Vitamin-C Shower, Tap Water and Our Skin
Tap water is sterilized with HCLO sodium chlorine. The first chlorine is added into the water at filtration plant, in order to disinfect the water and to eliminate organic chemicals, and then second addition of chlorine is completed so as to preserve its chlorine level in the water, prior to water supply to each household. It should be maintained to keep germs and virus away from the end user. (economically efficient in relation with its effectiveness) Chlorine is a toxic chemical element of halogen family, which is used for production of oxidizer, bleaching agent, and sterilization-related goods. Chlorine in the tab water can also be reacted by a combination of organic elements to yield a combination of organic chlorine (i.e. environmental hormone) that harms our environment and health.
The water we use from city water systems has been treated by chemicals such as chlorine and chloramine. By definition, "chlorine is a nonmetallic element occurring naturally as a poisonous, greenish-yellow gas with an irritating, pungent odor." The new technology used in the Vitamin-C Shower Filter astonishingly uses a vitamin as the agent to remove the harmful chlorine in the water we use to shower. The Vitamin-C Shower Filter releases the exact amount of vitamin to neutralize all chlorine or chloramine as the water passes through the shower filter. When the water is shut off, the Vitamin-C Shower Filter stops releasing the vitamin. This economy of vitamin release increases the useful life of the Vitamin-C Shower Filter significantly. Also, the Vitamin Shower Filter works in any water temperature, any water pressure and the lifetime of the filter does not depend on the water quality. All of the benefits discussed here will become clearer as you read on.
Chlorine and Chloramine
To better appreciate the power of using a vitamin as the dechlorination agent in the Vitamin-C Shower Filter, the hazards in our water supplies must be better understood. These dangers are real and should not be overlooked or accepted by the general public.
Chlorine is universally used to chemically disinfect public water systems because of its toxic effect on harmful germs, bacteria and disease-causing organisms. As defined above, chlorine is a toxic gas. With greater exposure to toxic chlorine contained in water supplies, the potential health dangers we face become more real.
During the bathing process, the chlorine evaporates out of the water and is inhaled. This toxic gas can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. Some reports claim that as much chlorine enters the body by inhaling steamy chlorinated shower vapors or through the open pores of the skin as that which enters the body by drinking chlorinated water during the entire day. This increased exposure to the adverse effects of chlorine by household residents can be from 6 to 100 times more than medically recommended.
Chlorine also attacks the skin and skin oils, creating a dermal drying effect. Shower water can also cause or worsen skin irritations and rashes as well as drying the skin. Showering and bathing in chlorinated water will also result in the breakage of hair shafts. Because chlorine is absorbed into the body through the skin, additional physical problems can ensue. Chlorinated water can also irritate eyes, leaving them red, itchy and burning. Inhaling the toxic steam can aggravate the sinuses and lungs. Chloramine, although a more stable compound, contains chlorine and ammonia and is also used to control bacteria in water systems. Its harmful effects cause the same dangers as pure chlorine.
Studies have shown that chlorine can destroy protein in the body and cause adverse effects to hair and skin. Chlorine chemically bonds with the protein in the skin and hair, making hair brittle and dry and sensitive skin itch, dry and flake. Research shows that those long, hot showers we enjoy are actually a health risk! When the chlorine found in water evaporates into the steam and is inhaled, the fumes can be 6–100 times more toxic than exposure to chlorinated drinking water.
Shower filters are critical in removing dangerous water contaminants such as chlorine from shower water. Hot shower mist and steam are highly unsafe as the bleaching and disinfecting agent chlorine reaches sensitive tissue deep inside our lungs. It is there where chlorine starts it most damaging effects. It also affects sensitive skin. Chlorine's disinfecting and bleaching properties are important contributor to dry skin, itchy skin, increased skin allergies.
