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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Maisie Bovingdon

8 best shower filters for hard water that transformed my hair and skin

I’ve been a city dweller my entire life, but I’ve only just realised the importance of filtered shower water - (Maisie Bovingdon/The Standard)

Despite living in London my entire life, I never realised how polluted the water truly was until I started using the best filtered shower heads.

Ahead of making the switch, I came across some shocking statistics. According to Scaleguard, 60 per cent of water in the UK is considered “hard or very hard”, with many areas showing “over 200mg of calcium carbonate per litre”, among other contaminants.

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