Your water in your shower may be to blame for your tangled, lifeless, lackluster, hard to manage health. Here's why a shower filter may benefit your hair health.
Calcium, Iron, and Magnesium while all essential minerals our bodies need internally, but aren't so good for our hair on the outside. These minerals can be the root cause of difficult to manage hair - hair that may tangle easy, is dryer, is prone to breakage, and may lay lifeless or be lackluster.
Topeka's water scores a pH value of 9.4 and it contains varying levels of calcium, chloride, magnesium, silica, sodium, sulfate, nickel, and potassium and of course lot of other stuff that isn't really great for your hair.
The general pH of hair is 3.67 and the scalp sits at around 5.5. That means that when we wash our hair, the water alone raises our hair's pH above it's normal level. Conditioner is meant to lower that pH back down since shampoo is also usually formulated at a higher pH than the hair and scalp. But conditioner may not be enough in some cases and that's where a shower filter comes in.
Shower filters are designed to neutralize the less than ideal hard water minerals, capture sediment, reduce chlorine, and some can even infuse the water with beneficial minerals and boost oxygen levels in the water for healthier hair and skin. You could install a whole house water filter, but for the sake of hair and beauty and the cost of such today, we'll just focus on an in shower filter - which is a cheaper and just as effective solution specifically for our hair and skin.
Here are the benefits for washing your hair with filtered water:
Reduce dryness and breakage
Unfiltered water exposes your hair and skin to minerals and chemicals that take away your hair's natural properties and raise the pH. Chemicals such as chlorine use strong oxidization that strips the hair shaft of it's protein and oils and these minerals and chemicals can build up in the hair, leading to breakage.
Easier to manage hair
Improves scalp health
Improve the effectiveness of your hair products
Extend the life of your hair color and create less problematic
Saves you money
SO GET THE WATER FILTER. YOUR SKIN AND HAIR WILL THANK YOU!
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