Shower water filters. Clearly we need to filter our drinking water, but why in the world would you bother to filter your 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. Heres 4 good reasons to use a shower water filter.

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 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. And as chlorinated water gets hot the chlorine is released into the atmosphere and you breathe 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 the chlorine must eventually waft out of the shower, and when it does it contaminates the atmosphere in your home.

And there’s more. Chlorine dries out your skin and damages your hair. Remember what you hair felt like after an extended swim in the pool? That’s chlorine. And it dries out the natural oils in your skin and make your skin itchy, ask any excema sufferer.

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. A good shower water filter softens your water, and makes your skin and hair softer and healthier. Hair looks healthier and any colors or tips dont fade.

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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