Distilled Water Vs Ionized Water

[catx]

Hi everyone!

Just a quick question...
I'm trying to rebuild my wicks; I've got my 100% organic pure cotton balls..
But I'm finding it hard to find distilled water.. Will ionized water work? My brother is 100% sure they are the same thing, I very much disagree (siblings eh!)

Does anyone know for sure? 
I know tap water is a no? I just want to be as safe as I can as I'm still a complete novice with vaping and also rebuilding!  


Thanks guys for any help/info!

Tracy x

[geordie_vaper]

what do you need the water for haha

[catx]

May 19, 2014 17:03:02 GMT geordie_vaper said:

what do you need the water for haha

Boiling said cotton! I thought that's what you are meant to do?  ???

[Roscopecotrain]

May 19, 2014 17:06:51 GMT catx said:

May 19, 2014 17:03:02 GMT geordie_vaper said:

what do you need the water for haha

Boiling said cotton! I thought that's what you are meant to do?  ???

I never boil mine. Just make sure i habe clean hands and in it goes.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[geordie_vaper]

oooh right haha!! emmm i think some people do some dont, i would be sure that good old council pop would be more then fine

[geordie_vaper]

i dont boil my balls either

[gill2009]

May 19, 2014 17:09:06 GMT geordie_vaper said:

i dont boil my balls either

 Ooooh & Ouch 

[jcol]

I dont boil either, i just use the cotton balls from Asda, the little angels range iirc.

Also if you ever decide to dilute VG, use distilled water as there is a difference to deionised water
link

Main points are
1.
"I spoke to the Boots Pharmacist today and asked if de-ionised water from hardware/car shops is safe to drink or inhale as vapour?
His answer was a straight NO!
De-ionised water from a car or hardware shop, is not fit for human consumption, by drinking or otherwise consumed.

I asked him what the alternative would be?
He suggested purified water, which is distilled and bottled in a sanitary manner."

2.
"uoted from another thread:
Deionised water is done by chemical treatment, it uses ion exchange to remove minerals and it is then recombined to make water, this removes heavy metals but not bacteria or viruses from the water. When using a deionised water from a supermarket should be safe from bacteria but they have most likely to have used chlorine to treat it so that kinda defeats the object
Some time ago everyone use to use deionised water from Halfords until we starting say hey that isn't a good thing to do apart from the chance that its likely to contain some form of bacteria that may lead to pneumonia or worse it actually has a strong chance it may contain the remnants of the base chemical that was used to start the ion exchange. Please remember that Halfords stuff is only produced for car batteries or cars, there is no thought about us vaping it when it was made. Same goes for the supermarket stuff.
In my opinion it is not safe to use, I am sure that some will disagree but the thought of vaping something that was made for car batteries, has harmful bacteria and could contain some base industrial chemical in it doesn't appeal to me sorry.

Distilled water is the process of boiling water then condensing the liquid and that has the effect of leaving any heavy materials or solid contaminants behind and leaving pure water. As long as the containers the water goes into are sterilized then it is bacteria free. Out of the two it is the safest option in my opinion."

[ronaldo]

I don't boil my balls and if I did I would use tap water because boiling sterilisers so water is safe
unlike bottled water I have done thousands of tests on it and I can 100% tell you tap water is safer than any bottled water I know I have done the tests

[spikus]

What a phaff..! .... I don't boil my balls either .... Complete waste of time and effort

[ronaldo]

well I think we all agree waste of time boiling your balls leave them natural better for you

[upgrader]

I would imagine if any bacteria were present then the nicotine in any juice would see them off:-)

[Deleted]

It never ceases to baffle me why people who have smoked tobacco full of carcinogins for years suddenly become paranoid about the purity of cotton wool and water

[Aldo]

I never boil my balls... but then again I don't have cotton in them...

Or should it be:

I never boil my cotton, but I also don't get it in balls....

oh man... I'm sorry, I'm not native english so I get confused sometimes

Bottom line is: don't boil it, no need

[alansi]

If you wash cotton with this, you may use this setup with just adding nic base - no aroma neded: