Cedar Bear Technologies – TincTract®, Pureodine™, and BTC™ Products Manufacturer

TincTract® process – 'Liquid Herbs Reinvented™' 

First developed in 1982 by our founder, L. Carl Robinson, who is a highly sought-after consulting herbalist and product development specialist, with decades of experience in both Cedar Bear® brand products, and the private label & bulk ingredient manufacturing industries. The TincTract® process is Cedar Bear®'s original proprietary flagship processing technology and the first of its kind in the industry. The TincTract® process was the result of Carl realizing that even though different solvents result in different extractive potentials for different botanical constituents, he was also aware that the methodology (i.e., the 'technology') utilized for extracting botanicals had a considerable influence, as much or even more, on extractive potentials. In other words, the solvent/medium used AND the process technology utilized determine extractive potentials and outcomes, not just the consideration of a solvent alone, or even how much herb is used relative to the amount of solvent used. This led to Carl's development of the totally alcohol-free, serialized multi-step , multi-dynamic TincTract process, an integrative synergies-based approach that combines both solvent chemistry properties and process technology considerations to determine anticipated extractive potential outcomes. 

The TincTract® process utilizes cutting-edge principles of contemporary fluid chemistry, customized equipment, and manufacture-standardized protocols, with the process being frameworked on a metaphoric 4-fold Applied Alchemy model. It is a unique, serialized multi-step, multi-dynamic manufacturing process for making totally alcohol-free, potent liquid herbal concentrates using glycerin (and purified water) instead of alcohol (and/or water) or any other extractive solvent. This means TincTract® made products are not subject to the denaturing and inert rendering effects that alcohol-made products are subjected to. Yes! Alcohol possesses the intrinsic chemical characteristic of denaturing and rendering inert many constituents in a botanical, whereas glycerin does not.

The 'serialized' approach a TincTract® process is based on is the opposite in concept and application to the 'saturate' approach used by other makers of liquid herbal products, which results in lthe TincTract® process being hugely differentiated from other botanical liquid extraction processes in the industry. This means the TincTract® serial-based process results in far less spent botanical waste than saturate-based processes do, even though a finished TincTract®  product is as potent or more potent than saturate-based products. This may appear counter-intuitional, and people often ask, "How is this possible?" The answer lies in the innovative and unique TincTract® process. Fluid chemistry itself shows that a 'serialized' approach to fluid extracting can have as much or greater extraction potentials, passed into a finished product (on a size-for-size comparision basis), as a 'saturate' approach, and typically with much less end-waste involved, which makes a serialized TincTract® process more ECO-Friendly, Carbon-Neutral, and Zero-Waste compatible than typical saturate-based processes are or are able to be.

The multi-step and multi-dynamic aspects of the TincTract® process also includes utilizing the best aspects of ‘low altitude’ and ‘high altitude’ processing dynamics within the technology itself, which is one of many other differentiators from other fluid processing technologies in the liquid herbal products industry, and is one factor that accounts for why the alcohol-free glycerin-based serialized multi-step, multi-dynamic TincTract® process removes as many, or more, constituents and components than previously thought or done with other alcohol-based or totally alcohol-free glycerin-based fluid processing of botanical and mycelium extracts.

The TincTract® process is now in its 12th generation iteration of proprietary enhancements and refinements, evidenced by the stronger, more concentrated, potent, and higher quality liquid herbal products than of earlier generational iterations, that started at an effective dosing of one teaspoonful per dose, and is now at an effective dose of 1/4 teaspoon per dose (1/8 teaspoon for children). This is just one of our innovative proprietary technologies developed by Carl that is used to ensure the highest quality standards found in liquid herbal products.The fact is, Carl and Cedar Bear® have been doing potent and concentrated, totally alcohol-free liquid herbs and formula-based liquid herbal products in the industry and marketplace longer than anyone else and, therefore, are the most knowlegable and experienced at doing so.

Two Final Points to Conider:

'Effective' dosing – means the dosage of a product that results in a noted effect. However, dose and dosing, as terms can mean two different things. They can mean a 'singular' dose for effective dosing, or it can mean a 'series' of doses in a period of time, typically based on a range of product taken at time of consuming, say 5-20 drops, for instance, wherein the series of doses, that are not 'effective' doses by themselves, results in a 'compounded' effective dose at the end of the dosing series. Some companies are listing ridiculously low dose or dose ranges, that appear to be an 'effective' does, but are not, regardless of marketing sales ploys to the contrary, with such small dose amounts being seen as part of an 'effective' dose based on series dosing to obtain a noted effect. TincTract® made liquid herbal concentrates do not list ridiculously low non-effect drops dosing requiring series-dosing to reach an effective level, but list the actual single use-based amount of product required for an 'effective' dose. It's a more genuine way of listing dosing recommendations.

