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

Even so there are good reasons to use shower water filters in every shower. Lets have a look at what they are. Here’s 4 good reasons to use a shower water filter.

1. Chlorine. If there’s chlorine in your water, (and who doesn’t have chlorine in their water), you really don’t want to be drinking it. Some consider that over time drinking chlorine can even lead to 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 you’re breathing it.

There has been a recent study released and documented in the American Journal of Public Health. It links chlorine to cancer and says that 2/3rds of chlorine we are exposed to is by skin absorption and breathing it in the shower.

And of course when the chlorine gets out of the shower it contaminated 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 toxins will also act like chlorine and vaporize in hot shower water, and form a gas. And of course you breathe that gas in. So even if you drink filtered water you’re still ingesting the same chemicals you’ve filtered out of your drinking water.

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.

And the good news is that the best shower water filters will remove up to 99.99% of chlorine, so that’s basically all of it. And shower water filters filter out those other 2100 toxins too.

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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