Charcoal Shower Head Filter?

jaxy999

Hi all, not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum, please feel free to move me.

Has anyone ever heard of a charcoal shower head filter? I was watching Oprah recently and she mentioned these filters, which you place inside your shower head and they filter out chlorine, which is a cause of dry skin. I've googled these but it's throwing back mainly American site's. I haven't asked in any plumbing stores either.

Anyone know where to purchase?

Thanks.

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Americans.

Joey the lips

Chlorine in irish drinking water?????? Why would you want one. Its flouride that is found in irish drinking water.

Curious....


If it is the flouride you want to filter out, why?


Am i the only one that gets a mental picture of barbeque charchol being loaded into the shower head.:)

Alun

Joey the lips wrote: »

Chlorine in irish drinking water??????

Chlorine is routinely used in water treatment plants (for getting rid of nasties such as E. coli), and there will always be residual amounts present in drinking water.

See http://www.fingalcoco.ie/minutes/meeting_doc.aspx?id=520 for example.

Joey the lips

Alun wrote: »

Chlorine is routinely used in water treatment plants (for getting rid of nasties such as E. coli), and there will always be residual amounts present in drinking water.

See http://www.fingalcoco.ie/minutes/meeting_doc.aspx?id=520 for example.

Amazing! Never knew that! Still wonder why you would want to filter it though. Lime i can understand

Alun

Joey the lips wrote: »

Amazing! Never knew that! Still wonder why you would want to filter it though. Lime i can understand

Even at the normally permitted levels it can sometimes leave a nasty 'swimming pool' like taste/smell in drinking water, and some people claim it can cause problems with skin and/or hair when used for washing.

mashling

I saw that Oprah episode too, lol I'm glad I'm not the only one who was convinced! I live in Galway, and I'm full sure its the lovely Galway water with its lovely anti-crypto chemicals that is aggrevating my sensitive skin. Every time I go home for the weekend and use the shower there my skin feels so much better!

I'm trying to find somewhere in Ireland that sells them as well but I havn't had any luck so far. I found a post that said that the model that Dr. Oz guy was holding was a "Culligan HSH-C135" if thats any help!

Have you had any luck finding one?

mashling

Actually, I just found a site that seems to have them >>

http://www.aquaeuro.ie/products_eu.asp?CategoryID=120&Cat=Shower%20Filters

I have no idea if it works though...

Also found this one on Amazon >>

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Shower-Filter-more-scale/dp/B001MZ49JU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1257440397&sr=8-1

It nearly sounds too good to be true...

Joey the lips

I imagine from reading them you will need your shower to be pumped. Will this be a problem for you? By pumped I mean with a 1.5 bar pump.

youtheman

In my workplace we use a reverse osmosis system to convert sea water into potable (drinking water). After the RO unit we re-harden the water and dose it with chlorine (to disinfect it). Each outlet (kitchen etc) has a charcoal filter fitted. The charcoal will remove the chlorine.

If you want to remove chlorine from water going to a shower then why don't you fit a standard filter housing in the pipework supplying the shower. I can see little point in having it in the shower head.

A charcoal filter will have an absolute limit on how much chlorine it will remove. This information will be on the data sheet for the filter. So you'll have to estimate the parts per million (of chlorine) and the total water volume through the filter, this will tell you when you need to change the filter.

jaxy999

mashling wrote: »

Actually, I just found a site that seems to have them >>

http://www.aquaeuro.ie/products_eu.asp?CategoryID=120&Cat=Shower%20Filters

I have no idea if it works though...

Also found this one on Amazon >>

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Shower-Filter-more-scale/dp/B001MZ49JU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1257440397&sr=8-1

It nearly sounds too good to be true...

Cheers!