Chlorine removing shower filters may be one of the best investments you'll ever make in your health and well-being.
If you're like most people, however, you may have never thought about the importance of filtering your shower water.
There are, however, a few things you need to know about chlorine shower filters.
There were really three things I learned about the need for a chlorine removing shower filter.
Let me tell you what those three things were.
The first thing I learned was that the chlorine in our water is bad for us to ingest.
Although I knew, vaguely, that chlorine had to be a toxin in order to kill bacteria and viruses, it didn't really dawn on me how bad chlorine was for us until I learned about what actually happens to the chlorine in our water supplies.
You see, I knew municipal water systems put chlorine into the water to kill organisms, but I really had never thought through the fact that the chlorine never gets taken out of our water.
I originally bought drinking water filters because I learned about how traces of pesticides, lead, and prescription drugs were routinely found in our water.
I didn't really think about the necessity of filtering the chlorine out.
Then I learned about things like trihalomethanes.
Trihalomethanes occur in water than has natural organic material in it, which has been exposed to chlorine.
The water in many regions of the United States, for instance, has some trace organic material in it.
A number of years ago, the EPA required large metropolitan water systems to reduce the amount of trihalomethanes in their water, but until recently that restriction did not extend to smaller water systems.
Even then, they don't require absolute removal.
Some scientists, however, have linked trihalomethanes to an increased risk of cancer.
There are ways to treat water without using chlorine, but frankly I was not about to wait for my city to do that.
(I don't even know if I could reasonably find out exactly how they were treating my water.
) At that point I was glad I was filtering the chlorine out of our drinking water.
The second thing I learned was that our skin can let toxins in, just as it lets toxins out.
Through another avenue, I learned that our bodies can ingest as many toxins through our skin as it can through directly drinking contaminated water.
I'm not sure why I didn't know that, except I had always thought of skin as more of a covering than a working organ.
Our skin, however, has thousands of tiny pores.
In hot bathing water it opens up to not only let toxins out but let them in, too! Once I realized I didn't want to be bathing in chlorinated water, I ordered chlorine removing shower filters for all our shower heads.
The third thing I learned was how bad chlorine is for your skin and hair.
When I started bathing in de-chlorinated water, I really couldn't believe the differences it was making in how my skin and hair felt.
Turns out, chlorine binds to skin and hair and destroys the natural, healthy bacterial balance.
I can honestly say I will never willingly go back to bathing in chlorinated water ever again!