20 Best Filters For Hard Water (2023 Updated)

I’m happy to have purchased this shower head. It was money well spent. It’s a great value that performs with quality. I have noticed a difference in my hair, skin and nails. I recommend this to everyone if you haven’t installed at filtered shower head.

What I like about it most is the compact design. Its small, that’s t how I like things.

This is by far the best shower head I have ever bought and used. Dont be fooled by its light weight and compact size. When you turn it on you feel like youre in a spa. I literally didnt want my shower to end but water is not cheap.

so Ill have to wait until my next shower.

1. Very satisfied with the turnaround time. 2. Works great. The pressure has Increase With The new shower heads. .

I have used this filter in two homes Ive lived in. It is a simple to change filter canister. There is a pressure release valve mounted on top. (I installed a valve on either side of the filter eliminating any pressure from gravity).

I use the lubricant once in a while. I don’t over tighten. My water pressure is 45psi it should never be more than 55, most sink and toilet hardware will fail under higher pressure. I usually go 4 months between changes.

I have municipal water.

I am displeased with the filtration device because it is so awkward to reload the filter. The filters don’t last very long, and I am getting a black film in my toilets. When first connected, the new filters are flushed through to a nearby sink resulting in a rush of black particles that dissipates quickly.

I question if the filter may be continuing to release carbon particles into the system?.

I got the RKIN zero installation countertop water filter system and I absolutely love it! I love that it’s a reverse osmosis system that completely filters everything out of the water and then the last stage adds the minerals back in and raises the ph to alkaline.

I didn’t just assume it did any of this either. I purchased digital ph and tds meters and tested my tap, previous PUR filter, RKIN filtered water, as well as the waste water from the system. My tap water ended up being fairly high in tds and ph.

My old PUR filter dropped a lot of the ph but actually ended up making the water acidic which was surprising and disappointing. Then the water filtered by my RKIN was exactly where I wanted it to be.

Low in tds but high in ph. It’s amazing that it can strip the water of everything and purify it and then adding the important minerals back in and making its ph around 8 give or take. The waste water was high in tds and still alkaline in ph, which I was very happy about because it let me know that the filtration system was doing its job but also I love that I can use the waste water for my many plants and now my plants are thriving from it.

So technically it’s a zero waste system because I drink the water it filters and my plants benefit from everything else. I haven’t been using this system for long enough to know how durable it is but I can tell that it is made really well and not cheap in any way.

The filters only have to be replaced once a year and two years for the reverse osmosis filter so overall I think this is a super win. People might shy away from this unit due to the price but I felt that with how much I’ll save from not having to buy bottled water or cheap pointless PUR filters (which btw are crazy overpriced for how well they don’t work and how they don’t last for as long as these filters not to mention the fact that they turned my alkaline water to acidic by about two whole numbers makes me think they are a completely fake and dead product that does nothing good for anyone that buys them.

) This countertop filtration system is probably good for maybe up to two people otherwise you’ll be refilling the base a lot. For me, I got a sealed water pitcher so I filter the water and put it in the pitcher to store in the fridge along with many reusable water bottles so I have plenty at anytime.

It took me about a month of research regarding many products and this was the one I landed on and I cannot express enough how happy I am with it. I hope in the future they create another that is similar but with a bigger reservoir and that is when I will upgrade.

I will definitely be a customer for a very long time if not for life and I highly recommend to anyone who is wanting the best water in their own home and not some cheap store bought load of ****. This is the real deal.

Elegant, efficient, effective and everything I wanted it to be and then some. And, my cat also loves the water and drinks more. Ps. Taking this water and chilling it in the fridge makes some of the best ice cold water I’ve ever had.

I live in Portland Oregon now and the water here is great but I’m from Montana and we had amazing water quality there as well. But now that I’ve had RKIN, it’s pure filtered alkaline water at its best and so I use it everything.

Highly recommend it for putting in your coffee pot as well. My first cup was like night and day from using my old PUR filter’s water for coffee. I live in a fairly small apartment and didn’t want to mess with the under sink sort of filters so this is the best (in my opinion) alternative if you want the BEST possible water.

After all, the body is made up of ~70% water so for me I want the best water. Now I’ve got it and I couldn’t be happier! Thanks RKIN and please keep up the good work!.

I have really appreciated having this product in my home. I rent and its a lot to think about installing reverse osmosis in the home. That being said there are some complaints I have. I despise having to hold the lever to fill water.

