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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 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. 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 youre breathing it.

There was a recent report in the American Journal of Public Health. It linked chlorine with cancer. And where do you think it concluded that we got 2/3rds of our chlorine? From skin absorption and breathing chlorine 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. A high quality shower water filter will both soften your hair and also make your skin softer and healthier. Hair color doesn’t fade like it used to and your hair just looks and feels better.

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 at a surprisingly low cost per annum compared to what you might be paying for health care. Filtering your shower water costs only a couple of dollars a week. There are some more expensive, but if you compare shower water filters youll find that you can buy the worlds best shower water filter for under $70.

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.

Head over to my website to find out where you source the worlds best drinking water and shower water filters as well as whole house filters.