How to choose home water purifier, water purifier and water softener? This article will help you clear your mind!

How to choose home water purifier, water purifier and water softener? This article will help you clear your mind!

Have we all had such troubles? Open the tap water, obviously looks clear and transparent, but drink to the mouth always feel strange, sometimes there is also a hidden taste of disinfected water. Then for example, the kettle did not take long inside a thick layer of white scale, after washing the face of dry skin, after washing the hair frizzy knots ...... Is the problem really in our home on the tube of tap water?

Now on the market a variety of purification equipment, what water purifier, water purifier, water softener, look dazzling, but in the end how to choose? They can each solve what practical problems? Today's article, we will take you to use simple and easy to understand the words of these three “artifacts” to say through, will be accompanied by a little illustration, to help you become a buyer in a second! Hurry up to collect, the future to buy machines do not step on the pit ~!

Everyday drinking: Why do I need to consider “purification”?
First of all, let's talk about the most basic needs of our lives - drinking healthy, safe water. Although most of the city's tap water factory has reached the standard, but after a long pipeline transportation, to our homes, it is likely to be mixed with rust, sand, and residual chlorine (that is, disinfectant) and some invisible small particles. Long-term consumption of these impurities or poor taste of tap water, the body is not good. At this time, the purification equipment will come in handy. Only, their division of labor has its own focus, you choose which one, depending on your actual needs ~ 
[family members, drinking taste requirements, you can focus on pure water products].

Get to know the “water purifier”: 
Enhance the daily drinking experience of the small assistant household water purifier on the market, in fact, most of them refer to have a combination of activated carbon cartridge and ultrafiltration membrane and other structures of the machine. It is mainly aimed at removing sediment, large particles of impurities, residual chlorine, odor, and some bacteria from tap water. This kind of product filtration speed is fast, generally do not need to energize, do not discharge wastewater, the whole house is convenient to use.

For example, some people like the kitchen directly connected to a water purifier, the filtered clean tap water usually cooking soup, washing fruits and vegetables, relative health and peace of mind. And this machine retains the mineral content, such as calcium and magnesium ions, that is to say, drink will not be rigid monotonous, belong to the kind of “gentle” improvement.
But be careful, if you are in the area of the original tap water is safe and sound, just want to make the taste a little better, safer, this type of machine is completely enough. If the heavy metal pollution is serious, complex water sources, then you have to upgrade equipment.

What about the pursuit of ultimate purity? Learn about the “water purifier” 
If you are a party, super sensitive to imported food, or worried about the local underground network of old secondary pollution, then you can consider getting a water purifier, also known as reverse osmosis RO membrane filter. The most important feature of this machine is that it can dissolve almost all the common impurities in the tap level, including bacteria, viruses, harmful heavy metals are intercepted.
To put it bluntly, with RO membrane technology filtered out is close to the distillation level of “pure” H₂O ~ not only no odor, there is no mineral residue, so boiling will not scale (very suitable for people who love to make tea), to the baby brewing powdered milk is also particularly assured. But because the filtration is too thorough, some people will feel that the taste is light, not as natural mineral springs have levels. At this time, you can choose to match the mineral cartridge back to supplement, so that the taste is more natural.

Another point of note, this type of machine usually need electricity, and because the reverse osmosis process will produce waste concentrated water, so the installation should be reserved for the location of the sewage pipe. If the family has a large number of people, every day to take the amount of larger, you can choose to have a storage bucket with a large flow style, otherwise out of the sweet side do not forget to check the production / waste ratio ~ 
[the pursuit of the ultimate in safety, high-end beverage needs, infants and young children in the family is suitable for consideration] 

let life softer, “water softener” to understand!
In addition to drinking healthy and good drinking water, in fact, many people ignore the home there is another hard-core artifacts, that is, “soft” off those stubborn calcium and magnesium ions of the softening device. Some areas are rich in calcium and magnesium on the surface, so out of the tap water is usually boiled easily appear a lot of white precipitation (scale), and bathing time feel tight skin, hard clothes after washing, which is all hardness trouble.
 

Softeners generally use the resin exchange method, dissolved in the original tap level of calcium ions and magnesium ions replaced with a smaller impact on the human body or even harmless sodium ions, so as to achieve the reduction of hardness, to prevent scaling, to prevent dry itchy skin problems. So often see friends in the north after buying a softening device crazy Amway, said finally can say goodbye to the stubborn spots on the bathroom glass, a variety of faucets are no longer clogged rust!

 

However, need to remind, softened water usually best not directly as a direct drinking water, because of the increase in sodium content (although very low, for the vast majority of healthy adults no pressure), but for special populations or recommended conservative ~ usually this device applies to the whole house into the home, such as doing the central front, greatly enhancing the bathing and housework experience!

【Northern cities, high hardness areas, newly renovated whole house is recommended to give priority to】!

Selection tips, read these points less stepping on the pit!

1. Recognize the authoritative certification, such as NSF / national standard certification mark;

2. Combined with the local water supply usual values (you can buy a kit test, total hardness TDS value) selection;

3. Pay attention to the cost of maintenance of consumables, different filter life varies greatly;

4. The number of people in the family to determine the flow and capacity;

5. Installation space should be planned in advance, some need to be up and down the pipeline, some occupy a wider area;

6. After-sales service is in place, there is no regular reminder to replace consumables and other value-added services;

Of course, if the budget allows, in fact, the three with the best results. For example, the kitchen drinking area equipped with RO water system, the whole house at the addition of the central front + softening equipment, to achieve a full range of food and drink washing care, so that the quality of life in one step ~ after reading is not found, in fact, each type of equipment have their own specialization properties, there is no absolute sense of “the best”, only the one that suits your own home. May wish to list out according to their own needs form, and then go to the offline stores to experience first-hand under the outflow water speed and noise performance, more secure!

Finally, if this popularization has solved your questions or there are other specific questions you want to ask, welcome to leave a message to discuss, what else do you want to know about the health of home knowledge? Let's continue to talk about it in the next issue.