How AQVO Shower Filter Works
What's actually in your shower water — and how AQVO filters it
In a hot shower, chlorine doesn't just stay in the water. Heat turns it into a vapour you breathe in — and warm water opens your pores to it. The SF002 cartridge reduces it before it reaches you.
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The problem
Treated water keeps you safe — but it isn't built for your skin
Chlorine taste & smell
Mains water is chlorinated to keep it safe to drink. Heat releases that chlorine as a vapour — the faint "pool" smell you notice in a hot shower, and breathe straight in.
Dry skin & hair
Chlorine strips the natural oils that keep skin and hair supple. Over time that can leave skin feeling tight or itchy and hair feeling coarse after every wash.
Sediment & rust
Older pipes and ageing infrastructure — common in rentals and established suburbs — can carry fine sediment and rust particles you'd rather not rinse through your hair.
What's inside the cartridge
Two media, one job each
The SF002 cartridge is a measured blend. Most of it does the filtering; the rest is there for how the water feels.
Dechlorination media
Reduces up to 98% of free chlorine as water passes through (based on supplier testing) — the measurable job of the filter.
Mineral & tourmaline balls
Tourmaline, mineralised and far-infrared media. We market these as a water-feel blend — not as a health claim.
The honest bit
We tell you what the filter does — and what it doesn't.
Our filter is highly effective on free chlorine — up to 98% based on supplier testing; real-world results vary with water chemistry, temperature, flow rate and cartridge age. It's less effective on chloramine, and we don't make health claims for the mineral media. Straight answers, no overclaiming.
Specs
*Based on supplier testing. Real-world results vary with water chemistry, temperature, flow rate and cartridge age.
Engineered by people who actually know water
Chartered process engineering, applied to the water you shower in every day.
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