Sonaki's Vit. C Shower Filter is formulated with and made of 100 % natural and food grade Vitamin C, making it the best and safest way to remove chlorine from the tap water, and it is an ideal method to protect the sensitive skin from the chlorine. Sonaki claims the topical use of Vitamin C works as an anti-oxidant on the skin and makes hair shinier and softer.

Beyond the anti-oxidant Vitamin C prevailed in most kind of skincare products, now Sonaki Filtering Technology physically provides you with a natural resolution in the shower and bath.

How it Works:
Vitamin C dechlorination has a lengthy history. It has been used in EPA and APHA methods for the dechlorination. It is being used in the treatment of water. It fully neutralizes both chlorine and chloramines. It is made with an essential vitamin for humans and many animals, which is known to boost the immune system, improve skin and hair of humans. It is also the safest and least toxic of dechlorination agents.

Sonaki's Techno-Shower Filter (VCF-01) releases the exact amount of vitamin to neutralize all chlorine or chloramines as the water passes through the shower filter. When the water is shut off, the filter stops releasing the vitamin. This economy of vitamin release increases the useful life of the filter significantly.

Sonaki's Techno-Shower Filter (VCF-01) contains roughly about 20 grams of Vitamin C and is capable of neutralizing 0.4 ppm chlorine in 10,000 litters (2,500 gallons) of water. The life time is independent on the temperature and pressure of water.

Many natural antioxidants such as L-ascorbic acid is its redox behaviour. Especially, Vitamin-C (ascorbic acid) and some antioxidants rapidly reduces oxidizing chlorine compounds, and it has the advantage of producing inorganic halides and de-hydro ascorbic acid as opposed to halogenated organic molecules as byproducts. In addition to L-ascorbic acid will form chelate complexes with transition metal ions.

Features & Benefits:

• Removes 99.9% of chlorine and chloramines from tap water by using natural Vitamin C filter, zero harsh chemicals needed
• The finest quality food-grade vitamin C filter cartridge with see-through housing
• Filter life is up to 3,000 gallons
• Proven results
  • Improves dry, irritated and itchy skin conditions
  • Good for sensitive and damaged skin
  • Prevents chlorine-caused dandruff
  • Protects hair condition and dyed hair coloring
• Easy to install and use
• Uses 6 patented technologies
• For natural beauty care
  • Improves dry, irritated and itchy skin conditions
  • Good for sensitive and damaged skin
  • Improves hair condition
  • Protects dyed hair
  • Reduces chlorine-caused dandruff
• For baby care
  • Good for baby’s sensitive skin
• For pets
  • Good for fish aquariums – no need to age tap water
  • Protects pets’ skin and hair from the chlorine and chloramines of tap water
• Water savings (up to 10% ~ 50% - see chart below) with its low flow design. Traditional shower's flow rate ranged from 12 ~ 18 L/min, water-saving ones are not lower than 9 L/min. But Massage & Mist models flowrate is &plsmin;5 L/min - at zero expense of comfort & cleansing performance. An effective & efficient shower can:
  1. Saves water (inflow & sewage)
  2. Saves electricity (or gas)
  3. Saves money

• Chlorine has been used in water purification for a very long time. For most of the 20th century chlorine contributed to improved water quality by dramatically reducing water-borne illnesses. The purifying agent - chlorine - has been responsible for the development of our present standard of living, because of the reduction of illnesses which caused better health and productivity. In countries where the water is not treated effectively the economic development of those countries has directly suffered. Sick people, stricken with stomach cramps and diarrhea, after consuming unsafe water, are not productive as they need to get well first.
• However, many pathogens have become resistant to chlorine. Cryptosporidium is one such pathogen. Thanks to its size it can be filtered out with an adequately configured water filter.
• Developments like these make the use of chlorine questionable, but it is still the most widely used water disinfection agent in the world. The main reason: it is the cheapest way to disinfect water. But, it also has strong residual disinfection capacity . This means that chlorine is used everywhere to keep the municipal water free from any re-contamination.
• Tab water is sterilized with HCLO sodium chlorine. The first chlorine is added into the water at filtration plant, in order to disinfect the water and to eliminate organic chemicals, and then second addition of chlorine is completed so as to preserve its chlorine level in the water, prior to water supply to each household. It should be maintained to keep germs and virus away from the end user. (economically efficient in relation with its effectiveness)
• Chlorine is a toxic chemical element of halogen family, which is used for production of oxidizer, bleaching agent, and sterilization-related goods. Chlorine in the tab water can also be reacted by a combination of organic elements to yield a combination of organic chlorine (i.e. environmental hormone) that harms our environment and health.

