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• Kangen - Enagic® SD 501
• The Kangen / Enagic® fairytale
• How does Chanson compare to Enagic® / Kangen?

Kangen – Enagic® SD 501

Have you been introduced to Kangen Water® by attending an Enagic® meeting? Were you convinced that alkaline ionized water is exactly what you and your family needs to improve and protect your health? Concerned about the Enagic® SD501 $4,400 price tag?

Look no further! The water ionization, acidic water disinfecting levels, warranty and machine build quality of the Chanson ionizers is comparable, if not better than the Enagic® water machines. Yes, we know they told you that theirs was the "Mercedes", and we know all the "facts" they told you to support why theirs was the "best" in order to justify their price. But as USA retailers of water ionizers for as long as Enagic® has been in the USA, we have seen the health results that "other brands" can bring – we sold most of them before becoming the branch headquarters of the Chanson manufacturer. We have bought, extensively tested and taken apart almost every water ionizer on the market before choosing to promote Chanson exclusively.

We have an extensive catalogue of photos and videos showing some of the massive testing we have done on ionizers over the years- no one in the industry has tested and dis-assembled more ionizers than we have. Please see the test videos on Youtube and chanson websites.

Despite the outlandish claims of superiority made by some Enagic® dealers, our extensive research allows us to tell you with pride and honesty that our seven plate machines produce water that is every bit as powerful and in some cases better than that of the Enagic® ionizers and many of our competitors for that matter. Chanson water ionizers are also the smallest ionizers on the planet which saves you counter top or under-counter space! Our Chanson 7 plate models can produce stronger acid water than the SD501 without using a salt/ chemical solution (sodium hypochlorite). This has been demonstrated in at least 14 states and 3 countries including Canada.

Chanson water ionizers are great machines at a great price. No one can beat us when it comes to quality and price.

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Note: Many great companies like Jupiter and Chanson Water have to spend many hours responding to customers and Enagic® reps in order to detangle myths that Enagic® dealer marketing has created. After losing a sale – Enagic® reps are extremely disappointed and often very angry. Hoping to regain the sale, they regularly send the lost customer over 100 pages of arguments, meant to create fear. We print and keep files of the exaggerated and often completely false claims from Enagic® / Kangen dealers. When printed out a single e-mail will be almost 3/4 of an inch thick. So to lighten the tone, the following information is meant in a light hearted but educational spirit.

The Kangen / Enagic® Fairytale

Imagine for a moment two car manufacture, let’s say Kia and Hyundai for example since I hear that in real life they are each owned by brothers and are similar and I’m told they use the same engine (I don’t know if it’s true.) Both cars, of course, have differences and similarities and yet both serve the same function… to effectively transport people from one place to another.

Let’s say that instead of selling his cars through traditional car dealerships one brother decides to market his cars differently. Let's imagine that in a marketing meeting some executive says, “Let’s work to follow the traditional MLM or muti-level marketing method otherwise known as direct sales. Everyone that buys a car from us becomes a sales person for us and we will pay them a commission and we should also pay the person that recommended our car to that person and the person above them and so on up to seven levels deep. That will mean that we have way more sales people and can sell more cars! We’ll have to have a compensation plan,” he says, “and, of course, it will almost double the price of our vehicle, but if we market it right, we will sell lots of cars!’”

“Why would someone pay more for our car than they are paying now?” another executive asks.
  “Marketing!” Enthusiastically replies the first. “We’ll find every difference between our car and our competitors, and then say that the differences make our product superior to the product they are different from because of the differences. I’ll tell you now that if we spin it right, we could make someone believe that blue is better and worth more than the red just because it’s different.”

That my dear friend is an example of MLM marketing concepts used by many companies. It is a fact that Enagic® is an MLM company.

 Now let’s look at production. In the history of manufacturing – from ketchup to makeup from toys to toasters it is very common for a manufacture to make more than one brand. You don’t think that your grocery store manufactures the products with their name on it do you? Often a manufacture will sell the same product, different packaging, private labeled, and with different price points.

