Pure Breastmilk Jewelry

At our studio, I’m proud to offer breastmilk jewelry that preserves the purity of your milk without powders or artificial tints. Instead, I use a unique preservation method, developed to capture the natural colors and qualities of your breastmilk. Unlike the widely used “powder method”—in which breastmilk is mostly evaporated away, leaving only traces behind—my pieces incorporate your milk in its truest form.

Many methods involve heating the milk with a pre-tinted powder until it evaporates, then drying and crushing this mixture for final use. If you're considering a piece from another creator, I recommend asking how your milk is preserved. If they use a powder method, request a demonstration with water; a reluctance to share basic information can be a red flag. While creators don’t need to share their exact process, transparency in preservation style is essential when it comes to investing in something so meaningful.

My process is designed to keep the milk’s natural hue, and as you can see from the photos, this may differ from the stark white that powdered methods create. If you’d like to know more, feel free to check out additional information and videos in previous blog posts.

Breastmilk Hourglass

These hourglasses are custom-filled with your keepsake. These are made with breastmilk sand. This sand does pass through the glass as functional, however, I’m not certain on the timing it will have. These make for a wonderful keepsake that stays safely at home while making a lovely statement. These are created with breastmilk and whatever other add-ins or tints you choose.

Blood/DNA Crystal Ball

The blood/DNA Crystal Ball can be created with several elements and customized completely to the client’s taste. Choose a crystal cluster or gem tree center or the options are honestly nearly endless. I have a slew of ideas that I am waiting to create. You can also choose to have gems floating in your globe. Again, these are completely customizable with your DNA or other keepsake items. Cremains(ashes), breastmilk, placenta, and blood.

Breastmilk Snow Globe

The breastmilk snow globe can be created with several elements and customized completely to the client’s taste. Choose a gem tree center or the options are honestly nearly endless. I have a slew of ideas that I am just waiting to create. The snow and some of the other items can be created with breastmilk. Breastmilk snow flows freely throughout your globe. You can also choose to have gems floating in your globe. Again, these are completely customizable with your DNA or other keepsake items.

Naturally colored breastmilk jewelry

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Top pearl is a freshly preserved piece just out of the mold. The pearl below is a cured out piece that better represents the actual color of the mother’s milk and how my cure out looks next to the mother’s actual milk.

DIY Breastmilk Preservation Recipe

There are a few ways you can do this depending on how ethical and stable you want your preservation to be. Naturally, you are going to want the best of the best, let’s be real. Unfortunately, you aren’t going to find too many people giving that information out for stable, well-established formulas.

Some are more ethical than others, but if you are making it yourself you are well in the know of what you are putting into your piece.

This DIY method is easy and you can get most of the items quickly. Please note this method is NOT professional grade.
You can see the below method done on a previous blog post or my YouTube.

Resin
You will want 5 ml of Citric Acid
5ml of breastmilk
(titanium dioxide) if you choose
Mix together and evaporate off the liquid in a double boiler method until the mixture becomes a paste.
Flatten onto parchment paper to dry for 1 week. Silica gel sand helps this process as well.
Once dried mix with your resin and cast. - I recommend sealing your piece to give it extra protection.

The famous powder dust is made with various ingredients. Most are not public, but I speculate a lot of them are filled with titanium dioxide, plaster, citric acid, and other finely ground powders. Most of all, whatever they are using is highly pigmented. I’d assume things used in the powders are anything from safe products to dangerous chemicals. BE CAREFUL ordering, using, and creating these products.

Wet Method Preserved Breastmilk unrefrigerated, 2 years later. . .

I thought this might interest some of you who have been following along on my wet method breastmilk preservation. Here is some preserved breastmilk that has been put through the wet method preservation and stored in a tube, on the shelf for 2 years waiting to be made into jewelry. I’m trying to test how long I can keep preserved orders on file without refrigeration. Look how cool it is, it reminds me of plasma! Two years strong! Once shaken, it mixes right up.

M.O.M. Breastmilk Wet Method Cure-out

Here’s a good example of The Mind Over Matter breastmilk preservation wet method. This shows the method next to the client’s actual milk used. The two pearls show how the cure-out phases go with this method. When the breastmilk is cast it tends to be a dramatic, crisp white. This method cures out to a more natural milk color once it settles (oxidizes) into the resin. Some might consider this discoloring, but as spot on as my pieces seem to cure out to, I’d say it’s much more natural than the super white pieces that typically don’t represent the natural colors of the milk.

