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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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