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Shower water filters. Why would you bother? Yes theres no doubt that drinking clean water is essential to our health, but why do you need to filter shower water?

After all, you don’t drink out of the shower do you? You only wash.

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 it isnt good to drink chlorine. If you have chlorine in your water (and who doesnt) you need the best drinking water filter you can get. Drinking chlorine is not good for you, and some are even concerned that chlorine in drinking water can cause cancer.

But showering in water with added chlorine isn’t good either. It has several problems. Firstly when you take a hot shower your pores open up and let more water in, and as the water penetrates your skin the chlorine gets in too. So you have really just, in effect, drunk chlorinated water.

2. As you shower the hot water releases chlorine gas into the air in the shower, and it stays in the shower as it cant get out, so youre breathing 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 when this gas escapes into the home, as it must, it contaminates the air in your home.

And theres more nasty effects to chlorine in your shower water. It dries out and damages your hair. Just think back to what your hair felt like after a swim in a pool. Thats chlorine. And chlorine can dry out the natural oils in your skin and make your skin itchy. Shower filtration is especially useful to anyone with excema.

3. All the above applies to many of the other chemicals and toxins that are found in our water. Nasties like pesticides and herbicides, lead, antibiotics, heavy metals and much 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.

But fortunately the best shower water filters will remove up to 99.99% of chlorine, and those 2100 other toxic chemicals that the Ralph Nader Institute tells us about.

And it’s not even as expensive as you’d expect. The worlds best shower water filters cost less than $70 and even though you need to replace filters from time to time it’s extremely cheap compared to the cost (and grief) of, say, cancer.

So there you have it. 4 good reasons to buy a shower water filter. You’re actually better to buy a whole house water filter so you’ve got clean water to drink, bathe in and wash clothes in, but if you’re just thinking of a shower water filter make sure you filter your water too.

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