Collection
High-silica waters
27 waters at 25 mg/L silica or more — the "beauty mineral" shelf, ranked by SiO₂.
Silica (SiO₂, dissolved from volcanic rock) is the "beauty mineral" — the basis of the Fiji and Volvic pitch, marketed for skin, hair and connective tissue, with little proven effect on taste. There is no regulatory line for it, so ours is a house cut at 25 mg/L, set deliberately below Volvic's 31.7 so a routine data revision cannot flip its classification.
One honesty note: silica is the least-published mineral on labels. A water missing from this list may simply not publish a number — we never guess, so unsourced silica stays unranked rather than invented.
| # | Water | SiO₂ | TDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gaudianello Italy · sparkling | 110 mg/L | 1183 |
| 2 | Rozana France · sparkling | 97 mg/L | 3022 |
| 3 | Fiji Fiji | 96 mg/L | 230 |
| 4 | Fonte Vivia Italy · sparkling | 93.6 mg/L | 566 |
| 5 | Acqua di Nepi Italy · sparkling | 92.9 mg/L | 526 |
| 6 | Souroti Greece · sparkling | 92 mg/L | 1100 |
| 7 | Ferrarelle Italy · sparkling | 85 mg/L | 1300 |
| 8 | Arvie France · sparkling | 77 mg/L | 2520 |
| 9 | Jermuk Armenia · sparkling | 73 mg/L | 3620 |
| 10 | Radenska Kraljevi vrelec Slovenia · sparkling | 62 mg/L | 3000 |
| 11 | Gloria Patri Portugal | 57 mg/L | 210 |
| 12 | Mattoni Czech Republic · sparkling | 55.9 mg/L | 962 |
| 13 | Rhäzünser Switzerland · sparkling | 55.1 mg/L | 1830 |
| 14 | La Salvetat France · sparkling | 55 mg/L | 560 |
| 15 | Bílinská kyselka Czech Republic · sparkling | 52.1 mg/L | 7357 |
| 16 | Sorgente Tione Italy | 52 mg/L | 180 |
| 17 | Kryniczanka Poland · sparkling | 50 mg/L | 2207.68 |
| 18 | Beypazarı Turkey · sparkling | 48.2 mg/L | 3323 |
| 19 | Gerolsteiner Germany · sparkling | 40.2 mg/L | 2500 |
| 20 | Teinacher Classic Germany · sparkling | 34.9 mg/L | 563 |
| 21 | Fiuggi Italy | 33 mg/L | 142 |
| 22 | Acqua Santa di Chianciano Italy | 32.7 mg/L | 3433 |
| 23 | Volvic France | 31.7 mg/L | 109 |
| 24 | Vidago Portugal · sparkling | 29 mg/L | 2816 |
| 25 | Saint-Géron France · sparkling | 28 mg/L | 1158 |
| 26 | Sangemini Italy · sparkling | 27.6 mg/L | 910 |
| 27 | Adldorfer Naturell Germany | 25.3 mg/L | 550 |