I don’t like that there is no way to know if the filters are working and the water is clean. The most frustrating thing is we haven’t had this product long and it leaks terribly. Puddles. Like we go through towels and paper towels to deal with the leaking.

We have had it for about a year and a half. That is a really expensive product to have to replace every year and a half to two years. I see now that the product is said to only have a two year life this seems wasteful to me.

So now I am sitting here wondering if I am going to purchase the second filter or move on. I know the new version is coming out but that also is expected to last only two years. I don’t get it. Not sure if I recommend this product.

The title pretty much says it all. I’ve had this thing since Christmas 2017 and filtered thousands of gallons through it since. It is now June 2018, I am still getting small particles of carbon through in my water.

It is a significant amount, with about 20-30 particles coming out when running the water through the filter for the first 2-3 seconds. It happens the most when it hasn’t been used for a while, so I have to leave the water running for about 10-15 seconds before there are no carbon particles in my glass or in my pot, and even then sometimes I will find a few of them that slip through the steady stream.

The water has an improved taste, but I certainly wouldn’t call it clean when there are black particles in my water. I will not be buying this product again.

Just received my 2nd clearwater4less water purifier. First one lasted almost 3 years and was the best drinking water! The name is not on the machine and it took a while to find it again but will not use any other purifier.

No aftertaste. I am unable to drink bottled water so this is perfect!.

I have owned 2 of the Clean and Pure water filters, and this is my first CleanWater4Less, and so far I love it. The difference is not only in the handsome design, but this is where the water diverter makes a real difference.

The one with the black plastic diverter fails to keep hot water from flowing into the filter. The one included with this is simply on or off. I think it is also easier to replace the diverter if necessary.

I love this unit and the diverter it comes with.

This is my third cartridge and I go through one 1500l cartridge every 12 months. Delivery from SaveMoneyCutCarbon is great and that is why I repeat my order with them. The cartridges also work well and take out the chlorine smell very well.

Two words of caution. When fitting make sure the seals are sitting in the groves perfectly otherwise you will have a leak and secondly the latest 1500 cartridge is substantially bigger than the last one of the same capacity.

This came as a surprise to me and only just fits in due to the extra length- check to make sure you will not have an issue accommodating the larger dimensions.

Although I prefer the previous, larger version, this revised Grohe version works bit doesn’t seem to have the same life span – documentation is unchanged but real performance seems challenge that. Given its the only make that fits there’s no real option.

Price was competitive, and delivery punctual.

Easy to find a replacement but fitting instructions could do with clear simple instructions on how to replace. In the end it was so easy but when you are not engineer minded, you are never sure if what you think is the right thing to do is going to be a problem.

YouTube came to the rescue, but for a 5 minute job, 30 minutes to do the research is ridiculous. Come on Grohe, you can do better than this!.

Our lifesource water system was ~11 years old and the family had been noticing a taste to our water for a while, I had done tons research and comparisons and frankly the springwell CF+ was cheaper and I could replace the carbon myself in 10 years where with lifesource it would again be another system in 10+ years.

Springwell was ~$1600 lifesource ~$3500. No brainer. About 10 days later my CF+ system arrived from Florida (I am in California), I will say the directions for me were pretty straight forward and I figured I would install using PVC, got the adapters and fittings and installed the unit after 3 days of soaking, the water tasted like the PVC adhesive, not happy.

So next morning (kicking myself because I should have used copper anyway) went and got copper fittings and adapters. The setup was already laid out since I had installed prior with PVC so installation went fairly well, as well as someone who doesn’t normally work with sweating copper but has done it before can go.

Unit installed turned the taps on in the house and let it run for a few minutes and water tasted fantastic. We are on city water so its decent in the first place it just has lots of chlorine in it and we don’t like that taste.

We are VERY HAPPY with the SpringWell CF+ purchase and will recommend this to our neighbors, only thing I would suggest is to install with copper or PEX from the start its just worth it. Installation tips for the CF+: Use Copper 1-1/2″ copper fittings use allot of Blue Monster ptfe teflon (really good stuff) tape to prevent leaking from the head units.

(I think I wrapped each fitting around 20 wraps) Install 2 or 3 copper unions, this makes tightening a fitting or working on the system so much easier when you can just un-connect the unit via these unions, not cheap, but very worth it! Be careful when using copper mpt fitting into head unit or filter, copper if over-tightened / over-inserted can and will break plastic.

