Bath Water Filters
Take Out Chlorine and More
Leave Healthy Water
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The technology in these bath balls, which uses a process-patented disk made of a combination of copper and zinc known as kdf is the best solution we have found for bath water filters and for shower filters. The way they disks in these bath filters is processed makes them SEVERAL TIMES more effective than other kdf shower and bath water filters. These bath water filters remove chlorine, iron, lead, bacteria, hydrogen sulfide and hundreds of other problem contaminants from your water. They reduce fluoride about 40%. (We're not aware of any that actually do remove more.)
Chlorine is a poison that attacks organic matter. It binds with the protein in your body. We absorb more chlorine from bathing and showering than from drinking water. Additionally, the EPA has declared that US households have elevated levels of chloroform in the air due to chlorine releases from showering water. So it's in our bath water, showering water and in the air in our homes. Chlorine, on top of irritating skin, eyes and lungs and drying skin and hair, is a suspected cause of breast cancer. We don't know about you, but it just seems blatantly obvious to us that soaking in chlorine, which kills living things, is a health risk!
for more information see our page on chlorine risks.
The copper-zinc kdf PowerDisk water filters, which is the filter media in our Bath Water Filters also removes aluminum, mercury, sulfur, and lime scale and many other undesirable compounds.
We have compared different brands' approaches to bath water filters. One of the issues that isn't readily evident on those that use carbon (because they don't tell you) is that while carbon is a very good filter media for some purposes, it doesn't work above 96 degrees! And that is below normal bath water temperatures. The water is also moving too fast through carbon in a bath water filter, anyway. Carbon can be excellent an excellent media to include in your drinking water filter, but it's the wrong filter for for a bath water filter.
Keeps Working for a Long Time
PowerDisk water filters are the most efficient, longest lasting and lowest maintenance water filter media available. The power disks work best because the copper-zinc alloy has no pores that plug up, has no membranes to replace, and remains bacteriostatic (bacteria can't breed). Replace the bath water filter disk inside once a year. The media is non-hazardous, non-corrosive and is recyclable.
The copper-zinc alloy stops the calcium and magnesium from forming hard scale, adhering to your showerhead - which can build and slow water flow and pressure. They also stop scale from building up in your shower and tub. Interestingly, calcium and magnesium are not eliminated, rather they remain soluble in the water, which is natural and healthful. In nature, these minerals are picked up as water filters through rock strata. Excessive salt is reduced, however.
Hydrogen sulfide is also reduced by these shower and bath water filters. If you sometimes get a 'rotten egg' smell, that's hydrogen sulfide. It is a poisonous gas that can in larger amounts cause nausea and illness. It also corrodes metals. When hydrogen sulfide passes through these bath water filters, oxidation occurs, removing the hydrogen sulfide by creating zinc oxides and zinc sulfides.
Please note that through shipping, some copper-zinc powder sometimes loosens in new bath balls. If this happens, it won't last long. You can soak and rinse them to clear it more quickly. But this won't cause harm to bathers, and is far preferable to chlorine, particularly for children.
There is no maintenance required for the kdf copper-zinc filter, just replace it once a year.
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What About Fluoride?
Fluoride is now being recognized by many as being very dangerous. In our view, there is no longer any reasonable doubt that drinking it is a bad idea. In November 2006 the American Dental Association reversed itself and said that the ingestion of fluoride is too dangerous for babies. There are several other fluoride risks, too, including that it is carcinogenic. There is more research every year showing fluoride risks.
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However, most information that we have been able to find is clear in the opinion that fluoride causes health problems primarily through ingestion, not through showering or bath water. Most sources say that fluoride, unlike chlorine, is not released into the water and air as a gas. It travels through water as part of a metallic compound, and therefore doesn't release into the air like chlorine. Even the people who sell activated alumina for water filters firmly believe that fluoride is not absorbed through the skin by showering or bathing.
Please note: activated alumina is not aluminum. Aluminum is made from it, in part by adding fluoride. Activated alumina is made from bauxite, and is the same resin that sapphires and rubies are made of.
We talk to a lot of people about these issues, including those who were over-fluoridated and with severe sensitivities. Most have been able to address their health issues by taking the fluoride out of their drinking and cooking water. Once in a while we speak with someone who does suffer direct health problems from showing or bathing in fluoridated water. These filters can reduce the amount you are exposed to.
Be careful about claims that you can get a whole-house activated alumina (the standard for removing fluoride) system at a cost for a few hundred dollars that will remove fluoride and last for a year or two. This simply can't be true. It takes a huge amount of activated alumina to remove fluoride from the whole house. Water filter systems that seem cheap compared to others are cheap because they use comparatively little filter material and won't do the job over time.
We don't know of any bath water filters that eliminate fluoride. It's very hard to remove and there is not sufficient time that the water is in contact with the filter media to remove fluoride.
The bath ball bath water filter will remove up to 40% of fluoride. This isn't that much, but if you combine it with a drinking water filter for your kitchen and a shower filter, the overall effect is significant.
If you feel you must remove fluoride from your bath water, you can have a plumber insert a 'kitchen' fluoride filter into your bathroom plumbing line. We do have 2-canister FLUORIDE PLUS filters in the store in the Fluoride PLUS Water Filters section that you could use for this purpose. Even less work is if you can find an adapter that fits your bath faucet, you can screw in a counter water filter.
Click here for information about the need for kitchen water filters.
Visit this page to learn more specific to fluoride water filters.
Call us toll-free at 866-482-6803 to discuss your situation.
Not Only Filtering the Bad - Leaving Healthy Water
EPA & NSF Standards
These bath water filters release minuscule traces of zinc and copper into your bathing water. In proper amounts, both are necessary for healthy body functions. These are defined as food supplements and nutrients by the Food and Drug Administration. The trace amounts in your bath water are a small percentage of the minimum daily requirement. The EPA has declared that this water filter media imparts nothing harmful into the water. The National Sanitation Foundation found it to be in compliance for water treatment plant applications and for aesthetic effects of taste, odor and chlorine reduction.
No, these filters do not put in copper or zinc above a trace element level.
Yes, these filters remove copper. Only a trace element remains.
Yes, these filters remove zinc. Only a trace element remains. Zinc is something that many people are deficient in.
These water filters make your water softer without the use of salt. They will reduce excessive salt.
Pink Bath Water Filters
The Bath Bath bath water filter is also available in pink. 5% of proceeds from Pink Products are donated to cancer research and/or information dissemination. We are now donating to Silent Spring. (www.silentspring.org)
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