The myth of herb-to-fluid ratio listing on product labels – and the various ways of doing so. Though they are hawked to have relevancy regarding quality, herb-to-fluid ratio listings are actually a distraction and irrelevant to practitioners, store personnel, and consumers, because they do not indicate anything of 'actual' potency (without 3rd party quantitive analytics accompanying the product to compare to like products), efficacy potential (accompanied with 3rd party clinical trials, for that specific product), or quality of a product, because 'numbers,' without knowing processing specifics, specific analytical factors regarding botanicals used, and clinical trials for that actual product, renders a product listing an herb-to-fluid ratio or its variations as being irrelevant to the intent of the listing. For instance, three different competitor products list the same herb-to-fluid ratio, does that mean they will have the same efficacy potential and quality? The answer is no, because their manufacturing processes are not 'standardized' between them, and the botanicals they use typically come from different sources, even from different countries from each other. An herb-to-fluid ratio, or its variation of expressing the same, are only relevant to the internal documentation and operations of the company making a product, and to no one else at large. Herb-to-fluid ratio listings, or other 'herb amount extraction' range listings (which are another way of doing the same herb-to-fluid ratio listings 'numbers') simply convey nothing to a practitioner, store, or consumer of the 'actual' quality or efficacy potential of a product. It's a deceptive ruse, and a disingenuous one at that. That's why Cedar Bear® does not list herb-to-fluid ratios or similar variations thereof on its product labels. For us it's a matter of marketing integrity.    

Pureodine™ process

This unique and cutting edge IP driven manufacturing process for making our totally alcohol-free stabilized glycerite of mono-element-based diiodine molecular iodine (commonly, but incorrectly, called 'nascent' iodine) is a first-ever in the industry and marketplace. It was developed in 2007 by Carl, as the lead developer, and a select in-house team with specialized backgrounds in nuclear energy and electrics, theoretical physics, and systems modeling, all of which were relevant to developing this innovative technology that utilizes the transformative IHMVAS (Integrated Hydro Molecular Vortex Agitation System) accelerator. The Pureodine™ process is now in its 8th generation iteration of proprietary enhancements and refinements, making it the most stable and efficient mono-element-based diiodine molecular iodine available in the industry and marketplace. Aspects of the Pureodine™ process are also used for making concentrated, ultra-caged, and stable (i.e., stays in an extended colloidal suspension) glycerite of mineral zeolites, unique only to Cedar Bear®, which is another industry first!

Biologically Targeted Coherent™ (BTC™) process

The BTC™ technology, developed by Carl in 1999, is a unique innovation original to Cedar Bear® for making highly stable 'vibrational energetic blanks' and complex vibrational-dynamized formulae products for agriculture, livestock, humans, pets, and research purposes. The BTC™ technology was the first 'true' alcohol-free approach to vibrational-based dynamized and flower essence-based products in the industry and marketplace. The BTC™ technology involves exacting proprietary procedures, protocols, mathematical constructs, and custom-built instruments. The stability of our BTC™ made products is unmatched in the industry and marketplace. We've been creating and making alcohol-free vibrational dynamized products longer than anyone else in the industry and are more experienced at doing so. The alcohol-free concept for making flower essence products was so revolutionary and innovative that it has been imitated in the marketplace at large, but even though such products may be alcohol-free, they are not made using the innovative and highly stable complex vibrational locking-in BTC™ technology, which differentiates BTC™ made products from all others.

Other unique and original proprietary processes

Due to Carl's fluid chemistry processing insights, Cedar Bear® also has other original totally alcohol-free proprietary fluid processes developed by him for making other highly unique products and ingredients used in both Cedar Bear®'s brand of products and in its LHI (Liquid Herbs International™) sales department for third party private label & bulk ingredient endeavors. One such example is the Citritol™ process for making our unique and original micro-fractionated poly-ionic LTMs (Liquid Trace Minerals), that micro-fractionates a typical 32 oz size bottle of colloidal LTMs down to 2 oz! It's called microBURST!™, another innovative industry first!