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Topic: To get chlorine out of bath water use

Marnie
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Use vitamin C powder - about 2 to 4 grams per bath - to remove the chlorine from the bath water.

http://www.healthegoods.com/natural-health-podcasts/mthfr-mutation-in-9-year-old-boy-dr-ben-consult.html

500mg x4 = 2000mg =2 grams

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Lauralyme
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Wow Thanks!
How timely as I was about to research how to get the chlorine out of my bathing suit

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poppy
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How does this work? Why would Vitamin C remove chlorine?

Hoping it would work because using my shower filter to fill the bathtub isn't the best solution.

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Catgirl
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Right on Marnie! You just connected a big piece of the puzzle for me. [Smile]

[ 07-08-2012, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: Catgirl ]

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Marnie
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Here is the chemistry:

http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/html/05231301/05231301.html

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poppy
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.

Seems that ascorbic acid will lower the pH, while sodium ascorbate will not. Don't know if it might be harder to obtain the latter, but maybe the small volume in a bathtub might make this moot point.

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tickle
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Looks like they're saying one gram is enough?

" One gram of ascorbic acid will neutralize 1 milligram per liter of chlorine per 100 gallons of water. "

Great information, thanks!

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Lauralyme
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Would it react with epsom salts?

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Marnie
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I don't know...very interesting question!

Get the chlorine out first then add the E.S.?

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sixgoofykids
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We have a whole house water filter that removes chlorine. We still have a water purfier for drinking water, but I'm happy to have the cholorine removed from our showers.

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Energy2Heal
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FYI - Many municipalities around the country have switched from chlorine to chloramine for disinfecting the water piped to your home.

Chloromine is a combination of chlorine and ammonia.

it is really bad for many reasons, only two of which are:

- Unlike chlorine, chloramine is very difficult to remove from the water
- Chloramine does not disinfect the water as well as chlorine

You should check and find out what your local municipality is using.

Much more info here:

http://www.chloramine.org/chloraminefacts.htm

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MichaelTampa
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Sodium ascorbate is readily available from iherb (and the like, I imagine). I used NOW brand.

I add the sodium ascorbate to the water as it goes in our drinking water filter, which doesn't handle chloramine, and we also have a vit-C shower filter before it goes to the non-vit-C shower filter.

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Marnie
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Bb needs Na (sodium) Cl (chloride) for motility.

The Na and Cl channels are "open".

Hence Frontline which blocks chloride channels IN THE TICK to destroy Bb before the tick can infect our dogs.

And Tamoxifen- a man-made PKC inhibitor that also blocks chloride channels.

Bb's "fav" is Na. It is not particularly fond of K, Ca or Mg.

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