The Scary Facts About Hot Shower Did you know that if you put your fingers into a glass of tap water for 15 seconds, you will absorb over 80% of the chlorine into your body ?! Your body is the largest organ and it acts as a ‘sponge’ to absorb the invisible hazardous & carcinogenic chlorine! Fact 1 You absorb 12 TIMES more chlorine in a HOT shower than drinking chlorinated tap water ?! Shower steam in your bathroom can contain up to 100 times the amount of chlorine than in the water! Fact 2 Chlorine is a known carcinogen. Women suffering from breast cancer are found to have 50-60% more chlorine in the breast tissues! Fact 3 Chemicals in showering water vaporize at a much faster rate than the actual water. Hence, it is quickly inhaled into the body through respiration. Inhaled chemicals such as chloroform and trihalomethane make their way into the bloodstream much faster than ingested chemicals !!! Fact 4 Chlorinated showeri