Checking prices at various retailers (WalMart, Amazon, etc), you’ll notice that the Ionic Pro Compact Air Purifier runs about half the price of standard Ionic Pro Air Purifiers, or the Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier.  So, if you’re not sure if your room qualifies as “small”, which is typically anything less than 500 square feet, you could always get one Ionic Pro Compact Air Purifier and, if it doesn’t feel like it’s doing the job, get another, and put them on either side of the room.  Honestly I’m not sure that that wouldn’t be more effective that one Ionic Pro Air Purifier anyway.  It seems to me that filtering from two different places, with twice the air-flow, would be preferable.  However, you’d have to make space for two ionic air purifiers instead of one, so that might be a problem for some people.

With the exception of a missing “Med” setting (it has a Lo and Hi only), the Ionic Pro Compact Air Purifier lacks none of the features, or benefits, of the regular Ionic Pro Ionic Air Purifier.  Just be sure to clean the little bar off when it starts to buzz, and that’s the extent of any maintenance, just like with the Ionic Breeze Air Purifiers.  However, one huge difference between the Ionic Pro Compact Air Purifier and the Ionic Breeze Air Purifier is that you can actually find the Ionic Pro.

Remember, ionic air purifiers are not intended for use in situations where there’s a real health risk.  If a doctor has suggested that you use a true HEPA air purifier, this is not a direct replacement, and is not as effective.  For your everyday allergy sufferer, though, an ionic air purifier should do the trick at a much, much lower cost than a true HEPA air purifier.

Ionic Pro Ionic Air Purifier

Although the name may not be as popular yet, the Ionic Pro seems to have taken over as the king of ionic air purifiers. Will it last? Who knows. The cat is out of the bag as far as efficiency, and pretty much everyone knows that ionic air purifiers, while cheaper and quieter, are not as effective as HEPA air purifiers. The people that buy ionic air purifiers nowadays do so because they want a silent solution with no maintenance. Therefore, the Ionic Pro Air Purifier shouldn’t be in for the same drop in reputation that killed the original Ionic Breeze.

Generic Ionic Air Purifiers

Straight out of China (or wherever), there’s a ton of ionic air purifiers that can be had with no branding on them, usually for a good price. Good luck claiming on any warranties, though, should anything go wrong. Still, I would assume that they would work just as well as anything with a brand name on it.

Ionic Air Purifiers With Fans

You sacrifice the silence, but still keep the filter-free maintenance, all while increasing efficiency enough that Consumer Reports approves them. Sounds like a good bargain to me, if you can find one that’s not prohibitively expensive.

Ionic Breeze Air Purifiers

That’s right, they’re still out there, even if they are a challenge to find. There’s even multiple variations on the original, such as the Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier and the Ionic Breeze GP Air Purifier. Most reviews for these come two to three years ago, but there are still some places selling them as new. And, regardless of what Consumer Reports said about the Ionic Breeze, customer reviews are generally quite favorable. It’s hard to tell if The Sharper Image is still producing the Ionic Breeze with any name or variation, though, since it’s not listed on their website.  As most searches for the Ionic Breeze come up with the Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier, which went into production in 2003, well before The Sharper Image went bankrupt in 2008, I’d assume they’re no longer produced at all.

HEPA Air Purifier

You could always go the HEPA route. Keep in mind, True HEPA Air Purifiers have been around for a long time, and they’re the only thing used in sensitive fabrication environments and laboratories. They can, however, be quite noisy and expensive to maintain.  Click here for more information about HEPA Air Purifiers.

Besides, if you own an ionic air purifier at home or work, then you’re already spoiled to having nice, clean, odor-free air. A car air purifier costs a fraction of the price of a normal ionic air purifier, making it a great buy.

The Ionic Breeze Air Purifier offers many great features that made it one of the best selling ionic air purifiers on the market. The ultra-efficient electrostatic air cleaner is there to trap irritants, pollutants, and allergens on the collection blades. Therefore, there are never any filters to replace. All that needs to be done is occasionally slide the blades out of the machine and wipe them clean with a damp cloth.

The Ionic Breeze is suitable for average-sized rooms of around 350 square feet. The Zenion Effect technology moves air electronically, without need of a motor or fan, and produces no noise whatsoever. Charged particles are held to oppositely charged collectors that slide out for easy cleaning, which saves you money. These no replacement filters, along with low energy costs cause the Ionic Breeze Air Purifier to save its owners hundreds over HEPA filters.