I also have a photo of a cured-out ring next to the client’s actual milk. I thought it was pretty stunning how well the gem represents the actual milk from my client.

Breastmilk Preservation Powder Method

I did a demonstration of the famous breastmilk preservation powder recently. You can get the powder from etsy and other dna crafters via diy kits. I would imagine powders are made and work similarly, but you can try this for yourself with whatever kit or method you are using.

I’m not using the full step-by-step method as that requires a double boiler and for the sake of time and showing tints I don't think that part is necessary, but I do that in full in a later video.

I was given the powder from a lady in one of the breastmilk preservation groups I was a part of after we had talked briefly about the method not being all that tried and true as it's claimed. My stance is that not all methods are created equal. There are several others who agree, but few will say publicly (and I won't throw them under the bus ) because you will get removed from groups and or bullied and name called.

Some methods are definitely purer than others, but from my research, this seems to be one of the lower quality options as it is packed with tint and filler, on top of evaporating off much of what you'd use.

In my years preserving breastmilk and pumping my own milk, I’ve not seen Bright, powder-white breastmilk, so it doesn't make sense to start with a base that impacts the natural color so much.

I like science so doing this method with water as I did with my own was a part of the experimental and learning process for me. You can see both demonstrations now and you can see which is the purest choice, which is up to the mother's and that's really the whole point. Being a mother myself I would have been devastated to find out my piece was made with tints when I was expecting my milk was the only thing added to color my piece.

I got to see the powder with my own two eyes, it's not speculation how it works. In my opinion, this method is flawed on several points.

This method isn't bad, per se, if you are being honest with your clients about what is going into their keepsakes. I realize some people aren't going to be happy with this, but I’ve been deleted from groups, called names, and bullied along the way, it is what it is. I'm not doing this to be mean, but I like science and information. My Main point is mothers are expecting no tints, and for their crafter to be honest with them. If you're doing that, then there is no issue here.

It's not about swaying your opinion on the method or which crafter to use, rather making people understand what’s happening to their piece. Most mothers aren’t going to realize THAT much filler and that much of a tint goes into their piece. And if their crafter is telling them no tints, they believe them.

This is 5 ml of water to represent the breastmilk that would be used to one packet of powder. I didn't use the whole packet, I used a tiny bit, just to show how much it impacts. Even being diluted more, it still is VERY pigmented and again, you'd be adding a lot more powder and evaporating off any excess liquid, which is primarily what breastmilk is.

This method only works if you’re being honest.

If you still want to argue that I make no sense, there likely isn't any reasoning with you.

You can see the video and all the other videos about preservation on my TikTok or Youtube.. https://www.tiktok.com/@mindovermattermom

Proving there is Breastmilk in your jewelry

Ok, for the first real content blog on the page, today I am going to cover the newest “fad” in breastmilk jewelry. Testing to see if milk is really in your piece.

I am in a few groups for DNA artists and it's usually a battle to get anyone to understand where you are coming from when trying to chat about certain methods unless you agree with them. -Anyway, people are against my outlook on the powder method and it stirred the theoretical pot. In that whirlwind, I was also removed from a group and another artists started to claim she could tell what pieces have milk or tints. - I just felt compelled to test her claim. I’d happily send her a piece in exchange for one of hers.- I’m that confident in my own method.

I decided to set out the very next day with my own trial on her experiment because I can’t call it junk or deem it worthy if I have no first-hand knowledge with it. I like Science and am always up for a good challenge and experiment to take part in. This is how we learn and how we improve.

**** Before I go on further I am going to say this, PLEASE DO NOT EVER DO THIS IN YOUR HOME- IN YOUR OVEN-AROUND YOUR KIDS AND PETS-EVER! EVER! I am using a craft oven in my open garage and also am using PPE as this is a NASTY, NASTY, dangerous thing to be doing. (And quite irresponsible of the artist to tell people to do in their homes, not giving any sort of disclaimer and saying it is up to the client to know.) Sorry, but most people who don’t work with resin likely wouldn’t know any better. - That’s why disclaimers are put on all types of things; to be informative. Any DNA artist knows most people have 0 knowledge how dangerous it could be via that guidance.) Don’t do it!****

If you find the tik toc video, they look to be using a standard oven and does not seem to tell viewers how dangerous it is. That video should have been started 100% with a disclaimer, not only for the fumes, but also the pans and oven you are told to use. BIG NO! You HAVE to care about your clients and just others in general. This could literally KILL people with severe asthma or certain sensitive pets, like birds and reptiles. I am here to tell you DO NOT DO THIS EXPERIMENT! If you must see, please ask your artist to do it for you via a video or images. - If you cannot trust your artist beyond that you probably shouldn't be ordering from them. Truthfully, if you tell me you need an extra gem, at no charge- to bake, it's unlikely I am going to give you one. I only give extra pieces when I have extra pour, it's not always typical. What you do with any extra is your business, but I don't advise wasting it on something like this when I have already done it.

