Info: HOC Shower Filter, Available Either as a Replacement Filter, or with a White Plastic Housing, or with both a White Plastic Housing and a White Adjustable Massage Shower Head
Many cities use chlorine to disinfect the water, but chlorine can be very hard on your skin, hair, and eyes, particularly if you are allergic or sensitive to it, and breathing its vapours over a long term can also contribute to a number of serious health issues. This newly designed high-capacity, high-performance shower filter will remove chlorine, odors, sediment, and other substances for up to a full year in most settings.
Info: HOC Shower Filter, Available Either as a Replacement Filter, or with a White Plastic Housing, or with both a White Plastic Housing and a White Adjustable Massage Shower Head
Many cities use chlorine to disinfect the water, but chlorine can be very hard on your skin, hair, and eyes, particularly if you are allergic or sensitive to it, and breathing its vapours over a long term can also contribute to a number of serious health issues. This newly designed high-capacity, high-performance shower filter will remove chlorine, odors, sediment, and other substances for up to a full year in most settings.
Product Notes:
Universal High Output Shower Filter - For Softer Hair & Skin
Available in your choice of a replacement shower filter cartridge alone, or as a filter complete with housing, or with both a housing and a new Spray Massage Showerhead, with three High-Performance Spray Settings.
The Sprite High-Output Shower Filter is easy to operate: it simply fits between your existing shower pipe and shower head (unless you opt for the one with a shower head included), and contains a replaceable filter cartridge (which you replace after 20,000 gallons or 12 months - whichever comes first).
With an ultra-high strength plastic housing, it's the strongest replaceable shower filter available on the market today. The Model HO2-WH (High Output 2 - White) shower filter is designed to process 9.5 litres or 2.5 gallons per minute (and is activated by starting with just hot water for one minute, first) and also comes with an optional 2.0 GPM flow restrictor, to save water.
Further Reading: Using Shower Filters to Reduce Chlorine Exposure and Improve Health
Sprite will also remove some combined chlorines (such as Sodium Hypochlorite, or liquid swimming pool chlorine); Hydrogen Sulfide (which smells like rotten eggs); and trace amounts of Lead.
NSF/ANSI 177 Certified for Free Available Chlorine Reduction, for 25,000 gallons at 2.5 gallons per minute.
Sprite's HOC (High Output Cartridge) shower filters are not the familiar carbon-based filters, which generally don't work fast enough to keep up with the demand in a point-of-use application for a shower. They use a different filtration medium altogether: Chlorgon, their own patented combination of Calcium, Zinc and Copper, which works somewhat like a car's catalytic converter.
Chlorgon transfers electrons between the molecules in its media and what's flowing through it (a chemical reaction known as "Reduction-Oxidation" or Redox), which converts that free-chlorine the municipalities added to the water to chloride -- whose molecules are not only too large to evaporate into a vapour to be breathed but also too large to be absorbed by the skin, so they just get washed away and carried down through the drain, harmlessly.
Use of a shower filter not only has health benefits, but it also protects your shower head, preventing build-up and ensuring that it can work efficiently over long periods of time.
Suggested Usage:
To replace the cartridges after nine to twelve months of use, simply unscrew the top of the housing from its base by turning counter-clockwise, and pull the cartridge out.
Before inserting the new one (the direction doesn't matter; some even suggest reversing the cartridge's direction every month or so to get more life out of the filter), ensure that the rubber o-rings are still seated properly in their grooves in the top and bottom of the housing, and remove any grit that might be around. If you find it leaks out of the threads, you may want to apply a little petroleum jelly (Vaseline) to the o-rings to get a better seal (or use a silicone-based lubricant, if you have one).
If replacing the entire housing, you may need to use some plumber's / teflon tape around the threads of the shower pipe it fits onto, if it dribbles/leaks.
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