Chlorine & Chloramines:

• To better appreciate the power of using a vitamin as the dechlorination agent in the Vitamin Shower Filter, the hazards in our water supplies must be better understood. These dangers are real and should not be overlooked or accepted by the general public.
• Chlorine is universally used to chemically disinfect public water systems because of its toxic effect on harmful germs, bacteria and disease-causing organisms. As defined above, chlorine is a toxic gas. With greater exposure to toxic chlorine contained in water supplies, the potential health dangers we face become more real.
• During the bathing process, the chlorine evaporates out of the water and is inhaled. This toxic gas can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. Some reports claim that as much chlorine enters the body by inhaling steamy chlorinated shower vapors or through the open pores of the skin as that which enters the body by drinking chlorinated water during the entire day. This increased exposure to the adverse effects of chlorine by household residents can be from 6 to 100 times more than medically recommended.
• Chlorine also attacks the skin and skin oils, creating a dermal drying effect. Shower water can also cause or worsen skin irritations and rashes as well as drying the skin. Showering and bathing in chlorinated water will also result in the breakage of hair shafts. Because chlorine is absorbed into the body through the skin, additional physical problems can ensue. Chlorinated water can also irritate eyes, leaving them red, itchy and burning. Inhaling the toxic steam can aggravate the sinuses and lungs. Chloramines, although a more stable compound, contains chlorine and ammonia and is also used to control bacteria in water systems. Its harmful effects cause the same dangers as pure chlorine.

Chlorine: Added to all municipal water supplies, this disinfectant hardens arteries, destroys proteins in the body, irritates skin and sinus conditions, and aggravates asthma, allergies, and respiratory problems.

Chloroform: This powerful by product of chlorination causes excessive free radical formation (accelerated aging!), normal cells to mutate, and cholesterol to oxidize. It is a known carcinogen!

Chlorine, Skin & Hair:

• Chlorine is one of the causes of brittle hair

  Hair is still a part of our skin, but the major difference from our skin is that hair is not curable once it is damaged. Chlorine residue oxidizes protein and cuticle causing dull and clumsy looking hair as well as dandruff.

  

• Chlorine is one of the causes of dry skin

  Chlorine is a serious irritant and creates carcinogenic by-products. Persons with sensitive skin, skin rashes, specific skin allergies, very dry skin need the most efficient shower filter to reduce their exposure to the aggressive effects of chlorine to the maximum extent possible. Chlorine dries skin out significantly faster than chlorine free water

  Human skin is made up of protein that protects you from stimulus, irritation and evaporation, and plays other important roles. But chlorine is reacted to destroy protein, which roughens and ages your skin, and causes various troubles to your skin. It worsens atopy-skin disease particularly.

  

Advantages of Vitamin over Traditional Technologies:

• Vitamin C dechlorination has a lengthy history. It has been used in EPA and APHA methods for the dechlorination of lab samples. In the medical industry, it is the standard for critical applications such as dialysis, where the introduction of chlorinated water or toxic chemical would be catatrophic. Breeders of rare fish also choose this method of dechlorination. Very recently, Vitamin dechlorination is being used in the treatment of water. It fully neutralizes both chlorine and chloramines. There are several powerful arguments for using Vitamin instead of KDF, activated carbon or sulfur-based compounds as dechlorination agents. Vitamin utilizes ascorbic acid chemistry for dechlorination. It is made with an essential vitamin for humans and many animals, which is known to boost the immune system, improve skin and hair of humans. It is also the safest and least toxic of dechlorination agents. The research by US EPA found that L-Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) reacts rapidly and stoichiometrically with active chlorine and has limited interactions with disinfection byproducts. They found no interference from L-ascorbic acid or its oxidation product (dehydroascorbic acid) in mutagenicity assays of chlorinated NOM using Salmonella typhimurium TA100, with or without metabolic activation.

  *Urbansky ET, Freeman DM, Rubio FJ, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 2 (3): 253-256 2000, United States Environmental Protection Agency(US EPA), Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Water Supply and Water Resources Division, 26 W Martin Luther King Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45268 USA.

• Activated carbon filtration (AC) is effective in reducing certain organic chemicals and chlorine in cold water. Chlorine is attracted to and held (absorbed) into the surface of the carbon particles. However, the efficiency of absorption is quickly nullified when the water becomes warm. The lifetime of an activated carbon shower filter is very short. An activated carbon shower filter gets clogged very quickly by the dirt it is meant to stop. As soon as that happens, it immediately starts to supply dirty water.
• KDF, another widely used dechlorination media, is comprised of copper and zinc. It removes free chlorine by reversing the electrochemical process that originally separated the chlorine from sodium in a brine solution. It can't, however, remove chloramines and, it's efficiency depends on water temperature, it doesn't work well in cold water.
• There are several other limitations using KDF as a de-chlorinating agent. KDF shower filters are also affected by water pressure. When the water pressure is not high enough, water simply can't pass through the KDF powders. The major problem of KDF shower filters is that the lifetime of the filter depends on the quality of the water passing through it. This is truly a cath-22. When the quality of the water is bad, that's when we need a shower filter the most.
• The dirt a KDF filter removes from the water quickly covers the surface of the KDF that in turn makes the filter ineffective very quickly. When the quality of the water is clean, we don't need a shower filter and KDF shower filters works great and will last a lot longer. Other shower filter manufacturers use sulfur-based compounds such as calcium sulfite or sodium sulfite (or sulfate) as de-chlorinating agents. These sulfur-based compounds can be toxic to humans. The addition of excess sulfite and sulfate chemicals to our water supplies has always been a concern.

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