So, why am I posting this? Because a lot of the artists/groups want to censor what is out there. IT IS ALREADY OUT THERE SO TALK ABOUT IT! SCREAM ABOUT HOW TO DO IT SAFELY! OR WHY NOT TO AT ALL! DON’T CENSOR IT AND PUT IT UNDER THE RUG! Censoring doesn’t make it vanish, it only keeps information that would have been useful and safe at bay. Good thing for me I have my own platform and an IQ enough to know that it is already public. I will take it upon myself to make sure it is posted how to do so properly. - The method is out there, so it may as well be talked about for what it is AND for how to properly do it, right? It's only going to gain popularity. - This was not the first artist to have a similar claim, just the first one to take it public. Better to have GOOD, ACCURATE info about it than sweeping it under the rug like some would prefer to do. I was happy a handful of other artists did reach out via messenger in support of both the baking method being brought to light AND my points with the powder methods. You don’t have to fully agree with someone to have a discussion. Open minds create the future.

Again, do NOT do this without ALL precautions as it could cause severe allergic reactions for weeks or months at a time.
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Ok, here's the deal. Another artist released a method to prove or discredit other artists milk purity (or use) of milk in their jewelry. I felt compelled to try it as she had just removed me from her group for speaking up about the powder method. My factual information was censored and I was removed. I don’t feel quite as offended knowing that seems to be a common trend over disagreements. A lot of the artists don't think my wet method is even possible, though I assure you, with the right Science, it is. :)

With this “proof” method, you supposedly can bake your breastmilk pieces in a oven, at high temps for a few minutes and then you have your result. If your pieces brown, there is milk. If they stay white they were packed with filler and or tints.

For my first attempt at trialing this method it DID work for my preservation method. My raw breastmilk pieces turned brown and the decoy tinted piece stayed fairly white. With that said, the piece with 0% milk did change a tiny bit, but was more of a marbled look, not a uniform brown, like the others. Also, the pieces made with shimmer and or flecks didn't get AS brown as the raw milk pieces. If nothing else, this further proves my points about the powder method NOT being so tried and true (“pure”) after all. - IT IS MOSTLY FILLER and DOES have tints. I would ADORE to see some trials of this done with the famous dusts/powders. - I have a hunch that's why my post was removed. No one wants this gaining traction, not just for health risk, but for being afraid of their own methods stacking up. Maybe that’s my opinion, but it seems fishy to me.

Bottom line, I am willing to do what I can to prove my method contains milk because it does and I feel it is one of the most pure methods out there right now. I do what I can, when I can, but I don't recommend trying this on your own. If you want to see it, have your artist show you. They SHOULD be willing to as they can do it once and document their results. One and done and counter top ovens are a dime a dozen at a thrift shop or marketplace.

There are still flaws with this method proving or discrediting other artists. Too many variables go into why it does or doesn't work with methods. I'd love to see some other artists (properly protected) doing their preservation method with baking. We definitely need more artists to take part before it could be deemed 100% a way to tell. Because how do we know it would work with every method or add-in? What about age of the piece? If the piece is sealed?(which all of my set gems are, the ones I baked were not as they weren't set.) SO many things could go into why a piece does or doesn’t change. I’d like to see a controlled experiment with a bunch of artists trading pieces to trial to keep it fair and non-bias.

All in all, the take away from this is. …. . It is VERY dangerous and still too new of a method to prove or discredit if it is a “tried and true” way to tell.

Please do not message me asking for the link to the video or to the powders/dusts. A simple google search has the worlds end at your finger tips.

I will do a few more tests, just to get a better understanding, and will definitely try to do so during the day/with my pro camera so the images will be better as well.

Stay safe!

The following images are from my first attempt at the method. I used my phone to photograph in my dark kitchen.
Top pearl is the decoy tinted piece. Cluster of gems: Two raw milk gems, core bead with colostrum, gems under are with shimmer and other with shimmer and opal flecks. Small gem in the right corner: opal flecks.