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Why Aquasana Shower Filter is Good for Your Health

November 10, 2011

 Since I’ve moved to Jakarta one of my main complaints is the dirty tap water, it doesn’t help that we live in an old building and I get massive chunks of metal and stones in my faucet aerator. Eww. We found out that our friends live in houses or apartments that already have a centralized water-filtration system but our landlord refused to provide one for us. He finally gave in after we suffered for 2 years but it does not resolve the problem of hard or over-chlorinated water. (This is common in countries where the water quality is not that great so they make up for it by adding more chlorine).

DID YOU KNOW?

After-swim showers can be equally as damaging. Swimmers are advised that showering immediately afterwards removes the chlorine from the skin, but there is at least as much chlorine in the shower water as the pool – which damages your skin even further. Additionally, the heat and steam from the shower opens the pores, allowing even greater absorption through the damaged skin. Chlorine also combines with water and steam to form chloroform – which can cause respiratory conditions that work directly against a swimmer’s efforts. One study found that over one quarter of swim-team members suffer from some degree of asthma due to chlorine inhalation.

The skin on my face started breaking out and became really rough and I had to go to a derma in Manila to fix it! I don’t usually go to the derma except for the occasional laser treatment and this was a first for me since I graduated from puberty. (I don’t even get facials!) When I got back we had to buy a water filter for our bathroom faucet so that we could finally brush our teeth and wash our faces with it. Previously we had to use bottled water. That’s right… we CANNOT brush our teeth with unfiltered tap. It not only smells strongly of rust but in large quantities it is BROWN.

Check out all that gunk in our filter!

That still left us with awful rust-smelling showers which is why I love going home to the Philippines and being able to breath normally and have my eyes open in the shower. It stings too much here! I’ve been looking for a simple shower filter until one day a fairy-god(OC)mother appeared and sent me an Aquasana Shower Filter all the way from Manila! (God bless OC Mom‘s heart! And thanks for lugging it all the way to Jakarta Albert!)

“Why a shower filter? Anyone who has ever swam in a chlorinated pool knows how chlorine robs moisture from skin and hair. What most people don’t realize is that there is typically as much, or more, chlorine in your tap water as in most pools. The Aquasana Shower Filteruses an innovative dual-filter process. Stage 1 reduces chlorine and enhances pH balance with a natural copper/zinc mineral media called KDF-55D. Stage 2 uses a carbonized coconut shell media for the reduction of synthetic chemicals and VOCs. Your shower water will feel better, and be better for you. Aquasana promises great benefits for asthma and allergy sufferers due to the reduction of harmful chlorine vapors.“

– SOMETHING SNAPPEE

That still left us with awful rust-smelling showers which is why I love going home to the Philippines and being able to breath normally and have my eyes open in the shower. It stings too much here! I’ve been looking for a simple shower filter until one day a fairy-god(OC)mother appeared and sent me an Aquasana shower filter all the way from Manila! (God bless OC Mom‘s heart! And thanks for lugging it all the way to Jakarta Albert!)

This simple shower upgrade reduces more than 90% of chlorine and harmful VOCs from shower water and enhances pH balance for a healthy and refreshing shower.

HAIR

Celebrity stylist River Lloyd, “One of the most important things you can do for your hair is to wash it with filtered, chlorine-free water. Your hair will be noticeably softer and shiner, your scalp will be healthier, and your color will stay true and last longer. Shampooing with filtered water will also reduce your need for damaging, heat-based styling tools like flat irons because your hair will be cleaner and more manageable out of the shower.”

After using Aquasana shower filter my hair started drying faster, felt smoother and needed less styling!  I was actually having good hair days – gasp! Check out my hair in the last black tie event I attended below… I never would have thought I could get that sexy styled hair without a professional hair stylist in a salon, but after using Aquasana shower filter I can do it myself without much effort and styling products because my hair is smoother and healthier than ever!

SKIN

My skin has always been dry but it got even worse here in Jakarta. I would be so itchy from dry skin I couldn’t sleep and TD would get worried because I scratch so much I get wounds and scabs on my legs. I was already plying myself with lotion AND dry oil just to lock in the moisture! It was SO sticky I tell you! But I had to do it just so I wouldn’t be itchy. But now I use only lotion (I even forget to sometimes!) but I don’t suffer the same crazy discomfort any more. (Phew!)

