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Homemade Distilled Water

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There’s a new health fad in town, and it’s one of the easiest fads to follow. The fad that’s fast gaining traction among the health buffs is something as simple as drinking distilled water. Several studies have discovered that drinking distilled water is beneficial to one’s health, hence the uptrend in this practice.

If you think, however, that drinking distilled water is expensive, then you thought wrong. There are many ways to drink distilled water and you don’t need to spend a gazillion bucks to get this done. All you need to do is find a way to make your own distilled water.

It really is simple; all you need to do is understand how distilled water is made, so you can craft your own “distillery” at home. Once you get the knack of creating your homemade distilled water, you can be as healthy as you want.

Believe it or not, the items you need to distill your own water can already be found in your own home, inside your kitchen. You just need to remember this process: Steam – Condense – Store. That’s all you need to understand the process of making homemade distilled water. However, a regular counter top water distiller is always the fastest and cheapest thing to use.

First you need to fill your container with water. Once done, you need to boil it. Others make the water “settle” first before they start boiling or heating the water. This allows the minerals to settle at the bottom of the container first. While you are boiling the water, you will need to “catch” the steam that rises up. As you know, steam is actually water vapour, and if you condense it, it will turn back into water. This time, though, once the vapour turns to water, it will be rid of its impurities. While the water is condensing, you need a container to “catch” the water droplets from the condensation. Once everything has been steamed and condensed away, you now have your distilled water, now safe for drinking.

Now that wasn’t so difficult, right? All you really need, to make homemade distilled water is a lot of container to store your water in. Make sure that these are clean, and cannot be contaminated.

If you would like to make homemade distilled water but won’t need to use it for drinking, there is an easier way to do so. If you will be needing your distilled water for gardening, or filling up your aquarium, then this process is just as effective. Simply fill up a large container with water. For recycling purposes, you may use water collected from the rain. Cover the container and let it out in the sun to heat it up. Allow the water to settle for one or two days. Once you are done, you will see that the water’s minerals and sediments have settled. You may now transfer the water to cleaner containers. Make sure that you don’t use the water from the bottom of the container, as this is already filled with sediments and minerals.

Making distilled water at home is so easy. Don’t make it too complicated; just know the basic steps and you’ll have all the distilled water you need in no time.

Distilled Water and De-Ionized Water—Is There A Difference?

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We all know that water is not created equal. Our taste buds assure us of that fact; we can detect even the slightest of tanginess, thanks to those organs in our tongue. The same goes for purified water. There are a lot of types of purified water (distilled water, de-ionized water, reverse osmosis, chemical oxidations, and others). All are similar but they are not the same.

Two of the most popular modes of purification is distillation (which produce distilled water, of course) and de-ionization (de-ionized water as the product). Because of the difference of procedures, it follows too that the two products are not equivalent.

The process of distillation is a physical process that involves the evaporation of a liquid (in this case, water) by heating and then condensing its vapors thereby removing any impurities found in it.  In distilled water, the mixture of the water and the comtaminants are separated so pure water remain.

De-ionized water, or DI water, on the other hand, is water that has its ions removed. Ions are charged atoms or molecules. It is charged because the number of electrons do not equal the number of protons in the atom or molecule. If there are more electrons than protons, the ion is negatively charged. Conversely, a positive-charged ion has more protons than electrons. Now, DI water goes through a chemical process that uses these charges to remove these same ions to the solution.

However, both distilled water and DI water has its drawbacks. Here’s why:

As we have understood earlier, distilled water is obtained by heating the water, letting it evaporate, and then condensing into a separate container. In this process, the water can be separated from the contaminants. These impurities are left behind in the original dish. But we should remember that compunds have different boiling points. Those compounds that have boiling points between 68 and 212 degrees Fahrenheit are the only ones that removed; those over the boiling point of water do not. Moreover, the containers used can also contaminate the water that is being collected. For this reason, most water distillers also have a charcoal filter and/or a vent to allow for these extra chemicals to be removed from the water, resulting in close to 100% pure water.

what about DI water?

You can be assured that DI water gets rid of all ions but what it does not do, unlike distilled water, is remove viruses, bacteria, organics, and all other non-ionic compounds in the water.

Now, while it is illogical to believe that we can get rid of water pollutants altogether at 100 percent, there are other ways to make sure that we can exterminate as many as possible. For example, we can procure safer distilled water by combining distillation with carbon filtration. Studies show that a combination of the two boosts volatile organic compounds removal rates by almost 99.9 percent under typical conditions.

Like distilled water, the process of reverse osmosis can also be added aside from de-ionization. It is widely accepted that reverse osmosis can block salts and other minerals, as well as pathogens.

So far, the quest for the purest drinking water is found in distilled warer that also goes through carbon filtration.

Distilled Water for Pets

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Anyone who owns a pet will want what is best for it. The health of your pet is almost as important as the health of your kids because it is like another member of the family. Distilled water for pets is usually something many people think of a pet’s nutritional needs as similar to a human being’s nutritional needs. When a pet owner prepares a meal for themselves, how often do they feed their pet some food from the dinner table? It is very common and now the same thing is starting to happen with distilled water.

Pet owners are buying lots of gallon jugs of distilled water from the supermarket (which is actually very expensive, it is way cheaper to make distilled water at home from a counter top water distillers) and then using them to fill their pet’s drink bowl up with water. Even though distilled water will have a very good effect on the health of a human, the health of a pet is a different matter. That is why they should never be given too much human food because their bodies aren’t design to handle it. The same cannot be said of distilled water and Mineralized Distilled Water. Distilled water a couple of times a weeks can be very beneficial to pets and Mineralized distilled water is the safest water you can give a pet on a daily basis.

