You have to feed water conditioners a constant diet of salt. Water softeners need a constant diet of salt . It requires no service or maintenance of any kind. It has no moving parts and cannot break. Water softeners drive up your water bill.
Water softeners waste a lot of water.
This drives up your water bill. If you use reverse osmosis to remove the unhealthy sodium added by the water conditioner, then your water bill goes up even more. This is because reverse osmosis wastes a lot of water. Even the best units waste a gallon for every drinkable gallon they produce. Home Water-Conditioning System sold here, uses no extra water.