TourFor » chlorine http://www.tourfor.com Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:47:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why You Need a Shower Filter http://www.tourfor.com/why-you-need-a-shower-filter/ http://www.tourfor.com/why-you-need-a-shower-filter/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:53:14 +0000 http://www.tourfor.com/?p=46 Why do we need a shower filter? Did you know that there is poisonous chlorine in your water?  The same water you use to drink, cook and bathe with on a daily basis.  Its a scary thought the amount of chlorine that you consume on a daily basis.

Its obvious that you would absorb the chlorine from tap water when you drink it, but what about when you shower?  Unfortunately most people do not realize that when you shower you are actually absorbing more chlorine, faster than when you drink it.  The pores in your skin opens up with the heat of the water and since chlorine vaporizes at a low temperature, it is easily absorbed into your skin.

Fortunately there is an easy way to get rid of this problem.  We recently purchased a Aquasana shower filter to replace our old shower head.  The shower filter has provided us with clean chlorine free water every time we take a shower.  Our skin and hair condition has improved and there is the added bonus of not absorbing all that nasty chlorine into our body everyday.

]]> http://www.tourfor.com/why-you-need-a-shower-filter/feed/ 0 Is Chlorine In Your Water Really Bad for You? http://www.tourfor.com/is-chlorine-in-your-water-really-bad-for-you/ http://www.tourfor.com/is-chlorine-in-your-water-really-bad-for-you/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:42:35 +0000 http://www.tourfor.com/?p=34 Most all of us that use a municipal water supply have chlorine or chloramines in our water that is used as a disinfectant. We told that chlorine isn’t bad for us, but is it? The answer to that is you betcha! Chlorine is a chemical that all of us should have removed from our drinking water right before we drink it. You see chlorine is really cheap and inexpensive to use as a disinfectant. So the chances of them stopping the use and going to a non-toxic disinfect is slim and none. So what are we to do?  Remove the chlorine right before simply and inexpensively by using a water filtration system.

Most all of the water filters that are commercially available will  take out over 99% of the chlorine in the water.  Here are a couple of quotes various sources.

“The EPA has raised skin absorption of chlorine to its top 10 Carcinogen Watch List”
The Washington Post, June 1994

“Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine”
U.S. Council of Environmental Quality

Clearly this is something that we should all be concerned about.

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