The idea of filtering shower water seems strange to most people that first hear about shower filters.
Most first time shower filter users are amazed at the immediate benefits of showering in soft water that's chlorine-free.
Read on to compare shower filter benefits with your needs and desires.
The first benefit of a shower filter is relief from dry itchy skin.
Chlorine is added to water systems to kill disease causing micro-organisms. Unfortunately,
chlorine also binds with proteins in your skin and kills skin cells.
This leads to dry, itchy skin and aggravates existing skin conditions such as eczema.
Hard water leaves behind mineral deposits when it evaporates and combines with soap to form
soap scum.
These residues form on your skin and dry out the natural oils. They also flake off
as your skin moves, but damage the skin in the process.
Filtered shower water also give you silky hair that's easy to manage.
Chlorine and hard water also damage your hair. Hard water and soap scum deposits are even
worse for fine hair.
Your hair becomes stiff and dry from these deposits. Also, your hair is damaged when the hard water deposits flake off.
Chlorine-free showers make your hair color or highlights last longer.
Chlorine is the active ingredient in household bleach. Just like bleach can turn a pair of blue
jeans white, chlorine in shower water fades your hair color.
The chlorine in your shower is a lower concentration, so you don't notice it right away, but
chlorine does remove hair color.
Shower filters also reduce your exposure to chemicals.
Your body absorbs many times more chemicals in the shower that it ever could by drinking the same
water.
Warm shower water opens your skin's pores so your skin readily absorbs whatever is in the
shower water.
Chemicals like chlorine evaporate quickly in a hot shower and enter your lungs as
you breathe the shower steam.
Your home's indoor air quality will be improved by a shower filter.
The chlorine that evaporates from your shower water is often combines with other chemicals in
the air of your home.
Modern homes are "tight" so they retain heated or cooled air for energy efficiency. This means
all the chemicals released inside your home are also retained in the indoor air.
Thus everyone in your home can be affected by breathing the chlorine derivatives found in the
typical modern home.
Shower filtration also eliminates a trigger for asthma attacks.
If someone in your home suffers from asthma or other breathing problems, eliminating every source
of irritation to the lungs can help avoid an asthma attack.
It's certainly worth a try to eliminate a major source of indoor air pollution, especially when
the shower is typically near a bedroom, where we spend many hours sleeping (and breathing).
Filtration of shower water protects your children's health.
All the above benefits apply to adults and children, however because children have immature immune
systems they are most susceptible to many of these problems.
Children can be impacted by chlorine in shower water even if they don't take a shower themselves.
So how many of those benefits align with a problem you or someone in your home experiences on a
daily basis?
Any one of these benefits can easily lead to an improvement that would make the small investment
in a shower filter seem insignificant.
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