The most common household pet is a dog. We commonly fill their dog dish up with water from the sink and don’t think anything else about it. But these days, we hear so much debate and controversy over which water is healthy to drink and which is not healthy. It makes us think the same concepts apply to pets as well. It is true that tap water from the sink is indeed not the best quality, as it contains many impurities and chemical contaminants so it is a good thing that pet owners have doubts about giving that faucet water to their pets.

So, now the pet owners that drink distilled water will also give it to their dogs while thinking they will be healthy too. The truth is dogs that consume distilled water over long periods of time may not be completely healthy because unlike humans, pets may be deficient of important minerals in their body that may not be completely available in their food. Pure distilled water will be beneficial to pets only if given two or three times a week. It will help them with digestion and may even help urinate better.

Reports have shown dogs that drink nothing but distilled water might get potassium deficiencies and eventually develop heart problems. You have to remember that distillation removes the minerals from the water, which are vital for the health of your dog. While we humans get ALL the minerals we need from foods, dogs and some other pets do get some amount from their water. These minerals keep a dogs muscles strong, since they walk around on four legs and have to use their muscles very often. You should also remember that a dog’s immune system is a lot stronger than a human immune system.

If your dog is drinking lots of tap water, however, you should worry about the impurities and chemical contaminants that might get into their system. For this reason, the best course of action for a pet is to drink distilled water with minerals added to it. Their immune system is strong by nature because they are supposed to be drinking natural spring water directly from the earth. Their bodies will absorb the essential minerals and bypass the contaminants which are bad. So, just give your dog Mineralized Distilled water by given them the same distilled water you drink but by adding minerals to it.

Distilled Water for Bathing

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You have probably heard about people that like to drink distilled water, but what about those that want to bathe in it? The concept is not too popular amongst people because no one ever figured that you could fill an entire bathtub with distilled water to take a bath in. However, there are people that do it because they feel it is better for their skin. With all of the impurities gone from the distilled water, there won’t be any left to infect your skin or cause bad acne.

Most people these days take showers anyways, so what’s the solution there? Well more water purification companies have come out with shower filters that remove chlorine and harmful

your body can absorb more chlorine in a 1-minute shower than from drinking 8 glasses of the same water. This filter solves that problem by removing almost all of the Chlorine (Click picture to Learn more)

impurities from the water before it hits your body. Since most people like to take hot showers, they will definitely want to have these impurities removed from their water. After all, hot water will open up the pores of the skin, which will allow dangerous pollutants to clog up your pores and enter the bloodstream. If you continue to let this happen to your skin over a long period of time, then your chances of getting cancer will greatly increase. That is why it is a worthy investment to buy a water head filter that can protect your skin from these hurtful pollutants. The picture on the side shows of a Very popular shower filter available on Amazon.

You may be interested in bathing in distilled water, but you probably won’t feel like buying lots of one gallon jugs of distilled water at your local grocery store. There are two choices you have in this case. You can use the water filter on the shower head and fill up the bathtub through the shower that way – It won’t be distilled water, but better than nothing. But, if you want the purest possible water in your bathtub then you should buy an automatic water distiller (also known as a whole house water distiller). You may have to shell out a few hundreds of dollars. However, they can generate up to 42 gallons of distilled water per day to use within the plumbing of your household. That way anytime you turn on your faucet, take a shower or draw yourself a bath, the distilled water will be coming out of it. This requires a commercial plumber that is experienced with distillers to come and make this hookup for you. Call your local plumbing company to find out more information about this. You would probably only be interested in going to this extreme if you have super sensitive skin or a weak immune system that is prone to sickness from water impurities or if you want the convenience of pure water every time you turn on the faucet.

Example of a Larger fully automatic Water Distiller (Click the Picture to learn more)

If you’re going to be taking Baths or showers in Distilled water, The picture on the left shows a water distiller that can produce large amounts of Distilled Water very fast.

Simple description of Distilled Water

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There are plenty of types and brands of distilled water that are available for purchase and you can also make your own distilled water.  Distilled water is water that has had its impurities removed by being distilled.  This involves boiling the water and condensing the steam into a container usually a clear on.

Many people drink distilled water because tap or regular water can sometimes have an overabundance of minerals in it or it may be contaminated.  Often sales of distilled water will rise drastically when there is a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake as water supplies can be contaminated and distilled water is a better choice.

Distilled water can be used for multiple things besides just drinking.  Often it is suggested that distilled water be used for automotive purposes because it does not contain the chemicals that are found in tap water.  Also many people will use it for their aquariums at home for the same reasons there are less chemicals which means less of a mineral build-up and healthier fish, however, for aquariums, some minerals need to be added to the water.

There has been some debate over whether drinking distilled water is beneficial or can actually harm your health.  Many things that you need those extra minerals that are found in tap water to have a healthy body while others say that those minerals are the cause of health problems.

Distilled water can also be called purified water.  There are plenty of brands of distilled water to choose from and some claim to come from ancient wells and the streams that have been purified by volcanic rocks.  However, this just be purified water.  Having distilled water on hand is a great way to be prepared just encase you need water in an emergency.  Flooding can really cause problems with water sources as ground water can contaminate and leak into areas that it is not supposed to be including your drinking water sources.  If this is the case then having bottled water on hand is a great thing to have.

Drinking distilled water is essential to staying healthy and in replenishing your body’s water supply.  If you are worried about drinking your tap water then you can always purchase and drink distilled water, or make your own at home through countertop or whole house water distillers.