Spa Clarifiers

What Causes Cloudy Hot Tub Water?

A cloudy hot tub is, as you might expect, the result of dirty water. Over time, bits of dirt, oil, hair, and skin flakes will wash off your body along with tiny particles of cosmetic products like fake tan and hair gel. All these tiny bits will circulate around your hot tub system until they’re picked up by your filter. However, some of these particles are so tiny that they’ll keep slipping through your filter. Eventually, they’ll lead to murky, unappealing, and unhygienic water – but luckily, there’s a simple solution to stop this from happening.

How to Clear Cloudy Hot Tub Water

Adding a little spa clarifier to your hot tub water will give you crystal clear water in a matter of minutes. Keep adding a small amount of clarifier liquid every week to maintain your water and prevent it from clouding up again. It works by making all the tiny particles of dirt in the water cling together, meaning your filter can pick them up much more easily. This effect isn’t instant, as it depends on having your water circulate around the tub first, but within a few minutes you’ll have crystal clear spa water.

Problems Caused by Murky Water

The main issue that comes with dirty water is one of hygiene. That cloudiness is caused by millions of particles of dead skin, hair, dirt, skin oil, old fake tan, make-up, and all sorts of other things. It’s fair to say you probably don’t want to bathe in it! Adding a dash of spa clarifier will make your hot tub water much more appealing for you and any guests in the tub, so you’ll all have a much more relaxing time.

Cloudy water also makes your filter’s job much easier, so you’ll find your filter cartridges last a bit longer. You’ll still have to clean and maintain them using some filter cleaner, but regular spa clarifier treatments should make this easier.

If your water starts to get cloudy, this also makes it much more likely you’ll end up with a mountain of thick, clingy foam whenever you run your hot tub. This foam can quickly overtake your entire hot tub, turning a relaxing, bubbly spa session into a foam party in minutes. Foam is often the result of dirty hot tub water, and while you can temporarily dissolve it using some Anti-Foam, you won’t be getting to the root of the problem.

Using Spa Clarifier as a Regular Treatment

You should regularly use spa clarifier around once a week even if your water doesn’t appear to be cloudy. This will prevent the build-up of dirt particles in your water and will stop it from going cloudy in the first place. Usually, these regular treatments use less solution than bigger treatments, so you’ll get more out of every bottle of spa clarifier you use.

Changing Your Water

You shouldn’t use spa clarifier as a replacement for changing your water. You should still drain and refill your tub in line with your manufacturer’s recommendations as normal.