A humidifier is a machine that increases moisture in a room or house. It helps prevent the cold air from giving you dry skin, itchy eyes, sinus headaches, a sore throat, and cracked lips. A humidifier is also frequently used in rooms of infants and young kids. Another advantage of using a humidifier is that low humidity makes the air feel colder than it actually is, so adding a humidifier can help warm up a room. Dry air can also be bad for the wood in the floor and walls of your house, causing the floors to creak and the the drywall and plaster to crack, so using a humidifier can help prevent this.

When buying a humidifier, you have 2 main choices: a cool mist humidifier or a warm mist humidifier. More specifically, listed below are some of the different types of humidifiers:

Steam Humidifier or Vaporizer – As the name indicates this humidifier controls the humidity of a room by boiling water and releasing the steam. Steam humidifiers can be an ideal solution for someone who is looking for a budget deal. The mechanism of this humidifier does not have any kind of complexity, which is why the price is less compared to the others. Though the cheap price is the major selling point of these humidifiers, it offers health benefits too. Someone who often gets a cough during the cold winter can add medicated inhalant in the humidifier for reducing cough related problems.

Ultrasonic Humidifier – Someone who is ready to invest a bit extra for a cool mist humidifier can opt for the ultrasonic humidifier models. It uses metal diaphragm vibration technology for creating tiny droplets of water to add the required humidity to a room. As these humidifier models hardly make any sound one can sleep well keeping the humidifiers on all night.

Evaporative Humidifier – This type of humidifier is not only used for domestic purposes but also are quite a popular humidity control solution for commercial set ups. Regulating the humidity of a larger area is often a tricky task. This humidifier has self-regulating system, which helps it increase or decrease the water vapor production depending on the relative humidity of the day. The evaporative humidifier also known as the wick system humidifier uses foam wick, paper or cloth for sweeping water from the reservoir and get it spread to the entire room by blowing the fan on which the paper or cloth is set.

Impeller Humidifier – This type of humidifier is ideal for places with dry and hot weather conditions. It uses rotating disc for diffusing water droplets into the entire room. The diffusing technology that is used in this cool humidifier makes water droplets float like cool fog in the air.