I love these filters because they get the job done with really hard water and the shower head creates the best spa-like flow with great pressure. Nothing compares so I keep coming back–and I’ve tried many filter/head combos.

But every time I have to install these I need to make adjustments to keep it from leaking somewhere on the fixture. EVERY time. It might help if there weren’t so many threads on all the male connections? And since the connections are mostly plastic, using a wrench scratches the surface or worse, cracks the actual connection.

Often times I’m dealing with some sort of small drip, no matter how much plumbers tape I use, or attempts at getting an exact connection. Eventually the leak gets to be too much and the lime from the hard water builds up and I need to replace the entire system sooner than the recommended time, like every 3 months, the WHOLE fixture.

This bums me out because as I mentioned before, this is the best out there, but I’m tired of shelling out money to replace the whole fixture every 3 months. Can you guys maybe tweak the connections somehow?.

This thing CHANGED MY LIFE. Seriously. My hair used to be dry dry dry, tangled easily, just overall very unhappy hair. I tried every product under the dang sun, but nothing helped. I also had a very itchy scalp that couldn’t be allayed with any topical solution or medicated shampoo.

My dermatologist suggested that I might be having an allergy or other contact reaction to something in the environment, and many clicks later the internet lead me to the concept of “hard water. ” The minerals can bond to your hair and prevent conditioners and other hydrating compounds from doing their thing.

It can also cause itchiness and flaking skin. Then I learned that, surprise, I live in a state with notoriously hard water due to the aquifer. Turns out I’d been showering in mineral-heavy water for years and never knew.

We bought this and installed it and used a clarifying conditioner to remove the mineral buildup as suggested. holy cow. MY HAIR. It flows. It shines. It’s soft and silky to the touch. And on top of that, my scalp doesn’t itch anymore and my wife’s dandruff has disappeared.

We were both sensitive to the hard water and had no idea! Go figure. So yeah, I recommend this 1000%, especially if you’re dealing with relentlessly dry hair or an itchy scalp. What do you have to lose?.

I was very excited to purchase two of the shower head systems. When I opened the outer shipping box that contained the two inner boxes. I noticed one was sealed in a plastic bag unopened. The other box did not have the plastic bag.

After further inspection opening the unsealed box. Everything was in disarray. There was scratches on the shower head where it mounts to the filter. After opening both filters it appeared item had been previously used.

I am highly disappointed that this item was even sent out as a new purchase. Both of the items work well. I am not one that enjoys going through the process of sending items back unless they don’t function properly.

Hope you guys can make this right. If not I will not be recommending your product to anyone. Great item just someone made a bad judgement call delivering a used item as new. Thank you for your time.

I live in an apartment and am unable to install any kind of whole house water filtration system. This was very easy to install. I have very hard water and you can smell the chlorine. I have been looking for a shower filter and I decided to give this a try.

The first thing I noticed was that the chlorine smell was gone. Other than that, it is hard for me to quantify the difference between using this filter vs not using it. I do have a water TRS meter, so I tested the filtered shower water vs the unfiltered water that came out of the tub spout and I got a reading of 262 vs 259 respectively.

So if I am solely relying on the TRS meter to quantify the difference, there doesn’t seem to be any. I will likely continue to use this product because it eliminates the chlorine smell.

My hair dresser suggested I look into a shower head filter for my hard water because my hair kept splitting and she could see the damage it was causing my hair. We even have a water softener! It was the best suggestion she could have made! After my second shower I could feel how smooth my skin was.

No dry itchy skin, my hair is silky smooth. My hair dresser is going to see the difference when I see her next. I love how easy it was to install. We have a filter on two showers and installed them in under 10 minutes total.

What I ordered came with replacement cartridges, so I marked on the box the 6 month replacement date so I’ll always have filtered shower water.

So far the water filter system is good. Water tasted good and I am more comfortable drinking tap water or using it in cooking now, since recently there’s been a lot of water main issues in our surrounding towns and even some boil water alert.

Having a filter under the sink puts me at ease a bit. The reason I rated it 4 stars is due to 2 reasons. First, cold water pressure is taking a hit, it’s just how it works. So now even with just turn the water a little bit towards the hot side, it gets hot a lot faster than before.

I need to warn my son to be very careful using the kitchen sink faucet because of this. Second, after you don’t use the faucet for a few hours (or overnight), the initial water comes out in foam and frizzes, kind of like the frizzes from a can of soda.