So your expensive salon shampoo and conditioner may be the exact formulation with a different scent and label than your neighbor buys at the discount store and was even produced and bottled at the same plant. In this example her bargain basement shampoo is exactly as good as yours, but neither of you know it. And you wouldn’t believe it anyway because yours cost more and sports that designer name. Marketing can be brainwashing. The perceived value is different, not the actual value.

The same is true with water ionizers. Different bells and whistles, different prices, different marketing, very little difference in the water produced by the machine. (Yes, it is true that the logarithmic scale of measurement has 100 points difference between each point, but if you are comparing points that are outside of drinkable ranges it’s only for bragging rights anyway.-- If you have no idea of what I just said don’t worry, it relates to PH values and ORP numbers used in marketing ionizers.)

A couple of decades ago several companies began to manufacture water ionizers in different parts of Asia. One of them was Panasonic, makers of TV’s and other electronics and one of them was Toyo, a manufacturer of Metal, Rubber tires and other products. Chanson, a water filtration company from Taiwan liked the Toyo ionizers and contracted to buy them in large quantities and private lable the Chanson name put on the Toyo made ionizers to sell in Taiwan. See the photo below of the Toyo made Excel ionizer and the Toyo Kiranos, still sold in Chanson Stores in Taiwan today.

Later, another company bought ionizers from Toyo to sell in the USA market. They were doing well and sold their ionizers for about $1,300 each, which was a lot in the USA at the time. Then someone who was able to market them better approached Toyo. The import contract was sold to the new company who then called their private labeled Toyo ionizer, / Enagic®. The “new” brand of ionizer was the same as the old, but now it cost right around $4,000. So, few people in the United States had heard of anything as amazing as alkaline ionized water or a water ionizer. So many people who desperately need to improve their health, agreed to finance the new $4,000 product for up to five years because they rightly believed it might help them become healthier.

The product they bought was a good product and they were happy with it. The multil-level upline that sold it to them then used marketing technique so the happy customer would also sell machines. They told them it was the best on the market and that it cost more because the electrolyzing plates were bigger and more expensive. Sometimes the sales persons even created fear by saying that “other machines cause cancer.” (We have witnessed this being said at Enagic® meetings and have several emails on file this same claim that were sent by Enagic® upline people.)  The happy customer smiled and went to sleep content having swallowed the “bull” they’d been feed.

Then one day, after the return period had passed, the happy customer found out that there were other ionizers. Ionizers that were quality made, had five-year warranties or even life-time warranties and were as much as half the price they had paid. Some customers were mad, some were sad, some couldn’t believe that in Taiwan the Chanson Excel sells for $1,700 and is made by Toyo the manufacture of the  Enagic® machines. They were aghast to find out that the Excel, sold by Chanson is the updated version of the Toyo machines in different packaging.

So yes Virginia – while there isn’t really a Santa Clause, there are quality, affordable, comparable ionizers that are not sold by multi-level companies using exaggerated claims or outright lies to sell their products. It’s not the machine that can improve your health; it’s the water the machine makes.

P.S. Did you know that the instructions on the back of shampoo bottles to lather your hair twice was designed by a marketing executive to sell twice as much product by increasing customer usage? True story.

To be clear, after 15 years of private labeling and servicing the Toyo machines, Chanson later choose to begin manufacturing their own line of ionizers and have been doing so for the last 10 years. Chanson is a full scale ISO 9001 manufacturer. The Chanson made machines are highly advanced and hold a 38% market share in their country of origin. However Chanson still chooses to distribute ionizers made by other manufactures including Toyo in Taiwan only. Since they say a picture is worth a 1000 words, please see photos of some of the replacement filter pictures available which clearly fit the Kangen / Enagic®. Also see photo of Chanson stores with their own ionizers and those of other manufacturers. Note: Enagic®'s attorneys have asked us to be clear with you that Toyo does not manufacture the Chanson brand ionizers sold in the USA, Chanson does. We’ve never claimed other wise and are quite proud of our manufacturing  and finished product versus Toyo's. We are also not saying there's isn't a good machine, only that we wouldn't want to  over pay for an ionizer when there are great alternatives available.

