Hard Water Is the Enemy of Your Hair. How To Get Rid of It?
PURE WATER IS THE BASIS OF HEALTHY HAIR AND SKIN.
How does hard water affect hair and skin?
Most households in Slovakia have hard water, and for a long time I was looking for a way to ensure that our hair and skin suffer as little as possible from its influence. But first, let's take a closer look at how hard water affects our everyday life.
How do I know if I have hard water at home?
The fact that we have hard water at home is very easy to recognize, for example, visible limescale on faucets, a kettle that quickly becomes clogged, deposits on dishes, and the like.
When washing your hair or body, you may feel that the products do not lather enough because hard water affects the formation of foam.
Hard water is water rich in soluble minerals such as magnesium and calcium, to a lesser extent it can also be manganese or iron oxides .
How does hard water affect hair and skin?
During daily washing or bathing in hard water in combination with chemical cosmetics, your skin and hair suffer extremely, as minerals settle on it in combination with synthetically produced foams, which subsequently cause drying, irritation, redness and itching.< /strong>
On the left – dirty filter after 3 weeks
Hard water can damage the protective layer of the skin and thus be a trigger for the formation of eczema, dandruff or more serious skin diseases or make their condition even worse. Also, the scalp can become more oily, because hard water takes away its natural protective oil during frequent washing, and when the skin is dried from the outside, it starts to defend itself and produce twice as much oil.
Washing hair in hard water leads to excessive deposition of minerals also on the length of the hair, which in turn leads to dry, brittle, brittle and flyaway hair. The hair is without volume and loses its strength and elasticity, it shortens and therefore many times it seems to us that the hair doesn't grow.
On the other hand, studies have proven that drinking hard water is not as harmful to the human body as it is to the skin and hair. Hard water contains essential minerals such as the aforementioned calcium and magnesium. The body cannot create these two minerals by itself and they also prevent the absorption of some toxic elements and their passage from the intestines into the blood.
How to deal with hard water?
Solutions to soften the hardness of water, today's market offers us several, and I decided on one of the most effective so that hard water does not reach our skin and hair.
Filtration shower head ANDREINE with active carbon the filter will ensure effective softening of water, removal of harmful substances, especially irritating chlorine, impurities from water pipes and heavy metals.
Innovative design shower head supports the overall health of your skin and hair and increases the defense capacity of cells.
After showering, the skin and hair cease to be weighed down and dry. No more unpleasant irritation thanks to the high chlorine content in the water.
The hair takes on a healthier look and the skin is softer and less burdened. This designer shower head also has other advantages, such as a strong stream of water, which ensures perfect washing of shampoo or other cosmetic products from your hair and skin.
How does the filter head work?
The filter head is simply connected to the shower hose. There is a carbon filter with inorganic silver in the handle, which needs to be changed when the filter becomes discolored. You can even monitor the clogging of the filter thanks to the transparent glass. The durability of the filter can be different in every household, because it depends on the level of water hardness. That is why I am attaching a picture of the water hardness map by district in Slovakia.
Treat your skin and hair to cleanliness and lightness, thanks to the shower filter head from ANDREINE.