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Using a water filter with your bidet toilet seat has two primary benefits:  (1) the internal “plumbing” of your bidet stays clean and, (2) you’re using filtered water to clean one of the most sensitive parts of your body.

Inside your bidet seat there are a series of hoses, water reservoirs, and other parts where water runs through.  Through this system, your toilet bidet seat funnels water from your tap to the heating system, then out to the spray outlet and through the tip of the wash nozzle.  Using clean, filtered water helps keep this system clean and free of sediment build-up.  A good analogy is if you’ve ever looked through an old pipe when getting the plumbing redone at your house.  You can see the sediment build-up inside the walls of the pipe – sometimes, there’s so much build-up you wonder how the water got through there!  Similarly, using a water filter will help prevent this type of build-up within the internal parts of your bidet toilet seat.

Now let’s move on to our second reason for using a bidet water filter.  Needless to say, there certainly are benefits of using filtered water to clean one of the most sensitive parts of your body.  You wouldn’t want any contaminants or bacteria hitting you there.  Especially when you consider that bidet water filters are relatively cheap, and can be installed in minutes.

There are generally two types of bidet water filters, carbon filters and iodine filters.  Carbon filters work through a chemical process known as adsorption.  Not to be confused with “absorption,” adsorption is when the atomic charge of carbon encourages unwanted particles to abandon their bond with water.  Instead, these unwanted particles chemically attach to the carbon inside your bidet water filter.  The water then passes through the filter, cleansed of undesirable materials.

An iodine filter on the other hand, as the name implies, uses iodine to treat the water.  Adding a very small amount of iodine to the water stream will effectively sterilize the water.  You may remember when your mom used to treat your cuts and scrapes with a bit of iodine when you were younger.  She did that because iodine works as an antiseptic which actually kills bacteria.  It’s that similar concept which is being applied to the water filtration of your bidet toilet seat.

Installing a bidet water filter is really easy.  Behind your toilet, there’s a water outlet which is connected to your bidet seat with a hose.  This hose supplies tap water to your bidet toilet seat.  A bidet water filter is designed to be an extension of this hose really, with one female end and one male end.  After closing the water shut-off on your water outlet, unscrew the hose connecting to the water outlet.  Attach the female end of the filter directly on to the water outlet.  Then, reattach the hose to the male end of the filter.  Open the water shut-off valve, and check the area around your toilet bidet seat for leaks.

Replacing your bidet water filter every four to six months is recommended.

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