The Chemicals Your Skin Drinks | Really Clean Water Technologies

The science your water company won't tell you

The chemicals
your skin drinks.

Every shower, every bath, every hand wash — your family absorbs endocrine-disrupting chemicals directly through the skin and into the bloodstream. The CHLORAMAX® and G5002 work together to stop them.

What's really in
American tap water.

Federal limits haven't been updated in decades. Legal doesn't mean safe.

143M
Americans exposed to PFAS
Only 6 of 14,000+ types regulated by EPA
250M
Exposed to hexavalent chromium
No binding federal limit exists
700+
Disinfection byproducts found
Only 11 are federally regulated
3M
Served water above safe atrazine limits
Banned in Europe, legal in the U.S.
100%
BPA detection rate
Found in every sample in some studies
11
Compounds found repeatedly
In water serving 28 million people

Sources: EWG Tap Water Database · EPA · Environmental Science & Technology · The New Lede (2025)

Your skin absorbs more
than you think.

Chemicals absorbed through skin bypass the liver and enter the bloodstream in their most active form. Studies prove showering delivers higher doses than drinking.

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Skin exposure
20–40 gal

of water touches your skin daily through showers, baths, hand washing, and laundry.

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Drinking
~0.5 gal

of water is consumed as drinking water. Your liver partially filters ingested chemicals first.

Blood trihalomethane levels increased by 57 to 358 pg/mL after showering and bathing — far exceeding increases from drinking the same water.

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005 · PMC1257647

Two threats.
Two solutions.

Different chemicals enter your body through different routes. The CHLORAMAX® protects your skin. The G5002 protects what you drink.

Skin absorption

CHLORAMAX®
Whole House Filtration

Installed at your point of entry. Treats every drop before it reaches any tap, shower, or appliance in your home.

Trihalomethanes (THMs)
Chlorine & chloramine
BPA & phthalates
Atrazine & pesticides
VOCs & odors
Hard water scale
Ingestion

G5002
Reverse Osmosis with Remineralization

Under your kitchen sink. Ultra-fine membrane filtration for the water you drink and cook with, plus certified remineralization.

PFAS (all 14,000+ types)
Sodium (from softener)
Fluoride & nitrates
Arsenic, lead, chromium
Drug residues & hormones
Adds back calcium & magnesium

Pitcher filters are
not a solution.

A carbon filter on one faucet leaves your family's skin completely unprotected — and can't remove the most dangerous drinking water contaminants either.

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Can't protect your skin

Does nothing about the 20-40 gallons of water your skin touches daily through showers, baths, and hand washing.

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Can't remove PFAS

Carbon catches some, but misses short-chain forever chemicals. Only reverse osmosis handles the full spectrum.

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Can't remove sodium

If you have a water softener, the sodium it adds passes right through carbon. Only RO removes it.

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Can't remove fluoride

Activated carbon has zero effect on fluoride levels in your water.

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Can't remove nitrates

Agricultural runoff chemicals pass right through carbon filters.

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Can't remove heavy metals

Arsenic, lead, and hexavalent chromium require reverse osmosis or specialized media.

The sodium problem.

A water softener protects your home from hard water scale — but it replaces calcium and magnesium with sodium. Here's why that matters.

STEP 01

Carbon Filter

The CHLORAMAX® removes chlorine, THMs, VOCs, pesticides, and other chemicals from every tap in your home.

STEP 02

Water Softener

Removes calcium & magnesium (hardness) to protect your pipes, appliances, skin, and hair — but replaces them with sodium ions.

STEP 03

G5002 Reverse Osmosis

The only home filtration that reliably removes sodium — and adds healthy calcium and magnesium back.

A typical softener adds ~30 mg of sodium per glass. Carbon filters leave 100% of it.

Take control of your
family's water.

You can't control the treatment plant. You can't control the pipes. But you can control what happens once the water crosses your front door.

Sources

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) — ED Assessment List, Oct 2024

Environmental Working Group — Tap Water Database

U.S. EPA — PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, Apr 2024

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005 — PMC1257669, PMC1257647

Benotti et al. — Environmental Science & Technology, 2009

Lin et al. — Dermatitis, 2024

Kitagawa — Journal of Health Science, 2017

WHO — Nutrients in Drinking Water, 2005

WHO — Calcium & Magnesium in Drinking-water, 2009

Dharmaratne — Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023

The New Lede — U.S. drinking water contamination report, Feb 2025

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