Everybody needs a shower filter
At one time or another, while drinking a glass of tap water or taking your morning shower, you noticed the smell of chlorine that is used to disinfect your municipal water. For chlorine to be effective against microorganisms in your water system, it must be present in sufficient quantity and it must have a sufficient amount of time to react. This reaction time is usually 30 minutes. To ensure continued protection against harmful organisms, a certain amount of chlorine must remain in the water after treatment. This remaining chlorine is known as a residual chlorine and it is what you smell in your shower or while drinking tap water.
While the chlorine in our drinking water and/or shower is effective in killing potentially deadly microorganisms, it can also be harmful in that it can damage the cells in our bodies. Chlorine can combine with natural organic compounds, such as your skin or internal organs, and reacts to form tri-halo-methanes (THMs). THMs are carcinogenic by-products of the disinfection process.
These by-products have been linked to serious health problems such as miscarriages, birth-defects, and different types of cancer.
In fact, in Chesapeake, Virginia, there was a billion dollar lawsuit, which demonstrated a link between miscarriages and tap water due to chlorination by-products.
If Chlorine in water is harmful, why is it in our municipal water supply? Why do we need it?
Chlorine has been used in water purification for a very long time. For most of the 20th century chlorine contributed to improved water quality by dramatically reducing water-borne illnesses. The purifying agent - chlorine - has been responsible for the delevopment of our present standard of living, because of the reduction of illnesses which caused better health and productivity.
In countries where the water is not treated effectively the economic development of those countries has directly suffered. Sick people, stricken with stomach cramps and diarrhea, after consuming unsafe water, are not productive as they need to get well first.
However, many pathogens have become resistant to chlorine. Cryptosporidium is one such pathogen. Thanks to its size it can be filtered out with an adequately configured water filter.
Developments like these make the use of chlorine questionable, but it is still the most widely used water disinfection agent in the world. The main reason: it is the cheapest way to disinfect water. But, it also has strong residual disinfection capacity . This means that chlorine is used everywhere to keep the municipal water free from any re-contamination. All means that are taken to prevent any (!) re-contamination, are positive.
If chlorine is so beneficial to keep dangerous pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria in check in our water supply, why do we have to pay so much attention to chlorinated water?
Chlorine contributes to the well-being of our society, however, every person who comes in contact with it is at serious risk of suffering from it. Some of these negative effects are:
Dry skin , a result from the oxidation capacity of chlorine.
Intensifies skin rashes and allergies.
Can cause serious pain in persons with dry eyes
Creates Trihalomethanes (THMs), as side effect of keeping the water free of harmful microorganisms, such as E-Coli bacteria or Cryptsporidium. THMs are cancer causing substances.
Can cause irritation and damage to sensitive tissue when taking a shower, for example to lung tissue while breathing.
Chlorine bleaches. This affects person using any type of hair coloring. Over the years we have had a number of cases blond hair turned greenish, an effect caused by chlorine.
What is the answer?? ABANDON CHLORINE? NO! - not until alternative technologies - proven technologies are available and affordable.
THE ANSWER FOR ALL OF US IS CLEAR AND OBVIOUS:
The use of chlorine in water purification is beneficial, as long as no one comes in contact with it.
The practical solution is to filter the water where it is used - in the shower with a good shower filter, at the sink or refrigerator with a good water filter. Using correct filtration units, no one has to worry about the dangerous effects of chlorine.
Chlorine is a serious irritant and creates carcinogenic by-products. Persons with sensitive skin, skin rashes, specific skin allergies, very dry skin need the most efficient shower filter to reduce their exposure to the aggressive effects of chlorine to the maximum extent possible. Chlorine dries skin out significantly faster than chlorine free water.
Many of our customers have conditions that make them highly sensitive against the presence of chlorine. Skin rashes, exzema , itching, dry skin, dry eyes are symptoms that diminish a person' s well -being. For example, dry eyes is a condition in which the body does not supply sufficient lubrication fluid to the eye. Any such person, when exposed to chlorinated shower water can suffer severely, as the chlorine dries out the eyes even more. Generally, relief can be as easy as removing the irritant CHLORINE from the shower water. This filter removes more chlorine than other filter. It thereby leaves sensitive skin and tissue free of irritation and severe aggravation.
