If you have seen the Osmosis elixirs in our shop, you may be wondering what is actually in the bottle. Osmosis elixirs are natural spring water that the brand says it has treated with its own frequency process, and we stock four of them. Here is what we can tell you, how the four differ, and why we describe them without making claims about what they do.
What are Osmosis elixirs?
Osmosis is a skincare brand, and the elixirs are a small range it sells alongside its skincare. Each elixir starts as natural spring water. Osmosis says it then treats each one with a different "frequency formula", using frequencies it describes as proprietary. The box does not explain what the frequencies are or how they are applied.
So the plainest description of all four is the term Osmosis itself uses: frequency-enhanced spring water.
What's in the bottle?
Going by the boxes, all four share the same basics:
- Ingredients: the list has one item, natural spring water.
- Size: a 125 mL bottle with a pump.
- Nutrition panel: zero energy, fat, sodium, carbohydrate and protein.
- Treatment: each box states that the water has been treated with proprietary frequencies for that elixir's formula.
How do the four elixirs differ?
We stock four Osmosis elixirs, and Osmosis says each one carries a different frequency formula. The ingredient, the size and the nutrition panel are the same across all four; what Osmosis says changes is the formula. The four are:
The names are Osmosis's own. We use them because they are printed on each box, not as our description of what any elixir does.
Why don't we make claims about them?
Osmosis has its own descriptions of what each formula is for, written for the US market. Australian rules and guidance are different, and they shape what we can say:
- A product presented as preventing, diagnosing, curing or relieving a disease or ailment, or as changing how the body works, is generally regulated as a therapeutic good. With limited exceptions, it must be on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods before it is supplied or advertised. TGA — Determining if your product is a cosmetic or therapeutic good
- Advertising for therapeutic goods can refer to serious diseases or conditions only with the TGA's prior approval, and some can be mentioned only in narrow cases the TGA permits. TGA — Restricted and prohibited representations in advertising
- A food or drink can carry a health claim only when the link between the food and the health effect is one the Food Standards Code lists, or one established by a systematic review and notified to Food Standards Australia New Zealand. No food claim may refer to preventing, curing or relieving a disease. Food Standards Code — Standard 1.2.7
- We also follow the National Health and Medical Research Council's view that every health treatment, whether conventional, traditional or complementary, should be judged on a rigorous look at the evidence that it works. NHMRC — Complementary medicines
We haven't seen published human research on frequency-treated water, so we don't claim what the elixirs do. For any health concern, talk to your GP: healthdirect advises that a GP is usually the best first stop for a health problem or concern. healthdirect — What healthcare do I need?
What can we talk about at Melbourne Wellness?
You're welcome to ask about the Osmosis elixirs at our clinic in Abbotsford. We can show you the box and the label, and talk through what is known about them and what isn't.
These are the questions we ask before we write about any product, and they work for anything you are considering:
- What does the ingredient list say is in it?
- Who is making the claim: the brand, or independent research?
- Has that research been done with people, and has it been published?
You can browse the Osmosis products we stock, skincare and elixirs, in our shop.
