Water Filters???

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sarabhealed
sarabhealed Member Posts: 179
edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment

Any thoughts about the best type of water filter? Any recommendations on particular brands you've liked? Thanks for any input!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2009

    Best: whole house reverse osmosis system.

    Brita and Pur are pretty good and fairly inexpensive options. Both remove bacteria, fungi, protozoans, lead, chlorine, copper and some other nasties.

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  • desdemona222b
    desdemona222b Member Posts: 776
    edited February 2009

    I really like the Brita pitchers.  If you've never had water from one, it's so delicious, sarah, that you can really tell the filter worked.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2009

    I agree. My city has good water but it's very chlorine-y. Brita takes it away totally.

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  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited February 2009

    I've been using brita for years.  I wish more people would -- all those plastic bottles of water are so wasteful.  I also find bottled water just tastes "wet", brita is better.

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  • Katalin
    Katalin Member Posts: 230
    edited February 2009

    Brita!  I have one that attaches to my kitchen faucet...I love it!

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  • marejo
    marejo Member Posts: 1,356
    edited February 2009

    I, too, have a Brita pitcher.  I like it a lot....the water is crystal clear and tastes great.

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  • lexislove
    lexislove Member Posts: 2,645
    edited February 2009

    Brita pitcher here too. I like it!

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  • bmdaley
    bmdaley Member Posts: 292
    edited February 2009

    My nutritionist recommended I put a water filter on my shower head to get the chlorine out from waterwise.com 

    I don't know if this is accurate but here's a bit of information about chlorine in shower --

    http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/chlorinyours.html

    And even though you're not drinking water in the shower, you can absorb many times more chlorine in a shower than you do by drinking the same water! Tests show that your body can absorb more chlorine as a result of a 10-minute shower than if you drank eight glasses of the same water.

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited February 2009

    Love my Brita too, even gave one to my mil when she said something about wanting to filter her water. My mom bought one after she went on city water.

    Sheila

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  • orange1
    orange1 Member Posts: 930
    edited February 2009

    I'm afraid of any water filter that filters water into a plastic container.  I'm more afraid of what the plastic is adding then of what the filter is taking out.

    Of course, since cancer diagnosis, I'm afraid of everything.  Unfortunately, this fear did not stop me from eating chocolate cake today.

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  • Katalin
    Katalin Member Posts: 230
    edited March 2009

    Brita says they are not using the bad plastic for their pitchers.  You could always store the water in a glass pitcher in the fridge...just remember to keep the filter wet...

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  • karen_3
    karen_3 Member Posts: 17
    edited March 2009

    I just purchased an Aquasana dual filter for shower and for my kitchen faucet, has already shipped and I purchased it today.  This is the BEST buy in water filters, it filters out chlorine and more other toxins than other filters studied.  I'm a researcher by nature and profession (Analyst) and installing this equates to 9 cents per gallon, which is a lot more than I now pay to bring in distilled water from any retail source, www.aquasanausa.com

    just trying to help - it's amazing what I've read re: the affects of chlorine and how USA is the only place on earth that adds chlorine to water and not because it's good for us, because it's cheap!  go USA! 

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  • orange1
    orange1 Member Posts: 930
    edited March 2009

    What does the chlorine do to you?

    Thanks,

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  • AccidentalTourist
    AccidentalTourist Member Posts: 365
    edited March 2009

    Good news.  Brita makes glass water pitcher now.  It costs £40 in the UK but there was a special offer where you get it with 12 months supply of cartridges which would cost you that much so you practically get it for free.  This may well be available in the USA too.

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  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 1,595
    edited March 2009

    One thing chlorine does is compete with iodine for the same receptors in our bodies.  So does flourine and bromine.  Iodine deficiencies are more and more common due to people consuming less salt.  Plus, iodine used to be in our bread products and that practice was discontinued decades ago. 

    I'm glad to hear brita has a glass pitcher now.  

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  • orange1
    orange1 Member Posts: 930
    edited March 2009

    I'm going to check into the glass water pitcher too.

    Thanks for the information althea and Accidental.

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