Today I placed an order (on amazon, of course!) for a Sprite shower head/chlorine filter. I've been doing a lot of learning about water lately, and I'm not liking what I find.
Did you know that filtering the chlorine out of your drinking water is not enough? It's not even a start! Skin readily absorbs chlorine (like the chlorine in water treated by the city), especially when it's warm because it opens your pores. It also vaporizes.
So this morning while I took a long hot shower and enjoyed the steam. Yeah. I was absorbing chlorine and inhaling it's toxic fumes.
I'm afraid to bathe the kids until the shower filter arrives!
I also found out that vitamin c somehow neutralizes chlorine (and even more dangerous chloramines, which we don't have in our water- I checked) and I bought some vitabath vitamin c tablets for bath time. That way we don't have to spend 10 minutes filling up the bath tub with the shower head.
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