By Sebastian Madlangbayan, founder of Cleonse: the world's cleanest 3-ingredient organic electrolyte.
Here's the honest answer: pick Cleonse if you sweat hard and need real sodium and fuel — 500mg of sodium and real cane sugar per stick. Pick Just Ingredients if you want a broad-spectrum, low-sodium daily mineral mix with potassium and magnesium and no added sugar. One is a high-sodium fuel drink; the other is a balanced daily sipper. Different jobs.
First, some honesty about my bias
I'm Sebastian. I built Cleonse, so I'm not a neutral judge and I won't pretend to be. Just Ingredients Electrolytes is a genuinely clean product. If it fits your day better than mine does, buy it. This is me walking you through both labels the way I'd want a friend to walk me through them.
Why I even made this comparison
I played competitive tennis — state champion, long days in the sun, matches that ran long enough to cramp. I tried a lot of electrolyte products looking for one that was honest about what it was and did the one job I needed: put the salt back and give me fuel. Most either buried a tiny bit of sodium in a long ingredient list or leaned on sweeteners I didn't want. So I made Cleonse. When people ask how it stacks up against Just Ingredients — another clean brand people trust — I'd rather write the real comparison than a sales pitch.
What each drink actually is
Cleonse is a sodium-and-fuel drink. One 30g stick is three ingredients — organic lemon or organic strawberry powder, organic cane sugar, and French grey sea salt — mixed into 16 oz (473 ml) of water. It gives you 500mg of sodium and 100 calories of real carbohydrate to drink around hard training.
Just Ingredients Electrolytes is a broad-spectrum daily mineral mix. Per 10.1g serving it gives you a little of several minerals — 100mg sodium, 300mg potassium, 50mg magnesium, 50mg calcium, 145mg chloride — sweetened with organic stevia leaf and organic monk fruit, flavored with real fruit, and carrying no added sugar.
That's the whole story in two sentences: one is built to replace heavy sweat and fuel effort, the other is built to top up a spread of minerals through a normal day. Neither is trying to be the other.
The Cleonse label
Three ingredients, nothing else. No stevia, no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, no dyes, no preservatives, no gums, no fillers, no anti-caking agents. It's vegan and gluten-free. Per stick you get 100 calories, 26g of carbohydrate, and 24g of sugar. The French grey sea salt brings 85+ trace minerals along with the sodium — in trace amounts, not doses you should count on. If you want the deep version, I keep the full Cleonse facts on one page.
The Just Ingredients label
Longer, but still clean by any fair standard: organic fruit, citric acid, potassium citrate, organic coconut water, magnesium citrate, sodium chloride, calcium citrate, lime extract, organic stevia, and organic monk fruit. Their claims — no added sugar, real-fruit flavor, no artificial flavors or colors or sweeteners, non-GMO — line up with that list. Depending on flavor it lands at 10–25 calories and 1–6g of sugar from fruit. More moving parts than Cleonse, but every part earns its place.
Side-by-side
| Per serving | Cleonse (30g stick) | Just Ingredients (10.1g) |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium | 500mg | 100mg |
| Potassium | Not added | 300mg |
| Magnesium | Not added | 50mg |
| Calcium | Not added | 50mg |
| Sugar | 24g (organic cane sugar) | 1–6g (from fruit, no added sugar) |
| Sweetener | Organic cane sugar | Organic stevia + monk fruit |
| Ingredients | 3 | 10+ |
| Price | $33 / $66 / $110 (10 / 30 / 60-pack) | See brand site |
A note on that table: Cleonse does not add potassium, magnesium, or calcium. I want to be clear about that because it's the single biggest difference between us. If broad mineral coverage is what you're after, Just Ingredients is built for it and Cleonse is not.
Where Just Ingredients is genuinely better
Three places, and I mean these.
Mineral spectrum. They add potassium, magnesium, and calcium. Cleonse gives you sodium plus whatever trace minerals ride along in the sea salt — and trace means trace. If you specifically want potassium and magnesium in your drink, they have them and I don't.
Real-fruit base. Their flavor comes from actual fruit rather than a powdered flavor. That's a nice way to build a drink, and I'll give them full credit for it.
No added sugar. If you're keeping sugar out of your day for any reason, their stevia-and-monk-fruit approach lands at 1–6g of sugar from fruit and 10–25 calories. Cleonse can't match that, because Cleonse isn't trying to.