I’ve contacted Clearly Filtered, they said it is normal, but it’s just a little weird. I’ve had the filter for quite a few weeks now, it still caught me by surprise sometimes. That said, I think it’s still a very solid choice to filter water.

We are very happy with this water filtration system! I was kind of skeptical about it and I was hesitant to purchase it based on some reviews. It is the best tasting water that I’ve probably ever had.

Even my parents who are not picky about water commented how good the water is. The water is slow when you put the cold water on because it has to go through the filter, but not when you use the hot water because its not going through the filter then.

Its really not an issue at all. I wish the price of the filters were cheaper, since we are a big family and will have to replace them sooner. However, I highly recommend this system and I would buy it again.

So far, magnificent! The ‘cloudy water’ at first was a little disturbing, given that the water to the house had to be turned off to trick out the under-sink. I’m on a well, and water turned brown on returning from ‘off.

‘ Even though the filtered water was NEVER brown — the bubbles made it cloudy and had me concerned, until I read the instructions you sent with the filter system. All good. Explanations are invaluable to people who never read the directions — and probably to those who do.

gulp.

This product in and of its self does what is expected. I can see the debris when I change the filter! The issues are that the electric indicator on the top of our unit completely stopped working after the very first filter change.

I “rinsed the top” and “changed the battery”, but it never responded or lit up again which defeats it purpose. It also leaves one to guess when to change it out, which is not the best, because each water source had different sediment and/or contamination levels requiring filter changes at different intervals to ensure optimal benefits.

The other issue is the effort of changing the filter, I mean, we unseal the unit from the base, rinse out the parts, attached the new filter and then the nonsense of it leaking out the top or continuing to drip after you fully shut off the water is becoming the “norm” at every filter change.

We thought it was the filter, but it had happened three time in one year, so.

Awesome. In an apartment temporarily without a filtered refrigerator. After drinking 6+ bottles of “bottled water” daily, included Smart Water, had to find a better solution. Looked at Brita but remembered the ’80s when I had several Multi-Pure Carbon-Filtered silver countertop system.

After searching, found the dream. Happy since mid-Jan 2022!.

I was introduced to it by my roommates at my old apartment had it. I liked it so much, I bought one for myself when I moved into my own apartment. When the lights on the filter were not operating, I simply emailed support and they got new parts sent to me immediately.

My water filter is working as expected and I’m so glad to have peace of mind and clean water for health! One of my most valuable purchases.

I bought this to replace a rental reverse osmosis unit. I am very pleased so far. This unit was very easy to install. I did it myself in about 10 minutes. The water is clear and sparkly. The chlorine odor is gone and the taste is much improved from the tap water taste.

Nice budget choice.

This filter really makes a difference. I was very skeptic at first but not anymore after drinking water from the tap. Great taste quality , glad that I can cut off plastic bottles production from store bought waters :).

We’ve had this installed for about a month and it is working great. I can now wake-up and drink the water from the bathroom sink where the older pipes in our house were worrying me, the water tastes and smells better.

Now I wish there was one for the hot water side when washing my face!.

I have well water so I have to have a filter for my shower or my blonde hair ends up red because of the iron thats also in it. I can always tell when my filter needs replaced because my skin will get so dry and itchy and no matter how much I spend on products they wont work because of the hard water.

The same with my hair, gets really frizzy and unmanageable even though I usually have nice hair. Its crazy how water can do such crazy things to your skin and hair. Ive spent a lot of money on shower filters and couldnt believe that this would work because it was so adorable and got it home and it actually worked so now Im going to buy one for every bathroom in the house and probably some for family.

Thank you so much for making this!!.

This is the first time using the filter. So far my hair has been soft and no clorine smell is evident. Time will tell on how long the filter will last. My last filter was prone to leakage but it had replaceable cartridges to insert.

This filter is hard take apart to remove the filter insert. I will replace the whole filter, and it can be easily done by hand, No tools required!.

It’s comforting to know I’m now immersing my face and body in filtered water with no more worries of Chlorine, Lead or any other nasty contaminants. I’m having better hair days, my skin feels smoother and no longer itches.

This filtered shower water just feels, smells and works better. I’m so glad I invested in myself and my health. My body is no longer soaking in potentially dangerous, toxic or contaminated water. YAY! A+.