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Shower Filters
Shower Filters and Bath Filters
Remove Chlorine and More
Leave Healthy Water
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"We purchased a friendsofwater.com shower head filter and I have really noticed a difference in the texture and feel of my hair. It is MUCH softer."
WDL
Santa Monica, CA
The technology in these bath filters and shower filters, which uses a process-patented disk made of a combination of copper and zinc known as kdf, appears to be the best solution available for shower filters and for bath water filters. All kdf is not equal! Our manufacturing partner has patented the way these disks are made, forming them from powdered kdf. This makes them SEVERAL TIMES more effective than other kdf shower and bath water filters. These water filters remove chlorine, iron, lead, bacteria, hydrogen sulfide and hundreds of other problem contaminants from your water.
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. 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 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 bad for our health!
for more information see our page on chlorine risks.
The copper-zinc kdf PowerDisk water filters, which is the filter media in both our TurboShowers and Bath Balls, also filter aluminum, mercury, sulfur, and lime scale among many other inorganic compounds. These water filters make your water softer without the use of salt. They will reduce excessive salt.
Keeps Working for a Long Time
Power Disk 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). You swap out the water filter disk 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. Scale is that buildup you see that cakes on and slows flow and pressure. These bath and shower filters 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 removed 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 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.
There is no maintenance required for the kdf copper-zinc filter, just swap it out the filter disk once a year.
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Shower Filters & Bath Balls
TurboShower
The Bath Ball top view
hangs from clear strapping
The white TurboShower & Bath Ball are now available to target chloramines, instead of chlorine. You want a chloramines version if your water municipality is adding ammonia to the water to change the chlorine to chloramines.
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Also Available in PINK
Bath Ball Shower Filter
What About Fluoride?
Fluoride is recognized by many as being very dangerous. In our view, there is no 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.
Click here to learn more about fluoride dangers.
However, most information that we have been able to find, and as a result of our experience working with this issue since 2006, it seems clear that fluoride causes health problems primarily through ingestion. 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.
It is a rare occurence that we hear from a customer who reports that bathing or showering in fluoride causes them health problems. Those who have problems seem to have been previously over-fluoridated through dentistry, municipal water supply or fluoride drops their parents were told to give them as children. Some people simply have extreme sensitivities.
Be careful about claims of whole house filter systems that remove fluoride at a cost for a few hundred dollars - and last for a year or two. This simply can't be true. It takes too much activated alumina (sometimes called 'resin') to remove fluoride from the whole house for it to be affordable. Water filter systems that seem cheap compared to others - are cheap because they can't and won't do the job over time.
We don't know of any shower or bath filters that significantly remove fluoride.
Having said this however, the shower and bath filters we sell will remove up to 40% of fluoride. We're not aware of others that do that much.
IF YOU REALLY DO WANT TO REMOVE FLUORIDE FROM THE WHOLE HOUSE:
We have two solutions. One is wildly expensive, but it will last for 500,000 gallons!
http://shop.friendsofwater.com/Whole-House-3-TANKS-Water-Filter-including-FLUORIDE-WH-DT40WHF.htm
The other is a new solution that is effective and affordable - made possible by our manufacturing partner's patented process applied to activated alumina. It lasts 80,000 gallons before you replace the media.
http://shop.friendsofwater.com/Whole-House-Small-Alternative-Various-Combinations-WHBB2-20.htm
Click here for information about the need for kitchen water filters.
And here for information specifically about fluoride water filters.
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TurboShower shown with Earth Showerhead
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