☁ ☂ ☁

Basically it doesn’t matter how expensive your skincare and hair care regimen is, if the water you bathe in is chock full of harmful chemicals then your hair and skin still wont be able to retain all the moisture, vitamins and other expensive goodies you slather on it! (Kahit mag Creme de la Mer ka pa!)

Now one lucky reader from the Philippines will get to try out the benefits of Aquasana shower filter FOR FREE! I’ll be posting the contest mechanics on Monday, 14 November 2011, so please drop by and join!


Aquasana Water Filters – Philippines

2504 Link Edge Office, 139 Corporate Center, Valero St. Salcedo Village, Makati City, Philippines
Hotline: 506-1978 or 0917-806AQUA (2782)
Office Hours:  9:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. Mondays – Fridays only.
General Information: inquiry@aquasanastore.com.ph
Customer Care: customercare@aquasanastore.com.ph

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  1. (eye)candy says

    November 10, 2011 at 2:20 AM

    Ew, brown water, seriously??

    My hair behaved too after using the Aquasana shower filter. Your post reminded me it’s time to replace my filter. 🙂

    Reply
    • diplomaticwife says

      November 10, 2011 at 3:28 PM

      Haha yeah brown! Ang galing noh? Who would have thunk that de-chlorinating would do so much for ze hair!!

      Reply
  2. OC Mom in Manila says

    November 11, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    Thanks for the feature! 🙂

    Reply

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We are very lucky that the Geneva Airport is very near because it is located 4 km northwest of the city centre. It takes us less than 15mins by car & is easier to get to than airports outside the city.

BUT also means that many of the Geneva residents suffer from AIRCRAFT NOISE POLLUTION. 

In some parts of Geneva, like Vernier, Meyrin, Bellevue, Versoix, etc will have the airplane pass on top of you or very near you. This is something to consider when you are MOVING TO GENEVA & looking for a home.

When we were in @bioparcgeneve recently, it felt like airplane after airplane was going overhead every few mins. The poor animals were screaming each time.

A  report by the European Environment Agency(EEA) in 2017 said that 12% or 73,500 Geneva residents have their hearing disturbed by aircraft noise. Probably the figures have risen with the natural increase population & travel?

“The EEA describes noise as a pervasive pollutant that directly affects the health and well-being of humans and wildlife. Populations exposed to high noise levels can exhibit stress reactions, sleep-stage changes, and clinical symptoms like hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. All of these can contribute to premature mortality. The World Health Organization (WHO) reckons that humans exposed to noise levels above 40 decibels at night experience adverse health effects.

Across Europe it is estimated that noise contributed to at least 900,000 additional cases of hypertension in 2011.” - @le_news_ch 

DID YOU KNOW that owners of homes affected by the noise can request for soundproofing to be paid for by GVA? 

Check if your home meets the conditions for FREE SOUNDPROOFING c/o Genève Aéroport here:

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Whenever we go to Spain, we love to go to @mercadona. It might be small but has a good affordable selection. It’s my thrifty Spanish MIL’s favorite.

We were so lucky that we had a @mercadona right beside our hotel Marina Badalona. Very convenient.
Our favorite things to bring home are:

☕️ frozen porras (bigger than churros)

🐑 baby lamb chops (the only lamb I eat coz it’s not malangsa & all you need to do is fry till crispy in olive oil with S&P) it’s called Chuletas Cabrito but TD calls it lechal 

🐽 chicharon or crispy pork rinds

🥔 Homemade potato chips. The best potato chips for me are from Spain. I don’t know how it’s so much yummier! The olive oil???

🎣 canned Sardines & tuna for me and Yaya B

TIPS:

🧊 For frozen items, we usually ask the hotel before we buy if they can put it in their freezer until we fly.

✍️ I usually bring different sizes ZIPLOCK BAGS, MASKING TAPE & MARKER when we travel so we can put everything in, label with our name and room number.

📸 then I take a photo so we can just show it to the staff and they can easily find it in their freezer.

✈️ When it’s time to pack, I placed our beach towels around the frozen packages coz I know they will SWEAT & I don’t want our other things to get wet 💦 

What  grocery do you usually like to shop for when in Spain? Where do you buy them?

