In these preparations an attempt is made to simulate the natural mineral waters, the constituents of which are revealed by chemical analysis. If the mineral constituents, as revealed by analysis, are added to pure distilled water in essentially the same proportions as they exist in the natural waters, a product is secured which, in so far as the chemist is concerned, is an exact imitation of the original. As mineral waters are very frequently charged with carbon dioxid naturally, many of the artificial waters are saturated with carbonic acid at a high pressure. When artificial waters are made under strictly sanitary conditions, and many of them, perhaps most of them, are so made, and when they are so labeled as to give to the consumer a correct knowledge of their origin, they are not objectionable.