting to have that moment, which
is really exciting, as we really want water be the same.
We want it to be something that natural, is more
compatible and readily absorbed by our body and organism because
it's in the same composition and state that hasn't been
altered or been sitting in type filtered or at it
you know, filtered with the good and the bad out
and or you know, treated with chemical processing that ultimately
changes the water and where it comes from. So it's
fun or it's a little bit of how we do
go above and beyond in terms.
Speaker 2: Of how we do that.
Speaker 3: Because of course, our source itself is extremely special and
unlike any other.
Speaker 2: It's sourced from the Kotopaxi volcano in Ecuador, which.
Speaker 3: Is one of the highest peaks in the world that
now actually carries incredible energetic properties because it's in this
like center area of the world right along with several
other active volcanoes in the world, so that essence of
where we're from is really special and energetic, and we're
one of the only sources in the world where water
naturally picks up not only amazing minerals like calcium, potasty
and magnetium that you get in a lot of other
mineral waters, but it also picks up gold and silver
really really trace them out of it.
Speaker 2: So it's of course safe to.
Speaker 3: Drink, but those two minerals have really functional benefits from
helping the collagen natural antibacterial.
Speaker 2: So we want to keep everything.
Speaker 3: That's in the water from this amazing source in it
and as untouched as possible. And the way that we
kind of go above and throughout our bodiling process to
keep it alive and keep all.
Speaker 2: That natural energy intact is that.
Speaker 3: At our spring, which is in Lamna right where it
kind of and these meet the Andian rainforest, we transport
the water as it's from the Artesian spring, so it
comes up to the surface naturally.
Speaker 2: Through surgical grade sealed pipes that are lined with ionized magnets.
Speaker 3: And it sounds a little crazy, but stick with me,
but lined with magnets at strategic points that's really meant
to like emulate the water in the spring in a
circular motion, so that it's not just going straight to
the plant, but as if it was flowing naturally in nature.
Speaker 2: And then there through bottling.
Speaker 3: It's not treated with any chemicals whatsoever, not very very
natural sinfiltration, just with like necessary for bottling.
Speaker 2: And then the blue bottle is you know, beautiful and
can be a great design choice, but it's actually really
more of a functional choice.
Speaker 3: If you think about beer or any process that like
should not be touched by light and isn't a darker bottle.
The blue bottles meant to protect the water from heat,
light or any external elements that can alter the streat
and the natural structure of it or the water molecules inside.
So when you drink it, unlike you know, really any
other spring water and all the amazing waters that are
also out there one door is in a molecular and
energetic state that's as close to the spring as you
could possibly get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like wow, So you never knew there
was so much.
Speaker 1: In this blue bottle, And like I said, everything that
you said is is you know, it makes sense that
it's functional to protect the blue bottle to protect the water,
to protect the content. So that's so wow. You learn
something new every day. It's always good, not just for
liquor anymore, it's to protect the waters.
Speaker 2: Cow Well Blue.
Speaker 3: Really is fantastic a kind of people, great sends in
terms of the proper these of cobalts. If you want
to deep dive on that too in your own time.
Speaker 2: The cobalt flu is fantastic.
Speaker 1: What has been the most surprising lesson that you've learned
while building the brand for Splenderwater?
Speaker 3: Oh man, so many lessons that from the beginning of
you know, even first getting interested.
Speaker 2: I'd say some of the starting.
Speaker 3: Ones just I will never look at any products truly
food or beverage products on a shelf the same in
terms of understanding and appreciating the level of de city
making and detail that goes into any food or beverage
label packaging, the way you get your story the elements
in it in a succinct way to any customer, especially
on a shelfie like five seconds or less to get
everything that I just told you in the last ten
to fifteen minutes across, which is has been so challenging
because you know, especially when you're.
Speaker 2: So passionate about something in the story. To get that
succinctism is a challenge.
Speaker 3: But I think really the most thriving lesson here recently
for me, especially with our growth at.
Speaker 2: Retail, is that retail is challenging. It is. It is
no joke, it really I really can't.
