Tip one: If you’re hydrating all day, filtered water is usually better. Your body actually likes those bonus minerals, and drinking pure distilled water for weeks can leach electrolytes from your system. It’s not dangerous, but it’s like eating plain white rice every meal—functional, but missing something.
Tip two: Use distilled water for your houseplants that are drama queens (ferns, calatheas, carnivorous plants). They hate the chlorine and fluoride found in tap, even filtered tap. But don’t use distilled for your orchid if you want blooms—it’s too sterile. Plants are fussy.
Tip three: Taste test. Fill two glasses—one distilled, one filtered—and close your eyes. Distilled tastes like a memory of rain. Filtered tastes like a clean river. Which one makes you take a second sip? That’s your answer.
