Shower water filters. Now just why would you bother with one. Clearly we need to filter our drinking water so we’re drinking clean water, but why in the world would you filter shower water?

After all, you just wash in it dont you, you dont drink the shower water.

But regardless there are still some very good reasons to use a shower water filter every time you shower. Here’s 4 reasons.

1. Chlorine. Now we all know that you shouldn’t drink chlorine, and that the best water filters filter out chlorine. There’s no doubt that drinking chlorine isn’t good for you and some consider it very likely that drinking chlorine causes cancer.

But chlorine in the shower water is still a problem. Because some of the water that lands on your skin soaks into your skin, and your body. And chlorine goes in with it. So in effect you have the same result as if you had drunk unfiltered water. And hot water opens the pores and allows more chlorine in.

2. And as chlorinated water gets hot the chlorine is released into the atmosphere and you breathe it.

A recent report in the American Journal of Public Health linked chlorine ingestion to cancer stating that up to 2/3rds of the ingestion was due to skin absorption and breathing chlorine gas during showering.

And the chlorine must eventually waft out of the shower, and when it does it contaminates the atmosphere in your home.

And there’s more than that. Chlorine can damage your hair and dry out the natural oils in your skin, making it dry and itchy. Just ask any excema sufferer. Remember what your hair and skin felt like after a long swim in the pool?

3. And this all applies to more than just chlorine. According to the Ralph Nader Institute there are up to 2100 toxic chemicals in our water, like antibiotics, lead, heavy metals and pesticides and much more.

Many of these are volatile and like chlorine will vaporize in the hotter water of the shower, forming a gas. And you breathe that gas. So youre breathing the very chemicals youve filtered from your tap water so you arent drinking them.

4. And the best shower water filters both make your skin feel and look softer and make your hair look and feel healthier. Hair color doesn’t seem to fade like it used to.

The best shower water filters filter out just about any nasties you can imagine, including 99.99% of chlorine. (All of it basically).

And it is way cheaper than you’d imagine too. The best shower water filters cost less than $70, and that’s cheap compared to the grief and cost of, say, cancer. Even including replacement filters it’s really inexpensive.

So there you have 4 good reasons to buy yourself a shower water filter. Or preferably a whole house water filter, then all the water you use anywhere is filtered and clean. But if youre thinking of a good shower water filter make sure you buy a good drinking water filter as well, thats a must.

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