Reddit mentions of Berkey Shower Filter WITHOUT Shower Head - Reduces up to 95% of chlorine

I get vitamin C powder in the bulk section at my local organic grocery store. You could probably find vitamin C powder on Amazon but you wouldn't need more than 100g. I have read that it only takes 1g of vitamin C powder to treat 100 gallons of water.

>Ascorbic Acid
One gram of ascorbic acid will neutralize 1 milligram per liter of chlorine per 100 gallons of water. The reaction is very fast. The chemical reaction (Tikkanen and others 2001) of ascorbic acid with chlorine is shown below:

>C5H5O5CH2OH + HOCL → C5H3O5CH2OH + HCl + H2O

>Ascorbic acid + Hypochlorous acid → Dehydroascorbic acid + Hydrochloric acid + water

Here's the shower filter I got. I also bought a water filter/purifier from the same company, Berkey recently. I was using my parent's well water and transporting 5-10gallons a week to my new place in Maryland where I just recently moved to. My dad lives on a farm in Virginia and I like the water there but my gf didn't. She, for some reason, thought it tasted weird. I thought it was fine because it was full of naturally occurring minerals (including a little bit of naturally occurring fluoride) but no chlorine like her tap water. She was drinking charcoal Brita filtered tap (charcoal filters only remove 50% of impurities) before I started dating her and the Berkey filter beats well water by a lot. And regular tap water doesn't even compare to well water or the purified water from the Berkey filter.

This is where we got ours. It's not cheap but it's an investment in your health. We got the Royal Berkey and the two extra fluoride filters because they filter out arsenic as well.

There are probably other water purifiers out there but this is is the one we got. So shop around if you feel like you need to.

You can use this website to see how contaminated your local city's tap water is. As well as what it's treated/contaminated with. I saw that and was immediately up for buying my own filter as my city was severely contaminated.

Your other option is to get 5 or 10 gallon jugs and going to your local organic grocery store and paying 40-80¢/gallon for reverse osmosis or deionized water. Then you'd have to add concentrated liquid minerals back into the water. I used to do this but the convenience of having my own filter at home and not having to lug heavy gallons of water back and forth was a no-brainer for me.

Edit: I thought I would need a fluoride shower filter because I was under the impression that fluoride, when heated up, would be in the steam of your shower but it's too heavy to be steam at low enough temperatures to comfortably take a shower and not scorch yourself. And it doesn't get absorbed through the skin either. However, chlorine does turn into steam and breathing it in is worse for you than it being absorbed in your skin or consumed in your water. So when you take a bath you can eliminate harmful chlorine, chloramine, and chloramide (new chlorine derivatives that are even more toxic but cheaper to produce and are more effective at killing bacteria) by adding vitamin C powder. And when showering with the chlorine filter you no longer breathe the toxic shit in.

Arizona here too. You may want to invest in a chlorine filter for your shower head, something like this is good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BWIWYGC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_P9Qnzb05K3KR5 but double check how expensive replacement filters are. They highly chlorinate the water in the summer where I live and I was having similar problems a few years ago (same hair types and have lived in the same two places with the same weird curly to straight/wavy business). I also use Hairstory and my hair has been awesome since I switched to co washing (getting a water softener and whole house filtration made a huge difference too, even before I stopped using shampoo).