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Tap water is easy to access, but sometimes you need distilled water if you plan on making more complex DIY goodies, like homemade kitchen and bathroom cleaner. You should also use distilled water in humidifiers and other appliances since it has sterile qualities. If you take part in nasal rinsing, distilled water is the preferred type of water to use as well. In fact, earlier this year, a report highlighted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed to an increased risk of Acanthamoeba infection in people who used tap water to rinse out their nasal passages. Distilled water is free and easy to make with all-natural common household items that you likely already have. We’ll show you how to make it happen with just two pots, ice, tap water and a stove. For people suffering from sleep apnea who use CPAP machines or any other sort of humidifier, distilled water is essential. It’s also useful if you don’t want additional minerals in your water. (For example, distilled water won’t corrode automobile engine parts or create lime-scale buildup in aquariums and it’s easier on your home if you use it to make this all-natural cleaner.) If you live in a place with “hard” water, or water with lots of chemicals, you can even use distilled water to protect your hair when washing it. However, since distilled water doesn’t have minerals like calcium and magnesium, it tastes bland and isn’t the best for drinking. You can buy distilled water at your local grocery store or on Amazon, but making it home will save you money and keep a few plastic jugs out of the recycling system. Learning to make this bacteria-free water at home will also save you if the store is out of stock.

Tap water is the easy one. Turn on your kitchen faucet. Water comes out the tap. Voila! Tap water. The quality of tap water varies by location, and might contain traces of minerals specific to the geology of your region, as well as traces of chemicals used in municipal water treatment. Hopefully your tap water is safe to drink, but that’s not true for as many as 45 million Americans. Filtered water is one solution. Filtered water starts out as plain tap water. You may already have filtered water in your home by way of a whole-house filtration system, a faucet filter or a water filtration pitcher (you can even get a filtered water bottle). Most filtered water passes through some combination of carbon and micron filters, which help to remove chemicals such as chlorine (commonly added to municipal tap water as a disinfectant) and pesticides, and metals like copper or lead. Filters can also eliminate foul odors and tastes. Purified water usually begins as tap water as well. It will go through many purification processes, including those used for water filtration. Purified water goes a step further than filtering, with a process that removes chemical pollutants, bacteria, fungi and algae. You’ll often find purified water in bottles at your local grocery. Distilled water is a more specialized type of purified water, but much easier and cheaper to produce at home. As with purified water, it meets the classification requirement of 10ppm (parts per million) of total dissolved solids, aka contaminants, or less. The process of distilling is simple: Heat tap water to the point that it turns to vapor. When the vapor condenses back to water, it leaves behind any mineral residue. The resulting condensed liquid is distilled water. Distilled water is completely safe for use, but the downside of distilling is that it removes all of the helpful minerals like calcium and magnesium that occur naturally in tap water. For that reason, it isn’t generally recommended to use distilled water as your daily drinking water. You might also find that it lacks the flavor of tap or filtered water. If stored properly, distilled water can have a long shelf life, as long as it’s not exposed to direct sunlight or warm temperatures. Choose the storage container you use for distilled water carefully. Distilled water’s lack of nutrients can cause it to leach chemicals from the container it’s stored in. If you plan to use the water immediately, most containers will do fine, but for long-term storage it’s best to use glass or high-quality stainless steel. Making distilled water is like a fun science project. Not to get too scientific here, but this is exciting for me. We’ll be using water in all three of its known states — solid, liquid and gas. The gist is this: You heat water (liquid), turn it into water vapor (gas), then collect the condensation with the aid of ice (solid). It’s like middle school science class all over again. You’ll likely find everything you need in your kitchen. A large pot with a lid, a small pot, water, ice and oven mitts for handling the hot cookware. It does take some time for all this science to happen, so be prepared. In my example below, I started with 8 cups of water in the large pot. After 1 hour, I had produced about 1 1/4 cup of distilled water. To recreate a gallon jug that you’d find in the supermarket you’d need about 13 hours of distilling time. If you follow these steps, you should get near 100% yield, but whatever amount of distilled water you want to end up with, make sure to add additional water so you don’t end up heating an empty pot(s) at the end of the process, which can damage cookware. Ice speeds up the condensation process.

• Água potável é facilmente acessível, mas às vezes você precisa de água destilada se pretende fazer itens DIY mais complexos, como limpadores caseiros de cozinha e banheiro.
• Água destilada é essencial para pessoas que sofrem de apneia do sono que usam máquinas CPAP ou qualquer outro tipo de umidificador.
• Fazer água destilada em casa é uma maneira econômica e eficaz de garantir um suprimento de água purificada e livre de bactérias.