01 · Definition
What it is
Shilajit is not a plant, a mineral or a fungus. It is a humic exudate: the slow product of plant and microbial matter compressed in rock over centuries, seeping from cracks in warm months as a blackish-brown resin. Chemically it carries fulvic and humic acids, aromatic small molecules and trace minerals.
ASCENTIALS sources shilajit in the Altai and purifies it of rock and sand. Every batch will be tested for heavy metals and fulvic acid, with results published before sale.