Speaker 3: I have to throughout some appreciation to all founders and
all products really that do make it to the shelf,
because each one has worked so hard to get there.
The amount of time and resource and and really like
payment to pay to play a lot of times with
these big resellers that it takes.
Speaker 2: To secure that space first and then to ensure that
you stay on shelf is really a whole different ballgame.
It's where the real work begets.
Speaker 3: Like you've great you know, open these doors or sprouts and.
Speaker 2: And uh, and then it's not guaranteed that.
Speaker 3: You stay there, so you have to continually promote, continually
fund all of that, and you know, it's it's interesting,
maybe this shouldn't have been such a surprise with us,
if you think, and you're so excited once you start
to scale.
Speaker 2: And then you hardly have to take a step.
Speaker 3: Back and ensure that especially in a category like water right,
where the expectation is for us to not really be
above a certain price point and still.
Speaker 2: Remain in our goal too. Right, we want the world
to be able.
Speaker 3: To access this water despite the fact that we are
a premium product and we're importing which as a whole
other layer of the cost structure, and so trying to
compete with national companies, companies that often have much deeper
pockets and capacity than are still small.
Speaker 2: Really family business.
Speaker 3: Margins can really become quickly compressed, and we have to
really think about building that structure into the layers of
distribution stores and.
Speaker 2: Then the end customer.
Speaker 3: So we've really been trying to think outside the box
lately on where else we as a true.
Speaker 2: Wellness and functional product can fit.
Speaker 3: We'll look out for us in newer places like spas,
wellness centers and and you know, high end gems everywhere
where people are like really paying attention to the importance
of hydration.
Speaker 2: And the quality of the water that they're putting in
their bodies.
Speaker 3: We are we're examining all ways in which we can
can meet that person.
Speaker 1: What is the next big milestone on the horizon for
Splendor Water.
Speaker 3: Well, we've got several exciting things with that push to
be more like the overall wellness and life beat space.
Speaker 2: We in the US did actually just launch our second
year partnership with Diplow's ren Clubs, the dj s that
SIPs is pushing a big wellness push as well.
Speaker 3: We just have the first two races in both Denver
and Billy this month, and the next ones are coming
up in October throughout La San Diego and New York.
But I think more exciting and importantly is the Company
at Large is one of our biggest projects that's been
in the works for several years and finally come to
fruition and open.
Speaker 2: To the public so that we at so so madeor
the original founder's home.
Speaker 3: It was falling apart and we've reconstructed it and opened
a wellness retreat and healing.
Speaker 2: Center there at the source called Cori.
Speaker 3: Mana, and it's a way of revamping our story. A
lot of the old artifacts and the pyramid that's on
our label can be told and truns there at a
small museum on site, and the idea of the importance
of water and sort of that essence of bringing.
Speaker 2: Back to ourselves and the healing source where we were found.
Speaker 3: Is the idea of opening that up to the world
and allowing people to come visit our plant Monday.
Speaker 2: And have really a really unique self healing.
Speaker 3: Experience at this retreat center that's just been recognized by
healing centers of the world, and that we hope to
be able to bring many more people to in the
years to come.
Speaker 1: Sarah, thank you so much for coming through. We so
appreciate you and your efforts.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Gosh for having me. This is
been very exciting and love your show. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: To see all the other exciting brands and people that
you put out.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and of course, Sarah, you are welcome back on
the show. I know that they are going to be updates, announcements,
all that stuff. I like to have the exclusive Sarah,
so you got to come back and share with us.
Speaker 2: Listen. I would love to anytime.
Speaker 3: There's lots happening here, so always weren't here and I
did best.
Speaker 2: Make you all.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen percent discount for anyone that wants to try us
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. And of course all that information will be
in the body of this episode, so you guys check
out all the details, all that great stuff. Sarah, much
more success to you and the whole team, looking forward
for your next visit. You're next stop with us.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate each and every one of you guys.
Thank you so much for your love, the shares, the cares.
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