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Vitashower Vitamin C Shower Filter and Vitabath Vitamin C Tablets Remove Chlorine and Chloramines from Your Shower and Bath Water. CuZn Chloramine KDF 85 Water Filters Remove Chloramine from Your Drinking Water.

The EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, for a hazard ranking under Section 112(g) of the Clean Air Act Amendments, considers chlorine to be a "high concern" pollutant based on severe acute toxicity.

"Chlorine is so dangerous" according to biologist/chemist Dr. Herbert Schwartz," that it should be banned. Putting chlorine in the water is like starting a time bomb. Cancer, heart trouble, premature senility, both mental and physical are conditions attributable to chlorine treated water supplies. It is making us grow old before our time by producing symptoms of ageing such as hardening of the arteries."

New research published this year by Dr. Michael Plewa, a professor at the University of Illinois, shows that the disinfection byproducts (DBPs) created from the use of chloramine are much more toxic than the DBPs of chlorine. These new nitrogen-containing DBPs are currently not regulated by the EPA. They are in California water supplies and he recommends that water agencies switch back to chlorine.

Chloramine is a mixture of chlorine and ammonia, which is added to the water of many cities as a substitute for free chlorine. It is often referred to in the plural, as “chloramines,” because it can take on a number of forms according to the pH and mineral content of the water.

Chloramine is a combination of chlorine and ammonia.

Chloramine is used to disinfect water supplies (like the Hetch Hetchy system.) Water utilities often refer to chloramine as monochloramine.

In reality, chloramine exists as three different forms or species: monochloramine (NH2Cl), dichloramine (NHCl2) and trichloramine (NCl3). They are chemically related and are easily converted into each other; thus, they are more appropriately called chloramines.

The three species of chloramine constantly and rapidly shift from one form to another. The species that predominates is dependent on pH, temperature, turbulence, and the chlorine to ammonia ratio.

Even time plays a factor because after a day or so, with no changes in conditions, monochloramine in a water system will slowly degrade to form dichloramine and some trichloramine.

Chloramines are all respiratory irritants with trichloramine being the most toxic (order of toxicity: monochloramine < dichloramine < trichloramine-most severe.)

In contrast to what water utilities claim, it is impossible to have only monochloramine. It is not unusual in water systems for harmful di and trichloramines to occur.

Showering may negatively affect our health more than we ever thought. Gasses as a rule are less soluble in hot water, and when heated, the free chlorine in water escapes into the air we breathe. When taking a shower chlorine gasses are steadily increased in the air to an extent that we breathe the harmful fumes. Regularly taking hot showers with chlorinated water could irritate the lungs and pose a health risk.

How to Get Chloramine Out of Bathing Water

Some individuals may choose to reduce exposure to chlorine or chloramine. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) has recently been included in AWWA (American Water Works Association) Standard (AWWA, 2005b) as one of the methods for dechlorination of disinfected water mains.

There are no NSF International certified point of use devices utilizing Vitamin C, however SFPUC (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission) determined that 1000 mg of Vitamin C removes chloramine completely in a medium size bathtub. Vitashower SF-1 Shower Filter and Vitabath tablets remove chlorine and chloramine from your bathing water and:

Rejuvenate your skin
Restore your hair's natural shine and luster
Invigorate your lungs

VITASHOWER SF-1 Vitamin C Shower Filters $35.95 SALE! Save 30% $25.17

Vitamin C Shower Filter contains 210 grams of pharmaceutical grade Vitamin C, capable of neutralizing chlorine in 15,000 gallons of water. more info

VITABATH VITAMIN C DECHLORINATION TABLETS $19.95

Neutralizes Chlorine and Chloramines in Bath, Hot Tub and Spa Water
If you prefer taking a bath, but don't want chlorine or chloramines in your bath water, use Vitabath Vitamin C tablets to remove the chlorine and chloramines from your bath water. more info

How to Get Chloramine Out of Drinking Water

Another method to remove chloramines is with a KDF 85 filter, such as those used in the CuZn Chloramines Countertop and Under-Counter Water Filters and using Zeolite, which is used in the Aquasana Countertop, Under-Counter and Whole House filtration system.