No. We created our purity test kits from scratch using publicly available research and a lot of laboratory experimentation. The colormetric, quantitative analysis of indoles and phenethylamines has a long history using well known reagents. Creating a quantitative test kit, therefore, is simply a matter of balancing the ratio of ingredients in those reagents with specific volumes so both the reagent and extraction fluid work together to produce a discernible color spectrum that correlates with the amount of active ingredient added.

There are many different formulas that will produce such a spectrum (and many more that won’t). It just takes a lot of trial and error to come up with one that works. We spent six months in the lab and performed over two thousand tests to come up with our current formulas. So while it is very likely Miraculix uses modified versions of the same standard reagents we use (not much else turns those specific colors), our respective modifications and formulas are different.

For more information on how we created our kits, read our article, How to Make a Purity Test Kit.

We found that disposable plastic pipettes do not emit uniform drop sizes. Factors like ambient temperature, how hard you squeeze the pipette, how much liquid is in the pipette when you squeeze it, and other seemingly random factors can affect the size of the drop and skew the final result by as much as 30%.

This happened with all the pipettes we experimented with. You can see this yourself by emitting drops onto a milligram scale. The weight of the drop correlates with its size, and more importantly, also with the amount MDMA emitted.

You can buy mechanical pipettes that emit uniform drop sizes, but these devices cost hundreds of dollars and would make the kit unaffordable to the majority of people.  However, a simple 1 ml syringe easily allows for the precise measurement of a small amount of liquid (and hence MDMA), ensuring accurate and consistent results.

We experimented with dozens of different formulas for our LSD kit, and could not find one that gave discernible color differences above 100 mcg that also worked with amounts below 100 mcg. It’s like you get a choice. Do you want to be able to detect the difference between 150 and 200 mcg? Or do you want to be able to detect the difference between 25 and 75 mcg?

Given this limitation, we opted for a stronger reagent that was more capable of differentiating the lower amounts, rather than a weaker reagent more capable of differentiating the higher amounts. This just made sense to us given that most blotter is dosed around 100 mcg or less, making half a tab a perfect amount for the test.

We could have made a weaker Hofmann that would differentiate higher doses, but then you would barely get a color change with the lower doses. What would be the point of that? If you have really strong liquid LSD, you can always dilute it (or dilute some of it) in order to get the test result to fit within the parameters of the color chart. This is much more convenient than the other way around, which would require you to test two or three tabs at once in order to get the result to fit, had we made a weaker reagent.

We do not believe it’s possible to create a purity test kit that can accurately quantify between 0 and 200 micrograms of LSD in a single test. You’re either going to lose the low end or the high end. For the reasons described above we chose to lose the high end. We believe this was the right decision, and this is why our color chart tops out at 100 mcg.

Yes. We did dozens of side by side tests using both a cotton pellet and a Sterifilt filter and found no noticeable difference in the result. Using a cotton pellet to draw up the mushroom liquid works perfectly fine and is much easier. The Sterifilt filters can get easily clogged, making it difficult to fill the syringe.

But make sure and use the cotton pellet. You don’t want solid chunks of mushroom material in the syringe. This will darken the final result and it won’t be accurate. And don’t worry. You can easily see whether you’re successfully filtering out the solid chunks when you are actually doing it.