@Narwalt@Potatoboy I don’t claim to be an expert and this isn’t woo, but I know that minerals are also used to soften water. So I’m not convinced that the device would make the water “harder”.
@Narwalt@Potatoboy
Also, they use plenty of chlorine where I live and I’d rather take my chances running the water through some salts than put up with any more of that than I have to. For $5, I’m willing to give it a shot.
@Narwalt I prefer Los Angeles hard water. Whenever I clean with soft water, I feel slimy. I also heard that hard water is better(?) for your skin, but I don’t really know. Bad for the pipes but good for humans. I’ll let people that know more than me chime in.
/showme Human showering in slurm drink from Futurama.
@joelmw@Narwalt@Potatoboy One of the “stones” is calcium sulfite. Calcium sulfite is easily oxidized to calcium sulfate, a.k.a. gypsum, which usually will have little effect on pH level, but will contribute to mineral scale buildup where it dries. I’d be more worried about the probability that the presumably-disposable plastic mineral cartridge would degrade and crack with time in service. My snake oil detector was activated by the fact that they claim that the “tourmaline stones” are absorbing nasty unspecified stuff, so this is an easy hard pass for me.
@cfg83@Narwalt you heard wrong. Flaky dry skin is not better for you or your skin. Or your hair. I just put in a water softener and I’m loving feeling like I’ve showered with water instead of sand. Same with drinking the stuff.
@cfg83@michellea@Narwalt 100% Where I live the tap water is supposedly fine to drink (I don’t trust anybody at this point), but I can legitimately feel the irritation in my throat when I drink it. Finally broke down and got a Brita.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’ve come to the conclusion that hard water is the root cause of a huge number of problems that most Modernites™ don’t even realize. One day after getting especially pissed about how much time I spend dissolving mineral deposits & maintaining fixtures, coffee makers, automatic water bowls, showerheads, etc. (btw I stumbled upon a product called Durgol awhile back, I’ll never buy anything else) I started doing research into how hard water impacted daily life in pre-softener times, like during westward expansion. Apparently settlers said “fuck this” (I guess they bitched about hard water a lot in their journals & diaries) and just collected naturally soft rainwater in barrels to use for everything except drinking & cooking because they didn’t have the supplies to spare trying to make hard water viable for things like cleaning.
All you have to do is think about it for like 5 minutes and the proposition that “hard water is just Mother Nature’s immune response to industrialization” starts to seem increasingly plausible. Wish I’d gotten obsessed with this sooner so I could’ve gotten Kaczynski to sign off on the idea, thereby providing sufficient motivation to write a cosmic horror short story about hard water in the form of an unhinged manifesto. I guess I could always lie. ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ
The last bit of the writeup was a trifle prophetic; not too long after the rollover, a drive-by spammer dumped a bunch of ads for vacation packages in SE Asia. They were swiftly pounced upon by our diligent mods.
@sfwineguy “deliver a strong, consistent water flow—even in low-pressure homes”
It’ll be fine… for only a Fin.
Put it in a large vase of flowers for interesting contrast.
@davidgro Me too. I have a well and it’s way too minerally already. I could have used this 5 years ago when I was living someplace where I swear you turned on the shower and it smelled like a municipal pool. So much chlorine… .
Presumably, anyone buying this item already has a shower head that’s on the end of a hose, with 1/2"npt male threads. Otherwise, it’s going to point in a really useless or even counterproductive direction.
Got one if these for the high pressure years ago. It works. But it mists so much that even with the bathroom fan going the smoke alarm would go off and water would drip from the ceiling
@Fuzzalini@TheMan876
Less than 10 min shower??? That’s not even possible, I’ve literally been trying for years and it’s a no go. I don’t understand how people say they take a 3 min shower and brush their teeth while in the shower? Did you even put soap on your body?
@Star2236@TheMan876 That’s not really true. I have long hair and with shampoo and waiting for the conditioner to sink in, it’s probably closer to 15 minutes. But I have never brushed my teeth in the shower in my entire life.
