If you haven't bought chlorine shower filters for all the shower heads in your house or apartment, then you need to read this article.
I'm going to assume you know about all the problems with our municipal water supplies.
Recent studies have shown that the water supplies of American cities have everything in them from lead to pesticides.
Ralph Nader's organization found over 2,000 carcinogenic chemicals in the water systems they studied.
As far as drinking and cooking water is concerned, you might be thinking you'll just use bottled water.
Sorry to say, it's not much better--if any! Most bottled water comes straight out of a tap, anyway.
And, as far as showering, unless you're going to use a lot of bottled water, you're still going to be exposed to all the pollutants, toxins, and carcinogens routinely found in tap water.
Our fifty to one hundred year old water treatment plants do a good job of what they were designed to do--stop outbreaks of waterborne diseases like cholera.
But they're not up to the challenge of today's synthetic chemical environment.
Most water systems purify water with chlorine, yet it's just this chlorine that's become so suspect! You'll absorb more chlorine into your body through your skin during a normal shower than you will by drinking tap water for the whole day.
As a part of bathing water, chlorine has some serious disadvantages.
For one thing, it bonds to skin and hair essentially killing the natural bacterial balance that's meant to naturally control our bodies' hygiene.
This can lead to problems like itching, dry skin, and even premature aging of the skin.
In addition, chlorine gas can be created by hot water.
If you'll remember your Word War I history, chlorine gas was used as a weapon of mass destruction! By-products of chlorine like Trihalomethanes and chloroform are found in our water supplies through the combination of the chlorine with other materials.
Both of these are carcinogens.
Chlorine can be easily absorbed by the skin.
In other words, you don't have to drink the water in order to ingest this and other potentially harmful chemicals.
What's the solution? You need to filter the chlorine out of your bathing water! As far as showers are concerned, chlorine filters for shower heads are what you need.
If you're going to look into buying a water filter (and for your sake, I hope you are!), then you will probably want more than just chlorine shower filters.
While you're at it, you might as well buy a top of the line filter and get out all the impurities from your shower water.
Chlorine filters for shower heads are great--you just need more.
There are a number of good filters on the market.
The best will get out the bad stuff and leave in the good stuff, like trace minerals we need for health (calcium, for example).