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📍Chem. des Tuileries 140, 1293 Bellevue

After the lovely BIOPARC we headed across to this chill park with ample PARKING that had so many things for kids & anyone who wants to move & work out:

⚽️ The kids wanted to kick around a football so we borrowed a ball from @boxup.app (they also have pumps, 🏓, 🏐, 🏀, etc) just download the app & turn on your Bluetooth & follow instructions! Return after 3hrs.

👟 Outdoor gym - this was a huge hit with the kids

⚽️ football - this too!

🏀 basketball court

🏓 Ping-pong 

🏐 Beach volleyball court

🤸🏻 Monkey bars

🛝 small playground

Thanks for the wonderful afternoon guys @lidia_otilia_botezatu! 
How lucky are we to have these beautiful, clean open spaces. And the free rental gear is AMAZING! so convenient.

This is in Geneva, about 15mins drive from where we live.

SAVE THIS on your list of PARKS to visit!

⚠️ WARNING

it’s in the airplane path so there will be loud noise from that. It’s not as close as the bioparc but bring earplugs/earphones if you are sensitive.

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Yesterday was a holiday in Switzerland (except for Geneva). It was raining & miserable so I wanted to take @diplobaby out for a few hours. Thankfully midafternoon it stopped raining.

We met with our friends @lidia_otilia_botezatu in @bioparcgeneve and had a lovely time in this volunteer run zoo.

TIPS💡

🆓 It’s free for families on your FIRST visit!

🦢 you walk inside animal enclosures so wear shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty/stepping on poop. We wore boots & happy we did

🅿️ there’s parking inside on wood chips, if it’s full there’s another pavement parking (free up to 4hrs) across the roundabout 

🦔 Do not feed or touch the animals no matter how cute they are

🗺️ There are 2 routes (purple & blue) and 1-1.5hrs #diplshould be enough 

❎ Park closes at 4pm

SAVE THIS NOW if your looking for a fun & not too you can do in well und2hrs. It’s nice that you can go inside unlike most zoos so it’s quite unique.

⚠️ WARNING

it’s in the airplane path so there will be loud noise from that. @diplobaby who is super noise sensitive did not mind as much as I thought he would because he was so entertained by the animals.

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MARINA BADALONA HOTEL At first we were going to MARINA BADALONA HOTEL 

At first we were going to stay in the heart of Barcelona, where we stayed 8 years ago (I didn’t even know that @diplobaby was already in my tummy at 2 weeks old) but the “hotel” is now expensive with no amenities & small rooms. So TD found a hotel in #badalona - a 20min taxi ride from Barcelona city center - that was so fabulous & slightly less expensive.

SAVE THIS NOW for future trips to Barcelona

WHY I LOVED marinabadalona
🤍 All white interiors was so beautiful & calming
🤍 Gorgeous view of the Marina 
🤍 Everything was so aesthetic, even where you tap your card to enter the room
🤍 Massive bed
🤍 Electric curtains
🤍 Lots of closet space & hangers
🤍 2 TVs
🤍 Refrigerator
🤍 White/cream Nespresso & kettle
🤍 Architecture & interior design is sooooo me!
🤍 Small rooftop pool with unbelievable views (need to do a separate post)
🤍 5min walk to the beach
🤍 Gorg esplanade
🤍 Yummy restos beside
🤍 Mercadona right beside - so convenient!

FEW RECOS FOR IMPROVEMENT:
✌️ Loved the textured wall paper, but it’s difficult to keep clean inside the bathroom
✌️ The bathroom surface area was a bit small & our stuff kept falling off the sink
✌️ Not a single chair in the family room so when we had room service we had to eat standing
✌️ No salt & pepper with room service so we called to ask & were told we would be charged for them taking it up. After TD clarified that there was no S&P with our meal, they said they would bring it up. The person brought a small bowl of of salt & pepper combined. The salt was for DiploBaby’s salmon, but he can’t eat pepper, I wanted both for my pesto. Had to run down in my slippers & the resto staff were very apologetic coz who serves a mixed S&P ever? They gave me individually packaged ones which I really appreciated.
✌️ Since the hotel has a pool & is by the beach, I wish there was a place to hang & dry swim suits. Our suits & watershoes did not dry in the tub.

All in all the value we got from staying in this hotel was so high compared to a more expensive hotel in Barcelona. No hotel stay is perfect.

Now, would I stay there again? YES PLEASE! Would you?

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