{"product_id":"mosswell-filtered-shower-head","title":"Mosswell Filtered Shower Head — Takes the Chlorine Out on the Way Through","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- x-tinymce\/html --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eYour water is treated long before it reaches you. That is a good thing — right up until you stand in it.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMunicipal water is chlorinated so it stays safe in the pipes. By the time it reaches your shower the chlorine has done its job. What is left has nothing to do but sit on your skin and hair for ten minutes a day, in heat, as steam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a shower head and a 20-stage filter in a single housing. It takes the chlorine out on the way through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe four stages that do the real work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty stages sounds like a lot. Four of them do the work, and we would rather tell you which.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKDF-55.\u003c\/strong\u003e A copper-zinc alloy. Water passing over it converts free chlorine into harmless chloride, and pulls out heavy metals — lead, mercury, cadmium — along the way. It keeps working at shower temperature, which is precisely where ordinary carbon filters start to fall away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCalcium sulfite.\u003c\/strong\u003e The media used for dechlorination in municipal pools. Effective in hot water, and fast enough to keep up at full flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoconut-shell activated carbon.\u003c\/strong\u003e Catches organics and the smell with them. Rated to one micron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVitamin C.\u003c\/strong\u003e A second pass at any chlorine and chloramine the first three miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround those four: stainless steel mesh and PP cotton at both ends of the cartridge for rust, sediment and grit, and ceramic and mineral beads making up the balance of the twenty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat changes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChlorine, chloramine, and the flat chemical smell that comes with them. Rust, sediment and grit carried by older pipework. Traces of heavy metals — lead, mercury, cadmium, iron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe water feels different. Less of the tightness and squeak that heavily chlorinated water leaves on skin and hair. This is a change in the water, not a treatment for you — we will not tell you it does more than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFive settings, and none of them are weak\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRain. Mist. Massage. Rain and mist together. Rain and massage together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe filter sits inline, above the head, and does not throttle the flow — 8 litres a minute, about 2.1 gallons, within the US standard. A removable flow limiter is fitted if you want it gentler. The nozzles are self-cleaning silicone: rub them with a thumb and the limescale comes off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIt fits your shower. It takes about two minutes.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStandard G1\/2\" thread — the universal size across North America and Europe. It goes on the existing shower arm by hand. Washers and thread tape are in the box, and no tools are needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRinse the new cartridge under a tap for twenty seconds before first use to flush loose carbon dust. Run it upside down and rinse again. That is the whole installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIt ships with a spare. That is the point.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo cartridges in the box — one fitted, one waiting. Roughly every three to four months for a typical household, the cartridge unscrews and a fresh one drops in. The filter is new again. You are not replacing the shower head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is about eight months of filtered water before you buy anything. When you do, replacement cartridges come in packs of four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat this filter does not do\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would rather you know before you buy than after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt does not remove fluoride.\u003c\/strong\u003e No shower filter at this size does, whatever the listing says. Fluoride removal needs activated alumina or reverse osmosis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt does not permanently soften hard water.\u003c\/strong\u003e It reduces scale-forming deposits and the metals that come with them. 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