While people tend to focus more on the quality of their drinking water, they often overlook the composition of their shower water.

Research has found that individuals are exposed to more harmful effects of chlorine and its by-products by bathing or showering in chlorinated water compared to consuming the disinfected water. Although our bodies can tolerate a certain amount of chlorine in drinking water, the inhalation and absorption of harmful chemicals through our skin when showering directly enters our bloodstream with increased health risk than through ingestion.

It has been tested that taking a single 10-minute shower or a 30-minute bath leads to a higher internal dose of chloroform and trichloroethene than with drinking two litres of disinfected water.