@RevRagnarok Back during our first vacation trip by car through southern Arizona, I suggested looking for a real rock shop in the next town. We found one. Off the beaten path, 0% woo, with some really interesting stuff. Score!
@RevRagnarok
Please explain to me the woo of rock shops as I’m a rock person. I think in another life I might have been a geologist right next to your wife.
@werehatrack Sounds cool we went there 20 years ago for our honeymoon. If you ever find the name lemme know hoping to drag the kids out there this summer.
@cfg83@mediocrebot@mycya4me I have a cat who’d walk in the bathtub when I was taking a shower or bath. Likely if I had had a pool, stream or pond he would have gone swimming (of course there is the one who goes nuts and runs away even if a tiny drop of water gets on her from my wet hands).
@cfg83@Kidsandliz@mediocrebot That is my Male rescue cat. You can pretend to flick water at him, well that cat is Zooming away like it was stuck by lighting! Yes 1 drop of water scares him!
@user27549550 Not to mention if it filters out bad stuff eventually that filter is going to have to be changed. Hmm someone above mentioned someone bought 6. Maybe that is why.
where do I get new tourmaline stones, calcium sulfite stones, and “main” (copy editor? no??) stones? Or just toss it into the landfill to deposit all that ‘bad stuff’ removed from my shower water? Better buy six.
Also, WHERE is the RFK Jr. endorsement?
@JohnQ118 probably best to skip the tourmaline, considering how often it is radioactive, thanks to the common inclusion of uranium and thorium…
It’s not especially dangerous unless the concentration of radioactive are extraordinarily high, but the one thing you do not want to do with an alpha emitter is ingest it…
/showme jaba1337 showering, fully dressed in meh.com regalia, using a Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head that is filled with baked beans instead of stones.
@jo2y
/showme the forum user named jaba1337 showering, fully dressed in meh dot com regalia, using a Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head that is filled with baked beans instead of stones.
I love you guys, perfect timing, thank you, I will get six I use these shower head for many many years I remember I pay $19.99 till my last one 6 months ago $25, well guys guess what, I have a little tool to check my water and yes this lovely shower head that’s the trick!!! guys… I love you,… I love you, I love you.
Nilda
I get a free shower head from my energy company every year as an “energy savings pack” I’m not sure how giving away free shower heads every single year is energy saving considering the energy it takes to produce, package, mail, and dispose of one every year… but it’s cheaper than $5 to me. So pass
So… how long are those mineral beads supposed to last? Also, how often do you need to clean them so the inside of your clear shower head doesn’t look like a mildewy mess?
if you plant the beans inside of this shower head, they grow into a shower bush, which is highly invasive and illegal to possess in many southern states. check your local laws.
I’ve had a StoneShower (the name brand version of this) for a few years and I absolutely love it. Does it soften the water? Hell if I know, I have a big ol’ house-wide system that has me buying big ol’ bags of salt.
what I do love is the pressurized stream/myst of water. I bought one of these to put in my guest bathroom.
To be honest, it’s my grandmother’s favorite. I still remembered ：the very same type of spray nozzle that my grandmother used during my childhood has now become overgrown with microorganisms—specifically, green moss.
Received. You get what you pay for. Garbage. Right in the trash, doesn’t fit in the existing shower head holder which is a pretty common one, and it leaks like a sieve, the hoses that come with most of these handhelds have deeper connection points so you would have to come up with some sort of a thicker gasket because this doesn’t come with any.
Snake oil aside, this shower head actually produces a decent amount of pressure and seems easy to clean. I’ll likely take it on travels just in case the hotel room shower head is ass.
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Product: Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head
Model: PB830
Condition: New
What’s Included?
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$29.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
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Someone please tell me a real non woo reason why I would want to ADD hardness to my shower water.
@Narwalt Do you have a strange desire to make yourself itchy? If not then I’ve got nothing else.
@Narwalt @Potatoboy Fact: dry skin feels cleaner. Moist skin feels slimy and greasy.
