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My dorms in Chicago have extreme amounts of chlorine in the water. I use a brita water filter to drink but the shower water is hurting my hair and skin causing it to be dry and break. Winter is coming soon and it is only going to get worse. Any tips? Are shower filters possible in dorms? can I just use high quality shampoo and conditioner?
My best advice is find a conditioner that treat chlorine damage or hair protection stuff.
Bottled, Brita . . . or Just Straight From the Tap? Part 3 ...
You’re worried about the purity of straight tap water, but you don’t want to buy bottled water, either. Your third option is to buy a water filter. Personal water filters, such as Brita or PUR , claim to “reduce copper, chlorine (taste and odor) and mercury.” However, is filtered water really better—or necessary?
Pitcher filters work by running water through a porous carbon sheet. The sheet acts as a sieve, catching and filtering larger particulate matter. Then, chemical and organic pollutants such as chlorine and pesticides bond with the carbon and, thus, are removed from the water. Meanwhile, ion resin beads filter out metals such as copper and lead by attracting the metals and releasing H+ or Na+ ions “in exchange.” The result is purer H 0.
Small, disposable, inline water filters were first produced by Omnipure Filter Company in 1970. One of their biggest attractions was—and is—that they would protect consumers from the poisonous properties of lead. (Adverse health effects include damage to the brain and kidneys, fetal developmental defects, and neurological development in young children.) Sixteen years later, the Environmental Protection Agency updated its regulations, limiting lead levels in drinking water to no more than 15 parts per billion (compared to the previous 50ppb level). Water treatments around the country have complied, and lead levels are now often so low as to be undetectable, rendering the lead-removal properties of personal water filters superfluous.
...Bottled, Brita . . . or Just Straight From the Tap? Part 1 ...
How much do you trust your water? Enough to drink from the tap? Or do you pour your water through a filter first? Or is only bottled water “pure” enough?
Tap water is admittedly impure. The water you get from your faucet contains, at the very least, chlorine and fluoride (if not also traces of nitrates, chloroform, barium, arsenic, or copper). Yet, as untasty as they may be, the chemical additives are there for a reason.
Chlorine was first added to municipal drinking water in 1850 in an attempt to curb a cholera outbreak in London. The method worked so well that it was adopted in the United States in 1908 and virtually eliminated waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery and hepatitis A.
Fluoride, meanwhile, was added to prevent cavities. Multiple studies in the mid-1900s demonstrated that water fluoridation prevented tooth decay and led to the creation of a U.S. Public Health Service policy for water fluoridation in 1951.
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