Archive for the ‘Filtration’ Category

Pure Water 2GO featured in Milwaukee Journal

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

As you may have noticed, portable water filters have gained in popularity recently. The idea of a filter built into a water bottle is not a new one, but it is to a lot of people. Portable filtration units allow you go virtually anywhere and filter your own water. No more buying bottled water, standing in lines, throwing bottles away, or wondering exactly what you are drinking.

Filter bottles come in many sizes, shapes, and colors and filters are available to filter basic chemicals like chlorine and lead all the way to complex membrane filtration systems that can actually remove Bacteria and Giradia. The best thing about these types of filters in the portability. A Biological filter bottle can be taken anywhere in the world, and has the ability to literally save your life if you are in an area where you cannot find safe drinking water.

Pure Water 2GO was recently featured in the Milwaukee Journal as having the best filtration systems on the market today, and all in a portable unit.

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Shower Filters

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Shower Filters are an amazing product that will change the way you feel in the shower. Chlorine is universally known to be bad for our bodies and is even proven to cause cancer. It is used in every tap water supply system in the US because it is a cheap way to kill bacteria. The problem is that chlorine also kills us slowly. We all also know lead is horrible for our bodies and causes a wide range of problems, especially in children and young adults. When we shower, our pores open and we inhale vapors that contain these dangerous chemicals. We feel clean and healthy, but the reality is we are poisoning our bodies. You have probably noticed the dry skin and hair that chlorine causes, and now it’s time to do something about it. You can feel clean and healthy every time you get out of the shower with a simple shower filter. The filter removes the harmful chlorine and lead from the water allowing us to finally be able to cleanse ourselves without the danger. Every home should have shower filters installed in every shower. It’s a must to keep yourself and your family safe and healthy.

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Brita Bottles

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Brita Bottles are no longer in production. For a limited time, Brita produced the Brita Fill & Go bottle, which was a simply bottle with a filtration device enclosed. Even with the background Brita has in water filtration, they could not correctly engineer a bottle that worked and was acceptable. The good news is, the Brita Bottles are not the only bottles on the market. There are other companeis that make filter bottles similar today. Check for a distributor near you.

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Shower Filters, What am I looking for?

Monday, February 19th, 2007

As shower filters and shower filter technology have advanced and changed frequently in the last 2 years, it is becoming difficult to keep up with what is the best filter technology and what we need to be concerned with. It seems when one test is completed, a new one is on the market.

KDF: This is by far the most popular and most capable filtering element in shower filter technology. It is widely accepted to be an excellent and long lasting filtration media for shower filter elements. While this filter media is considered excellent for removal of all types of chlorine, it is better at free chlorine neutralization.

GAC: Granular activated carbon is typically used for drinking filters and low-flow filters. There have been many manufactures that attempt to use this in shower filters. All studies indicate it does a poor job. The filter media does not last very long, and it spits out a black ooze which must be immediately cleaned. This filter element has varying filtering ability depending on water quality and water temperature.

Chlorgon: This is a combination of calcium sulfite with a ceramic binder. This has turned out to be a huge surprise in the shower filter market. This filter media, when combined with KDF has an amazing ability to reduce combined chlorine. Shower filters with this element are more difficult to find because the chemical makeup of chlorgon is proprietary and patented. Make sure your shower filter has this element.

Minerals, PI, Special Blend, Ceramics: These are all useless. Mostly they are used as add-on sales and marketing ploys. No filters that use these types of materials test very well at all.

Check with your shower filter company and make sure you are getting the best filter available, your skin and body will thank you.

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If you want healthier hair and skin: read this!

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Would you wash your hair in a swimming pool everday? The answer is NO! We put chlorine in our pools to help kill bacteria and other chemicals.

In addition, chlorine is cosmetically damaging to both hair and skin.  For example, chlorine bonds with proteins in the hair that make it dry and brittle, causing “blondes to turn green” and it also washes out the natural color. It can also strip the skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry, itchy, and prematurely aged.

Here are a few things a Shower Filter will remove:

  • Chlorine – up to 99%
  • Iron oxided (rust water)
  • Hydrogen sulfide (sulfer smell)
  • Dirt
  • Sediment
  • Odors
  • Scale build-up
  • Traces of heavy metal

If you are looking to bring back the moisture and health of both your hair and skin, then you need to replace your old useless shower heads with shower filters.

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Chlorine Disinfection Tablets

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Need additional disinfection? Pure Water 2GO Redi-Chlor tablets to the rescue! These tablets are designed for emergency preparedness, disaster relief, water storage, bacteria and virus disinfection, humanitarian relief, hunting, camping, recreation, natural disasters, and military use. 1 tablet will disinfect 2 gallons of water! During long-term water storage, even with clean water, bacteria and other organisms can grow and multiply. Keeping a chlorine pack available can ensure safe drinking water in any situation.

Want safe water but don’t like chlorine taste? Drop a redi-chlor chlorine disinfection tablet in your water filter bottle and the bottle will remove the chlorine taste and odor as you drink.

Chlorine Tablet

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What is Activated Charcoal?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Charcoal is carbon. Activated charcoal has been treated with oxygen to open up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms.

The Encyclopedia Britannica states that the use of special manufacturing techniques result in highly porous charcoals, that have surface areas of 300-2,000 sq. meters per gram. These so-called active, or activated charcoals are widely used to adsorb odorous or colored substances from gases or liquids.

The word adsorb is important. When a material adsorbs something, it attaches to it by chemical attraction. The huge surface area of activated charcoal gives it countless bonding sites. When certain chemicals are trying to pass, they attach to the surface and are trapped.

Activated charcoal is good at trapping other carbon-based impurities (”organic” chemicals) from water, as well as things like chlorine. This is the reason these types of filters are so commonly used in water filters and water filter products. Many other chemicals are not attracted to carbon at all – sodium, nitrates, etc… so they pass right through. This means that an activated charcoal filter is especially important because it will remove certain impurities that can be harmful to us. It also means that, once all of the bonding sites are filled, an activated charcoal filter stops working.  At that point you must replace the filter.

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Preventing Cryptosporidiosis

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

According to the CDC, some, but not all available water filters remove Cryptosporidium. Some of these filter designs are more suited to removing Cryptosporidium than others. Both RO (Reverse Osmosis) filters and filters that work by micro-straining will work. Look for a filter that has a pore size smaller than 1 Micron. This means that the filter will remove microbes that are 1 micron or larger. There are two types of pore size: “Absolute Micron” and “Nominal Micron” — Absolute will consistently remove microbes larger than the stated pore size. Nominal will allow 20% to 30% of the microbes at that size pass through. Make sure you talk to the manufacturer of the product to be sure the filter is filtering as you require it.

The Pure Water 2GO Biological Bottle has an Absolute .2 Micron Filter. With this pore size being much smaller than 1 Micron, the Biological Bottle not only filters out Crypto, but many other organisms that may be much smaller than 1 micron.

 

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Portable Water Filter Blog

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Welcome to our Portable Water Filter Blog

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