A water purifier removes contaminants like bacteria, fluoride, and dissolved salts from drinking water. A softener specifically targets hardness minerals across your whole water supply, protecting appliances and plumbing. Many households benefit from both.
What a Purifier Does
A Reverse Osmosis purifier treats your drinking and cooking water at the point of use, removing bacteria, fluoride, dissolved salts, and sediment. It's focused on what you consume.
What a Softener Does
A softener treats water hardness, calcium and magnesium, across your whole home supply, reducing limescale on kettles, showerheads, and plumbing. It doesn't purify drinking water to the same standard as RO.
Do You Need Both?

The iClear Premier, part of the expanding product line moving beyond drinking-water purification toward whole-house treatment.
If your water is both high in TDS or fluoride and causing visible limescale, a purifier for drinking water plus a softener for the whole house addresses both problems at their source, rather than treating symptoms individually.
Ask about iClear's expanding product range.
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