AquaBliss High Output Revitalizing Shower Filter - Reduces Dry Itchy Skin, Dandruff, Eczema, and Dramatically Improves The Condition of Your Skin, Hair and Nails - Brushed Nickel (SF100-BN)

I’ll update my review as I’ve only used the filter twice now.I’ve been having skin problems for months ever since I moved. The picture I posted is pre-filter and if my skin clears up I’ll be posting a post-filter pic.It burns and itches badly but burns more. Found out river I live on has had chemical leaks(one of which was 56 million gallons of phosphoric acid and 350 tons of nitrogen killing millions of fish, fish, alligators, general life in water, and 377 acres of shrubbery and trees) we’ve had more spills since.Installed filter, first thing I did notice is my hair. Pre filter, I started noticing my hair was just like not even cleaning right. The oil wouldn’t wash out, I saw dirt along my hair line, my scalp was oily and waxy and very itchy and burned badly. Shampoo stopped lathering altogether. I was literally washing my hair six times per shower with a hair massager and still had oil in it. I don’t use hair products so no build up of those. But hair still weighed down, was dull and very frizzy and tangled.Post filter, first shower, my hair actually lathered 2nd go and 2nd shower, it lathered first go, oily was going down on my scalp. Black stuff fell out of my hair and a few dead bugs when I had taken a shower that day already (in non filter) so it def was not washing anything out. My hair is soft. That’s saying something since my hair has never exactly been soft as it’s been bleached a million times. My hair IS damaged but the decrease in frizz post-filer is CRAZY. It doesn’t look so dull. It’s not weighed down- act weird how light it feels, giving it more volume. Not as tangled and can brush it way easier now. Scalp itching is decreasing, burning is gone.Skin-too soon to say I THINK it’s helping but I’ve also been using steroids on it out of desperation. As said, I’ll update. It’s still a little itchy but that could be from touching the sink water. I think the waxy-ness texture is going down a little. And seems to be less inflammation.The shower does burn a little but it may just be my skin healing. It burns to put aloe Vera on as well but only cuz the aloe Vera helps. But if my hair was that bad, I prolly had/have mad build up on my skin and not even getting into the clothes which I have to go thru and rewash…Edit: about a quarter of the rash is very very faded and unnoticeable. I’m still very weary of skin products as before almost everything made my face worse. I’m guessing it wasn’t washing off my skin. Waxyness is gone. Every other day I use a moisturizer which at first makes it very noticeable but by the next day looks way better. I’ll take a pic when it’s a bit more faded. Our water was 100% messing my skin and hair and even eyelids up.Hair looks way blonder. Possible bleach residue left behind before I guess maybe. Only 5ish days in and everything is slowly getting better. It was getting out of hand. Crazy water can mess your skin and hair up so bad. Oh. Also nails are Way less brittle. They were clear at the top and would come off. Now they’re hard and mostly white at the top. Nvr knew it was affecting my nails.Update: okay guys. This water filter helped my hair and nails. However, it looks like I have full body chronic focullitis. Biopsy confirmed today. Skin usually way worse than the pic.But I did notice the difference between the waters. Unfiltered water didn’t clean well. Even tho waxy skin and hair build up is prolly due to the infection, the hard water is wasn’t rinsing everything out so I had mad buildup on skin/hair making it worse. Kind of a cycle. What I can say for now is get this filter and use cool/cold water. It makes hair shiny and nails healthy/whiter. Hair been looking shiny again. Too bad ima have to dry the hell outta it again getting rid of this. Can’t wait to use the filter post-hair follicular infection.Update: still dealing with infection. Doing better w antibiotic. But now that I switched back to a shampoo that’s not so drying, I figured I’d post this pic. Can see the difference in my hair.

My hair is curly and comes with all the issues curly hair can have, but I've always taken good care of it and never had breakage issues, even when I went from my nautural dark brunette color to blonde during the pandemic. In the past 6 months or so, I noticed my hair becoming incredibly brittle and breaking off without tension on it. I figured it was the formerly bleached ends finally giving up on life. Then, I did the math. Nope. I stopped bleaching my fairly short hair in August 2022. That damage should be long gone (grown out and cut off). I upgraded to Pureology's NanoGold shampoo and conditioner, which certainly helped, but I still had too much breakage. Then, a friend in my building mentioned she was having issues, too, and was going to get a filter for her shower. Great idea! So I bought this one. Within two shampoos, most of the breakage is gone. If the breakage was at a 8 out of 10 before, it's now at a 3 out of 10 after only two shampoos!I've also been having issues with blemishes recently, which is a first. I didn't even get zits as a teenager! I've been using sulphur soap, which helped a ton, but my skin is looking even better after using the filter for only a week.And here I was the past 6 months thinking I was perimenopausal super early when it was just the nasty tap water (either in my city or the old building I live in). 🙄I highly recommend this filter if you're having issues with your hair or skin. It's not expensive, it's easy to install, and it delivers.Oh, and it has not impacted the water pressure of my beloved shower head. Still spraying strong!

The filtration aspect works well. Our water where I live has become noticeably more hard in the last year with mineral deposits leaving a film on things like the chrome handle and escutcheon for the shower valve and in a way that is no longer easy to clean. The residue is thick and crystallized on these chrome parts and feels sharp, but strangely on the “rubbed bronze” shower head we have the hose casing is coated in the same mineral deposits but it is like a powdery texture that comes off but only with a fine edge like the back of a box cutter razor blade or a finger nail. As you can imagine, this level of water hardness has been wreaking havoc on my skin, so much so that I was dreading having to take showers because of how badly the high concentration of minerals and chlorine in our city water strips my body of oil and dries out my skin to the point that I feel like a Stone Man from GOT. One day it was so bad I used ~ 6 fl.oz of standard Eucerin lotion just to take the edge off of how profoundly itchy my skin had become after a shower, and for weeks after my skin has yet to fully recover and this amount of body lotion use is just not sustainable, so I looked into it and learned about these shower supply filters that have become disturbingly mainstream in the last 5 years or so, and for the price it was well worth giving this filter a try. Day one was a night/day difference. I had slowly become so accustomed to how terrible our water is that the now filtered water actually FEELS different in the shower!! It’s silky smooth and just feels like you’re being spoiled. So for its purpose, this filter does its job 5/5 stars.The design earns it 4/5, and here is why. American pipe thread is tapered. The standard shower nipple elbow is 1/2” NPT (national pipe thread) and both sides are male threads. None of the female threads on the filter or its included extensions are NPT so what you get is a less than ideal seal. The kit comes with 6 screened washers, and I used 5 of them to make this thing work. When I tightened the filter directly to the 1/2” NPT elbow coming out of my shower wall, the female threads of the filter got all galled up. The only way I could make it work was to use an extension, install that alone to the pipe with screen washer and plenty of teflon tape (did plumbing for 4 years so I do know how to correctly use PTFE tape) then screw that filter onto the installed extension with another screen washer, then finish connecting the shower head and all. At least one extension and the input side of the filter should be 1/2” NPT rather than having straight threads and relying on PTFE tape and a rubber washer to hold it all together.I cannot speak to longevity but I hope it lasts at least 4 months. Durability is a 3/5. If it were a metal housing it would be too heavy, which brings my next point— this effectively doubles your leverage on the 1/2” elbow coming out of your wall, so be extra cautious when handling the shower head or handheld.Water pressure is unchanged 5/5 there. There’s a GE filter out there comes in chrome, don’t bother. This AquaBliss filter is less prone to leaks and that GE one cuts pressure by at least half