Natural Chemistry Instant Pool Water Conditioner

[chem geek]

There is a product by Natural Chemistry called Instant Pool Water Conditioner shown here (http://naturalchemistry.com/pool-and-spa-products/products/show/17). I wrote about this product on this forum in this thread (http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=8438"). It is basically a slurry of the sodium cyanurate salt which is why it dissolves much more quickly than Cyanuric Acid itself and is fairly close to pH neutral (unlike pure CYA which is acidic). Once in the water, it produces the same CYA as when using pure CYA. It is, however, about twice as expensive. So this is a cost/convenience tradeoff.

Patent 6,207,177 describes a process of making a slurry of sodium cyanurate, but I've communicated with the inventor of the Instant Pool Water Conditioner product and it is not based on this patent (i.e. it uses a different process for creating the slurry which was particularly challenging to make).

Richard

Richard

[aylad]

Thank you for researching and posting on this! It's nice to know it's available and not "snake oil".

Janet

[waterbear]

As a whole, NaturalChemistry products are not snakeoil. They do work as claimed but they are either:

1) very expensive such as their ascorbic acid stain remover,their proprietary salt mix that contains borax and cya, and their liquid stabilizer

2) not normally needed the vast majority of the time like their phosphate removers and enzymes (EVEN WHEN PHOSPHATE LEVELS ARE IN EXCESS OF 3000PPB!)

3) not the most effective like their EDTA based metal sequestrant that does not add phosphates (see #2 above!). HEDP is a much more effetive sequestrant (as found in most of the metal sequestrants on the market) but does break down into orthophosphates (Once again see #2 above!)