SD501 filter replacement Chanson branded	SD501 filter in a TOYO machine
Two machines sold in Chanson Taiwan stores.  Very similar to the SD501 including the SAME manufacture TOYO. The one on the right is privately labeled to Chanson even though Chanson now manufactures their own machines. Nobody can say Chanson doesn't know Kangen/Enagic® well since they serviced the machines for 15 years.

How Does Chanson Compare to Enagic® / Kangen?

We have personally tested and dis-assembled more ionizers than any other company in the USA. The result of all the testing and research was that we recognized the number one most important factor in choosing an ionizer is knowing who is making it. When all the important points are added up, Chanson comes out on top every time, here’s just a few of the Chanson advantages:

1. The only water ionizer manufacturer that has 100% of its product line in the water/health category. This is extremely important because it shows where the company’s financial motivations are. Chanson is a health company, not a rubber tire or automotive company.
2. A true ISO 9001 manufacturer with a 30 year background in water filtration and ionization.
3. The only water ionizer manufacturer to own and operate a chain of water stores, further showing Chansons focus and commitment to water/health.
4. The first water ionizer manufacturer and currently about the only one to have its products in a chain store. (Carrefour & RT mart) This is very important because, to get a health product on the shelves of a chain store you must first get past the legal department, if there are any safety or liability concerns you don’t have a prayer of getting your product into those stores. You can currently see Chanson ionizers and filters in most Carrefour and Rt-mart chain stores! (Carrefour is the Asian Walmart)
5. Chanson employs a team of 22 full time R&D engineers that do nothing but research and develop new cutting edge products, again showing Chansons commitment to research and development.
6. Chanson is one of the first companies in the industry to offer limited lifetime warranty on all ionizers and with a 30 year history you can be sure they’ll be around to back it up.
7. Chanson is the only water ionizer manufacturer to offer a complete line of pre-filters, Nano filters, Ultrafilters, R/O filters and Re-mineral filters!
8. Chanson is a true and honest company, there is no deceptions with company names or histories.
9. Chanson does not use multilevel marketing (MLM) or pyramid type sales programs, just simple honest sales with no unrealistic markups to cover downline payouts.

Chanson seven plate ionizers produce very similar ranges of PH and ORP that the Enagic® and other 7 plate competitors machines do. In our side by side testing, the Chanson 7 plate ionizers make stronger acid water than the Enagic® SD501. With that said the top of the line Chanson machines cost about half of the price of an Enagic® SD501. Even if you took our industry leading under counter 7 plate, VS-70 with, our H3 nine stage prefilter, plus our ionizer Armor scale protector, add them all up and we’re still close to half the price of the SD501 and far below HALF the price of the under counter version of the SD501.

Much more important is the fact that the Chanson ionizers do not use dangerous chemicals (sodium hypochlorite) or suspect mineral formulas (calcium sulphite) to achieve the results! This is a huge point to consider.

The technology of the Enagic® SD501 is over 10-years-old. In computer years, that’s considered a dinosaur, which explains their "big plates / big wattage." Remember the huge cell phones of the 80’s, or the huge video cameras? The size was necessary then, but not now. Electronics are smaller and in most cases have more functions then before. Can you take a picture or even a video with your cell phone? The answer is probably yes, but that same cell phone is roughly the size of a deck of playing cards. The same is true for water ionizers, as technology grows; a better, smaller, higher quality, better priced, and more efficient product is being made available.

While the Chanson water ionizers can’t take a picture, they can effectively ionize water using much smaller parts, which allows our ionizers to be the smallest ionizers in the world! That saves you counter or under counter space.

If you really want to spend $4,400, the Enagic® does have one benefit – you can fill a glass faster, the SD501 can achieve about 3 liters per minute at –200 ORP, The chanson on the same water supply can achieve 2 liters per minute with the same ORP, you decide if that’s worth double. On the other hand, if you want great tasting alkaline ionized water or disinfecting acid water for an affordable price, with an outstanding warranty and reputation – consider Chanson – we're here to serve.

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