

Pumice is found around the globe in various standards of color and purity. But the world's purest, whitest commercial pumice is mined, refined and shipped world-wide by Hess Pumice of Malad City, Idaho USA. [MORE]


Pumice is essentially a foam of volcanic glass—highly vesicular strands permeated with tiny air bubbles. It is these frothy, friable glass vesicles that, when carefully refined to various grades, give pumice its unique and infinitely useful qualities. [MORE]


Pumice is amazingly versatile—used as a gentle polishing and cleansing abrasive, as lightweight aggregate and/or ultra-refined pozzolan in concrete, as a non-crystalline silica filler for paints, plastics and rubber compounds, as a soil conditioner, and more. [MORE]