Alternatives to
Conventional Water Softeners
With a conventional soft water system, hard water minerals are
merely exchanged with sodium when a water softener is used. As a
result, you often end up with salt water problems instead of hard
water problems. Thus, an alternative to conventional water softeners
is to use a product such as the LifeSource Whole-House Water System
because you obtain clean drinking water by using their
maintenance-free system. This system avoids the use of salts or
chemicals.
There is a solution to hard water problems when it comes to doing
your laundry. The adverse effects from calcium and magnesium can be
eliminated with certain chemicals that are added to hard water in
the form of laundry detergents. These detergents include water
softening chemicals within their formulas. Two brands of such
detergents are Sal Soda and Calgon. Sal soda detergent is composed
of calcium and magnesium that is combined to form solid particles.
During the washing process, the particles combine with dirt
particles and are eliminated during the washing process. The only
drawback to this detergent is that your laundry may not become
completely clean because the solid particles could cling to the
fabrics. Another detergent, Calgon, also combines calcium and
magnesium, but these compounds remain in the solution. The drawback
to this product is environmental in nature because it contains a
high phosphate content.
The magnetohydrodynamics method is an alternative to conventional
water softening systems, although it does act in much the same
manner as a conventional system. Magnetohydrodynamics uses
magnetically conditioned water to prevent scale from forming on
heated surfaces. The water is moved through the earth by dissolving
minerals and retaining them as salts in a solution. The water will
form a directional field to maintain minerals in a suspension and
prevent them from forming scale. This method consists mainly of
calcium and magnesium. Since salt is eliminated from this method,
there will be no buildup, since it is salt that forms the buildup in
pipes and on other surfaces.
Another alternative to traditional water softeners is the catalytic
water softeners which utilize a catalyst combined with powerful
magnets to provide salt-free soft water.
It would benefit you to research these alternative methods to obtain
soft water in order to obtain the best soft water system for your
home.
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