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Municipal tap water legally contains chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals, microplastics, PFAS, and dozens of regulated chemical compounds. This page is the complete reference: what each contaminant is, where it comes from, why it matters for your skin, and Filterbaby's verified removal rate.
The same chemical used to disinfect swimming pools is flowing through your showerhead every day.
Water suppliers add chlorine to kill bacteria in your pipes — which is necessary. The problem is that chlorine doesn't stop working when it reaches your skin. It strips the natural oils from your hair and skin barrier, disrupts the healthy microbiome on your skin's surface, and has been linked to dryness, irritation, and accelerated skin aging with chronic exposure.
Chloramine is a variant — formed when chlorine reacts with ammonia — and it's even harder to remove than chlorine alone. Filterbaby removes both.
These aren't trace amounts. They're byproducts of the water treatment process itself — and they're in every municipal water supply.
When chlorine reacts with naturally occurring organic matter in water, it creates a family of chemical compounds called disinfection byproducts. These include trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids — compounds that the EPA regulates because of their links to skin inflammation, hormone disruption, and long-term health risks with repeated exposure.
They're not contaminants from an industrial spill. They're formed in the treatment process designed to make your water safe. Filterbaby removes them before they reach your skin.
Microplastics have been detected in human blood, breast milk, and lung tissue. Your shower is one of the primary ways they enter your body.
Microplastics are fragments shed from plastics as they break down — in pipes, in packaging, in the environment. They pass through most standard water treatment systems because they're too small to catch. Once in your shower water, they land on your skin with every rinse, and emerging research suggests they can be absorbed transdermally.
PFAS — sometimes called "forever chemicals" — are a related class of industrial compounds found in non-stick coatings, firefighting foam, and manufacturing byproducts. They don't break down in the environment or in your body. Filterbaby's filtration removes both microplastics and PFAS at up to 99.96% efficiency.
The Filterbaby Skincare Faucet Filter is NSF-177 certified for chlorine reduction in shower applications — the foundational independent benchmark for skin-grade water filtration.
Filterbaby Shower Filters are the only American Hair Loss Association approved shower filters (2026) — the first and only filtration system recognized for hair-loss-relevant water quality standards.
All performance data on this page comes from independent lab testing, not internal claims. The raw data is available for download below.
U.S. municipal tap water legally contains six classes of contaminants: halogens and disinfection byproducts (chlorine, chloramine, trihalomethanes), heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium), microplastics and PFAS, volatile organic compounds (benzene, TCE, toluene), pesticides and herbicides (atrazine, glyphosate), and trace microbiological contaminants. The EPA regulates over 90 contaminants under the Safe Drinking Water Act — but legal limits are not zero. Filterbaby removes up to 99.9% of every contaminant on this page, verified by independent third-party lab testing.**
All removal claims 3rd-party lab certified when used and replaced as directed. ±6% efficacy fluctuation from lab certified testing.** Microbiological reduction not yet certified to NSF P231 standards.
We commissioned an independent skin cell study to measure what actually happens when you remove chlorine and chemical contaminants from shower water. Here's what 30 days of filtered water produced.
The study exposed identical skin cell cultures to two conditions: water with standard municipal chlorine levels, and Filterbaby-filtered water. The cells in filtered water didn't just look different — they performed measurably better on every clinical marker we tested.
Cell proliferation increased 20.61%. That means your skin is actively generating new, healthy cells faster when it's not fighting chemical stress from your shower water.
Moisture retention improved 69.1%. The skin barrier — the thin layer of oils and proteins that keeps your skin hydrated — stays intact when chlorine isn't stripping it away with every shower.
And wound healing speed increased 126.5%. When your skin barrier is intact and your cells are regenerating faster, your skin's natural repair process accelerates. Cuts, blemishes, and inflammation resolve faster.
Beyond the cell study, we tracked 160 real users over a 30-day period. These are the outcomes they reported after switching to Filterbaby-filtered shower water.
These aren't anecdotes. They're tracked outcomes from a structured user study. The mechanism is consistent with the cell study: remove the chemical stressors, and your skin does what it was designed to do.
Most skincare addresses symptoms. Filterbaby addresses the source. Cleaner water is the foundation — everything else works better on top of it.
* 3rd-party certified in-vitro study of Filterbaby Skincare Faucet Filter (In-Vitro Test N2 '25). Performed in triplicate.
** All filtration removal claims: 3rd-party lab certified. When used and replaced as directed. ±6% efficacy fluctuation from lab certified testing. Filterbaby Skincare Faucet Filter is NSF-177 certified.
Individual experiences and results may vary. This page is provided as an educational reference; it is not medical advice.