The latest, and possibly last Ionic Breeze seems to be either the Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier, or the Ionic Breeze GP Air Purifier.  There doesn’t seem to be any major difference between the original, and these two later ones, aside from more recent production dates.  There is no evidence that any Ionic Breeze is still in production today, although it’s not hard to find an Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier being sold as new.

Newer homes can be more dangerous than older homes as they are built air tight. This means that no matter how little air pollution you think is in your home, it’s been building up since the home was built. Since these buildings are air tight, the natural air-cleansing agents such as negative ions and ozone are locked out, while contaminants a locked in the home for you to breathe. In super-insulated homes, which are designed to be more eco-friendly by reducing energy usage, allergen levels are 200% higher than normal homes. The fact that they’re air-tight could very well work in their favor with the addition of an ionic air cleaner. After the ionic air purifier cleans the air, it won’t be able to exit the home nearly as quickly as those older homes, nor will it be as quick to become re-contaminated.

Think you and your family are safe since you don’t smoke? Well, Scientific America says that a baby crawling about on your floor will inhale the equivalent of about 4 cigarettes per day, just from molds, mildews, dust mites, fungi, and the outgassing of the carpet itself. As your family probably spends well over 90% of their life indoors, the indoor air is going to have a far greater impact on their health than the air outdoors. An ionic air purifier would clean all that air that you breathe so much of your life, dramatically improving yours and your family’s health.

The EPA also says that over half the homes and buildings in the United States are what they deem “sick”. This means that, due to airborne pollutants, they are actually hazardous to your health. Imagine how much healthier you would be with an ionic air purifier. Remember when asthma was rare? The indoor air is the reason it’s become so much more prevalant.  Ionic air purifiers just may be the answer.

Seasonal allergy sufferers are especially happy about the clean breathing they are able to obtain with ionic air purifiers. In areas with high pollution, the ionic air purifier creates what is like a bubble of clean, fresh air, created just for their owners.

The designers of ionic air purifiers work very hard to guarantee that these machines are not only extremely effective, but also economical to use and easy to maintain. If you’re worried about power usage, as everyone is in these days of increased energy costs, you’ll be happy to know that an ionic air purifier only uses 10 watts of electricity. 10 watts of electricity is less than most night-lights use. Consider, for the cost of running a single 100 watt light bulb, you could operate 10 ionic air purifiers!

As they are completely filter-less, there’s no reason to ever have to buy a filter monthly, yearly or ever. Compared to the cost of replacing HEPA filters. Although HEPA filters are a great way to clean the air, they do use a fan and a filter, which means not only the additional cost of filters, but the additional sound of the fan running all of the time. Not only that, but HEPA purifiers use quite a bit more energy than ionic air purifiers, using anywhere between 180 and 250 watts. In comparison, an ionic air purifier will pay for itself if you consider the replacement filters and extra energy use by the competition. The fact that they are also completely silent, having no need of a noise fan, really clenches the ionic air purifier’s lead over the others.

In your bathroom, wash cloths and dampened towels are the perfect homes for mildew, mold spores, and bacteria, as are any other moist or humid areas that are untreated with an ionic air purifier. Ionic air purifiers produce ozone which destroys bacteria and mold while the negative ions in the ionic air purifier trap the floating mold spores straight out of the air. Kids in homes with high mold show 300% more cold like symptoms than those without.

Your loving pet contributes to the pollutants in your air as well. Not only do they contribute the commonly known dander, dried spit from the ends of their hairs break off and float about since they’re so small, but also the feces that he emits add contaminates to the air you breathe as well. Gross as that is, wouldn’t you rather be cleaning it off the plates of your ionic air purifier?

The feces from bugs and insects are also powerful allergens. The New England Journal of Medicine recently did an extensive study in which half the homes they tested had high levels of roaches. The kids that lived in these homes were more than three times as likely to have asthma, and be hospitalized for it. We all know that asthma is more common than ever; we just didn’t know why.

Smoking is a known hazard, yet people persist in the habit. Cigarette smoke in the vehicle or home leaves the smoker’s lungs containing over 3600 cancer causing toxins. These toxins not only pollute the immediate air, but they also cling to clothing and release themselves into the air of otherwise non-smoking homes and buildings. Although minuscule compared to the toxins floating around a smoker’s home, an ionic air purifier would take care of issue once and for all.

Vehicles are really no better, as recent studies prove that many people face the most polluted air inside their own vehicle. Not only does pollen build up in the vehicles air conditioning system, but exhaust and gasoline fumes are easily able to enter the vehicle, further contaminating the air. Luckily you can also obtain ionic air purifiers for your vehicle as well.