Shower Water Filters

Most of us know that our drinking water has chlorine added to it. But do you know what else it has? Lead, arsenic, pharmaceuticals, copper and possibly a bunch of other chemical and organic contaminants. No wonder shower water filters are becoming a necessity, not just a luxury.

Many of us drink bottled water and some of us drink filtered water, but did you realize that showering in your city water is even more dangerous to your health than drinking the tap water?

How is that possible?
Because when you take a shower, your pores are opened up and the chemicals from the water are actually absorbed quicker through your skin than from drinking. Also, when you drink water, the kidneys do some amount of filtering the dangerous chemicals. No such filter in your skin.

The chlorine in your shower water vaporizes from the warm water and it mixes with other organic compounds in the air and becomes "chloroform gas". This irritant can cause or aggravate asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

Chlorine also dries the skin and hair. It effectively changes the hair's natural color, because in essence you are bleaching your hair every time that you take a shower. Copper can cause color treated hair to have a "green" tinge. Chlorine can cause color treated hair to turn orange. This is one reason that so many hair dressers recommend shower filters for copper and chlorine.

How Safe Is YOUR Water?

You can have your water tested, but unless you test on a daily basis, there is no way to be sure.

In many cities in the U.S, the level of chlorine in the tap water may be higher than what is safe to swim in. Kind of scary to think about, isn't it? But that may explain why you sometimes feel "itchy" after a shower or seem to have dry skin all the time.

Here's a website that tested the water in many U.S. cities. To see how yours stacked up, go to:

National Tap Water Database and click on the "find your water company" link on the left.