Are you breathing more chlorine than you need to?

If you care about what’s in your tap water, you probably think about drinking it. Filters on the fridge. Bottles. Maybe a pitcher.

The shower doesn’t get the same attention. It should.

City water is chlorinated on purpose so it stays safe from bacteria. That’s good. The catch is that a hot shower puts you in contact with that same chemistry for a lot longer than a glass of water — on your skin, in your hair, and in the air you’re breathing while you stand there.

Researchers have looked at this for years. When chlorinated water heats up, some of that chemistry (including disinfection byproducts) can leave the water and enter the bathroom air. You don’t need a panic spiral about it. You do need an honest picture: showering is an exposure route, not just a rinse.

So what do you actually do?

You can take shorter or cooler showers. You can run a fan. Or you can filter the water at the shower so there’s less chlorine in the stream to begin with.

That’s what Orra is for. It won’t purify your whole house. It won’t soften hard water. It reduces chlorine in the shower you already take every day — which is the simplest place most people can cut unnecessary exposure.

If the bathroom smells like a pool when you’re done, start there. That’s your nose telling you something is in the air.