The Importance of Shower Filters to Safeguard you from Chlorines harmful effects.

Chlorine is a highly corrosive and reactive element commonly used to disinfect and sanitize. Water that flows out of your tap is in all likelihood disinfected with chlorine, just open the tap and you can smell the harmful vapors. Chlorine and its vapors are toxic and this is the purpose of adding it to 98 of all water supplies! to kill water"orne pathogens. #ou can smell chlorine in as low concentration as $ ppm %parts per million& in water. 't concentrations of $( ppm chlorine causes coughing and at )( it causes lung damage. Chlorine is toxic to living organisms since it oxidizes or takes away the oxygen molecule and when in contact with water, it produces hydrochloric acid and hypochlorous acid that can kill "ody cells. *esearch for decades has proven that chlorine, if inhaled and ingested, is responsi"le for colorectal cancer, lung damage, heart trou"le, premature ageing, senility and more. +he fact is that even though the powers that "e recognize the deleterious effects of chlorine, it still remains the cheapest and most effective disinfectant used widely throughout the world to treat water. ,owever, the "est way to protect yourself from this chemical contaminant is to have chlorine a"sor"ing filters in your water supply line. When you shower, you ingest and inhale chlorine gas dissolved in water. 'part from internal damage, your skin is also damaged and your hair can "ecome "rittle, lifeless and prematurely gray. +here is no reason to put up

with chlorine risk when you can easily overcome it "y simply adding a chlorine a"sor"ing water filtration system to your shower head. -n fact, a num"er of shower heads have an integral chlorine a"sor"ing filter element "uilt into the shower head. Classic examples are the .xy/last shower filter and 'pril 0hower 1ilter series of shower heads that incorporate chlorine shower filters. +hanks to modern technology reflected in the range of shower filters and shower heads that are availa"le, you can now enjoy multiple "enefits. 1irst is that shower heads incorporating the shower filter are designed in a way to minimize pressure drop while infusing added oxygen into the water to deliver powerful, oxygen rich sprays. 0econd, in tall "uildings with high water pressure, shower heads with integral shower filters are "uilt to withstand such pressure yet control the flow in such a way that the sprays are powerful yet not sharp and stinging! most filtered shower heads also offer multiple spray patterns that you may adjust in seconds providing sprays at the right pressure that do not harm the skin "ut provide a soothing feeling of rejuvenation. +hird, most shower filters contain replacea"le shower filter cartridges. +hese inexpensive filter cartridges may "e easily replaced "y simply unscrewing the filter housing, removing the old cartridge and putting a new one in its place. -f you look around you will find such cartridge shower filters in many models2 economy shower heads, stationary shower heads, "a"y "ath shower heads and hand held shower heads. ,ealth risks due to the cumulative exposure to chlorine are extremely high. When you use shower heads with appropriate shower filters, you keep the dangers away, enjoy healthfully refreshing showers, rejuvenate your skin, make your hair shine and glow from within.