Nursery Water? Distilled Water?

Are these two waters the same? Can I use "Nursery Water" in my humidifier? Thanks!

Hi Patsy,

I just started to use distilled water, as I was tired of having to clean the mineral build up in my water tank. I came across the nursey water too. If you look on the bottle you my see that it says something like distilled water with minerals added back.
My understanding is that we use the distilled water because it has all the minerals removed. Since the Nursery water has minerals put back after it is distilled, i believe it is going to cause the mineral build up.
Hopefully someone who has more knowlegde about this will be able to comment on this.

ditto. sleeping bear.

The minerals don't really hurt anything but after a while the minerals will build up in the water chamber and visually looks ugly. So we use distilled water to lessen any work needed to clean mineral deposits because we don't like the looks of the deposits.

I wouldn't be opposed to using Nursery water if distilled wasn't available and I have used tap water short term when distilled wasn't handy. Just rinse out and air dry the water chamber to limit the mineral build up if that sort of thing bothers you.

Thanks all for your comments. Never sending my husband to the store for distilled water again!

I have only ever used distilled and 6.5 years later my humidifier still looks new. I rarely wash it and my hoses are in perfect shape as well (they were washed once).

What is 'nursery water'?
Does the FDA have a definition?
Or is it just marketing labels?

ChunkyFrog,
I just took a quick look on the interwebs.
From nurserywater.com they give the following.
What makes Nursery® Water special?
Nursery® Water is steam distilled water with added fluoride so no boiling is necessary. Nursery® Water can be mixed directly with formula (refer to formula label instructions) or put in a bottle.
Nursery® Water uses DISTILLED WATER as its base. Distilled water is produced by filtering source water through sand and activated carbon to remove chlorine, unpleasant taste and odor, as well as sediment and trihalomethanes. This filtered water is converted to steam in a stainless steel distiller. Dissolved contaminants are left behind as the water is vaporized and condensed. The water is then bottled after being filtered through one-micron filters and ozonated. Finally, fluoride, in the amount of up to 0.7 ppm is added.

Looks like there is some people complaining to the FDA about the floride on a search i did because they claim children shouldn't have floride.

Sounds like marketing hype, at least the floride part. The distilled part, i read had to do with helping to give children the cleanest water, when they are more supseptible to things that might be in it. I don't know if I believe that, but that is what I read.
Never heard of the stuff until I was in Wally World and my mother grab the stuff thinking it was regular distilled water.

patsy wrote:Thanks all for your comments. Never sending my husband to the store for distilled water again!

Now what did you want from the store?

I use steam distilled water, available at Target, cheap.
Most distilled water is processed by reverse osmosis and ozonated. The ozone really bothers me so i stick to steam distilled only. Humidifiers last forever.

Read the labels. I think the "nursery" water I see is just distilled water labeled differently.

Distilled--I only use distilled. Even though my DME says I can use RO water --I still use distilled.
Carrie