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The Best Shower Filters Of 2011

I just replaced my shower filters, so I thought I’d update my best shower filter review from earlier this year. Each update to the review generates a lot of useful comments. So I’m incorporating what I’ve learned from those comments into this latest review.

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The Best Shower Filter

Note: Please stop read this article, and read our updated shower filter article instead I wanted to post an update on my quest for the best shower filter. I received a lot of useful comments on my last shower filter post, and I’ve also tested a couple of new shower filters.

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How To Filter Your Shower Water Very Efficiently

This post has been updated for 2011. I recently wrote about Filtering Your Drinking Water Very Efficiently, but let us turn now to your shower water. When we shower, we absorb the substances dissolved in water through our skin quite readily. For example, 60% of the chlorine absorbed daily comes from showering in chlorinated water. [...]

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Chloramine

Recently, municipalities around the world have begun to use chloramine (a mixture of chlorine and ammonia) to disinfect water. This is done to reduce free chlorine’s ability to combine with organic matter in the water thereby producing potentially harmful trihalomethanes, or THMs. Because chloramine has less disinfecting ability than free chlorine, a higher concentration of [...]

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GAC (Granulated Active Carbon)

Carbon has long been used to absorb impurities and is perhaps the most powerful absorbent known. Activated carbon is carbon which has a slight electro-positive charge added to it, making it even more attractive to chemicals and impurities. As the water passes over the positively charged carbon surface, the negative ions of the contaminants are [...]

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Chlorine Filter for Baths: Crystal Ball

This bath filter removes 90% or more of free chlorine, improves lathering with quartz crystals. You swirl in the bath water for a few minutes, for filtration to occur. Available from: Natural Baby or Ebay

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