Where Cleonse is the better tool
Sodium — five times as much. 500mg versus 100mg. When you actually sweat — a three-set match in the heat, a long run, a hard lift — sodium is the mineral you lose most, by a wide margin. 100mg is a daily-sipping number. 500mg is a replacing-real-sweat number. I built Cleonse around the second job.
Real cane sugar as fuel. The 24g of sugar isn't an accident or a shortcut — it's the point. Glucose helps pull sodium and water across the gut wall, so the sugar is doing hydration work, not just adding flavor. And when you're training hard, carbohydrate is fuel your body wants. Stevia and monk fruit give you sweetness with no fuel. For a daily sipper that's a feature; for a training drink it's a miss. Different jobs, again.
Three ingredients. If a short, readable label matters to you, mine is about as short as it gets. I wrote more about what that actually buys you in what the cleanest electrolyte actually means.
The sugar question, straight
This is where people expect me to get defensive, so let me just be plain. Yes, Cleonse has 24g of sugar and Just Ingredients has almost none. If your goal is to avoid sugar, that's a real point in their favor and you should weigh it honestly.
But sugar isn't a flaw in a training drink — it's the fuel. Organic cane sugar does two useful things at once here: it feeds working muscles, and glucose helps drive sodium and water absorption so the fluid actually gets where it's going. I'd rather use real cane sugar and tell you exactly how much than hide the sweetness behind something I'd have to explain. That's a choice, and it only makes sense if you're using the drink the way it's meant to be used.
So which should you buy?
Pick Just Ingredients if you want a light, no-added-sugar daily mineral drink with a real spread of potassium, magnesium, and calcium, and you're sipping it through normal days more than draining it after brutal sessions.
Pick Cleonse if you sweat hard and need real sodium replacement plus carbohydrate to train on — a lot of salt, real fuel, three ingredients, and a label you can read in one breath.
Plenty of people could use both: theirs on the couch, mine on the court. No rule against it.
If the sweat-and-fuel job is yours, that's exactly what I built. You can grab the Cleonse electrolyte drink mix in Organic Lemonade, Organic Strawberry, or the Duo Assortment over at cleonse.com — 10, 30, or 60 sticks for $33, $66, or $110, one-time, with free shipping and a 30-day guarantee if it's not for you. Cleonse supports hydration around hard training. That's the promise, nothing more.
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Shop CleonseFrequently Asked Questions
Is Cleonse or Just Ingredients better for heavy sweating?
Cleonse, for most people who sweat a lot. It carries 500mg of sodium per stick versus 100mg per serving — five times as much — and sodium is the mineral you lose most in sweat. Just Ingredients' 100mg is aimed at daily topping-up, not replacing a soaked shirt.
Does Cleonse have potassium and magnesium?
No, and I won't pretend otherwise. Cleonse doesn't add potassium or magnesium. You get sodium plus 85+ trace minerals from French grey sea salt, in trace amounts. If you want meaningful potassium and magnesium in the glass, Just Ingredients adds both.
Why does Cleonse have sugar when Just Ingredients doesn't?
Because Cleonse is a training drink and the sugar is fuel. The 24g of organic cane sugar feeds working muscles, and glucose helps drive sodium and water absorption. Just Ingredients uses stevia and monk fruit for a no-added-sugar daily sipper — a different goal, so a different choice.
Are both clean products?
Yes. Just Ingredients is genuinely clean — real fruit, no artificial sweeteners, colors, or flavors, non-GMO. Cleonse is three ingredients with no stevia, artificial sweeteners, flavors, dyes, preservatives, gums, fillers, or anti-caking agents. Different builds, both honest labels.
How much does each cost?
Cleonse is $33, $66, or $110 for a 10, 30, or 60-pack one-time, with free shipping and a 30-day guarantee. For Just Ingredients' current pricing, check their own store — I'd rather point you there than quote a number that might be stale.
Can I use both?
Sure. A lot of people would do fine with Just Ingredients on ordinary days and Cleonse around hard training. They're built for different jobs, so they don't really compete on the same day.
Editor's note: Just Ingredients Electrolytes figures were verified against the official Just Ingredients product label (justingredients.com) and a third-party dietitian review (letsliveitup.com). Cleonse figures come from our own label. Nutrition facts can change, so always check current labels.