Calcium sulfite
Chlorine & chloramine
Neutralizes chlorine and chloramines at full shower temperature, where cheap carbon gives up within weeks. This is the medium almost no filter on the shelf includes.
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Skin Barrier Shower Filter
- Removes triggers for post-shower flare-ups
- Filters the chlorine that strips your barrier
- Neutralizes heavy metals that irritate your skin
- Less itching and redness after just one shower
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$49.99
$149.00
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Included free with your order
3 month filter cartridgeFree $35
Free shippingFree $9.95
100 day guaranteeFree $19.99
How do I install it?
Unscrew your old shower head by hand, counterclockwise. Wrap the thread with the tape in the box. Screw this head on until it is hand tight. Run the water for 30 seconds to flush the cartridge. Fits every standard half inch shower arm. No tools, no drilling, nothing permanent. If you rent, put your old head back on the day you move out.
Will this actually help reactive skin?
Warm water opens your pores, and that is the exact moment your skin meets chlorine, chloramines and whatever your pipes are shedding. Chlorine is a solvent. It dissolves fat. Your skin barrier is a fat layer. Skin that rebuilds that layer within hours is fine. Skin that does not get there before the next shower is why a cream worked for a week and then stopped. This removes the irritant before it reaches you.
Will it kill my water pressure?
No. This is a shower head with filtration built into the housing, not a puck you stack between the arm and your old head. Stacked filters cause the pressure drop people complain about. Most people say the spray feels slightly softer and more even.
I tried a shower filter before and it did nothing
You had the right idea and the wrong device. Almost every filter under forty dollars is single stage activated carbon. Carbon works on chlorine at cold temperatures and loses most of its effect at shower heat, usually within weeks, without any signal that it stopped. It also does nothing for chloramines or heavy metals.
What is the 100 day guarantee?
Use it for 100 days. Run a full cartridge through it. If your skin is no calmer, email us and you get your money back. No form, no explanation, no original packaging.
In the water, not in a cream
A shower filter built for the morning you already have.
ChlorineStrips the oil layer overnight skin made
ChloramineThe one cheap carbon cartridges miss
MetalsCopper and nickel off aging pipes
pH swingHard water sits well above skin’s 5
Those four are why a $25 puck feels like nothing. We are not pasting another store’s survey on this page.
What is in your shower water
Five irritants. Every single morning.
- 01
Chlorine & THMs
A solvent added to nearly all US tap water. It dissolves the lipid layer your barrier is made of, at exactly the moment your pores are open.
- 02
Chloramine
Chlorine bound to ammonia. More stable, harder to remove, completely untouched by cheap carbon filters.
- 03
Limescale
Hard water minerals stop soap from rinsing away cleanly. What is left behind keeps working on your skin long after you have towelled off.
- 04
Lead, copper, nickel
Leaching out of aging pipes on the way to your shower head. Nickel is a documented contact irritant for reactive skin.
- 05
pH imbalance
Your acid mantle sits around pH 5. Hard, chlorinated water runs well above that and pushes it out of range every time.
The mechanism
Four media. Four different things in your water.
A filter is only as good as what is packed inside it. These four were chosen for skin, not for hair, and each one handles something the others cannot. Every drop passes through all four before it reaches you.
Vitamin C beads
Chloramine, fast
Ascorbic acid is the fastest thing there is at taking chloramine apart, and speed is the whole game in a shower, because the water is inside the cartridge for about a second.
KDF-55
Metals
A copper zinc medium that captures copper and nickel coming off aging supply lines, and keeps the carbon from turning into a bacterial bed inside the cartridge.
Activated coconut carbon
Polish
Takes out residual taste, odor and organic compounds the other three leave behind. Coconut shell has a finer pore structure than the coal carbon in budget cartridges.
How we compare
A cheap filter addresses 1 of 3 irritants.
Cheap filterHome softenerThis head
Chlorine at shower temp—✓✓
Chloramines——✓
Built for reactive skin——✓
Works if you rent✓—✓
Price$25–40$1,500+$49.99
What to expect
Give it more than one shower.
- Day one
The shower itself feels different. Less of the tight, squeaking feeling when you towel off.
- Week two
The post-shower flare gets smaller. The window between stepping out and reaching for the cream stops being the worst part of the morning.
- Week four
Your moisturizer starts holding. Nothing about the cream changed. It is finally landing on a barrier that was not stripped five minutes earlier.
- Week twelve
You stop thinking about it as often. Fewer mornings that start with checking your arm.
Reviews
We will put real ones here. Not someone else’s.
The page we cloned fills this block with written testimonials. Those are not our customers. This slot stays empty until we have our own.
Judge it on your own skin, not on a claim.
Install it, shower with it, run a full cartridge through it. If your skin is no calmer at the end of 100 days, email us and we send your money back. No form, no explanation, no original packaging required.
FAQ
You have questions.
Will this fit my shower?
If your shower head screws onto an arm coming out of the wall, yes. That is a standard half inch connection and almost every North American home and apartment uses it. It does not fit ceiling mounted rain heads or handheld hose setups without an adapter.
How often do I replace the cartridge?
About every 3 months, sooner with several people showering daily or unusually hard water. Your first one is included. Replacements you order when you want one.
Does it soften the water?
No, and anyone telling you a shower head softens water is not being straight with you. Softening needs ion exchange and a tank. This reduces chlorine, chloramines, heavy metals and particles. For reactive skin those are the irritants that matter. The chlorine is the offender, not the minerals.
Can I use it if my child has reactive skin?
It filters the water for everyone using that shower. Nothing is applied to skin and there is nothing to dose. If a child is under the care of a dermatologist, this does not replace anything they have prescribed.
Is there a subscription?
No. This is the most common complaint in the category and we are not doing it. You buy the filter once and reorder cartridges when you want them. Nothing auto renews.
How do I return it?
Email us within 100 days of delivery and we send return instructions. You do not need the original box and you do not need to explain why.