@Narwalt @Potatoboy and there’s always the need for more stones
@Narwalt @Potatoboy I don’t claim to be an expert and this isn’t woo, but I know that minerals are also used to soften water. So I’m not convinced that the device would make the water “harder”.
@Narwalt @Potatoboy
Also, they use plenty of chlorine where I live and I’d rather take my chances running the water through some salts than put up with any more of that than I have to. For $5, I’m willing to give it a shot.
@Narwalt I prefer Los Angeles hard water. Whenever I clean with soft water, I feel slimy. I also heard that hard water is better(?) for your skin, but I don’t really know. Bad for the pipes but good for humans. I’ll let people that know more than me chime in.
/showme Human showering in slurm drink from Futurama.
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@joelmw @Narwalt @Potatoboy One of the “stones” is calcium sulfite. Calcium sulfite is easily oxidized to calcium sulfate, a.k.a. gypsum, which usually will have little effect on pH level, but will contribute to mineral scale buildup where it dries. I’d be more worried about the probability that the presumably-disposable plastic mineral cartridge would degrade and crack with time in service. My snake oil detector was activated by the fact that they claim that the “tourmaline stones” are absorbing nasty unspecified stuff, so this is an easy hard pass for me.
@Narwalt often woter softener systems “soften” the water too much which is not great for taking a shower. You feel like you never get a good rinse.
I am guessing I that situation, this would add some desirable hardness back in at the end of the water path where it won’t create buildup in pipes.
@Narwalt @ohhwell until the ‘stones’ are depleted. and that’d be pretty quick I think.
@cfg83 @Narwalt you heard wrong. Flaky dry skin is not better for you or your skin. Or your hair. I just put in a water softener and I’m loving feeling like I’ve showered with water instead of sand. Same with drinking the stuff.
@JohnQ118 @Narwalt not looking to debate the efficacy of the device. I made no claims.
@cfg83 @michellea @Narwalt 100% Where I live the tap water is supposedly fine to drink (I don’t trust anybody at this point), but I can legitimately feel the irritation in my throat when I drink it. Finally broke down and got a Brita.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’ve come to the conclusion that hard water is the root cause of a huge number of problems that most Modernites™ don’t even realize. One day after getting especially pissed about how much time I spend dissolving mineral deposits & maintaining fixtures, coffee makers, automatic water bowls, showerheads, etc. (btw I stumbled upon a product called Durgol awhile back, I’ll never buy anything else) I started doing research into how hard water impacted daily life in pre-softener times, like during westward expansion. Apparently settlers said “fuck this” (I guess they bitched about hard water a lot in their journals & diaries) and just collected naturally soft rainwater in barrels to use for everything except drinking & cooking because they didn’t have the supplies to spare trying to make hard water viable for things like cleaning.
All you have to do is think about it for like 5 minutes and the proposition that “hard water is just Mother Nature’s immune response to industrialization” starts to seem increasingly plausible. Wish I’d gotten obsessed with this sooner so I could’ve gotten Kaczynski to sign off on the idea, thereby providing sufficient motivation to write a cosmic horror short story about hard water in the form of an unhinged manifesto. I guess I could always lie. ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ
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@jouest meh showers rock?
@jouest @Trinityscrew Or maybe “Meh showers stoned.”
@jouest @Trinityscrew @werehatrack
I like that one better
@jouest A new badge!
Also, nice to see you again!
@Kyeh oh dang. new indeed.
(and hello thanks. have been deep in the Hammacher mines for a while
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@jouest I liked the flask better. 🫤
Are you no longer allowed out of the Hammacher mines to goof around with us here?
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Why is there kitty kibble in the pipe?
I can see teenage brothers putting dye in this before their sister takes a shower. That or garlic. Prankalicious!
Pemoving chlorine and minerzlizing water is exactly what I need in a shower head.
@ArrakeenMentat Typolicious! Typotastic!
@ArrakeenMentat @werehatrack Plus it’s anti-bactrial.
@ArrakeenMentat @Kyeh @werehatrack It gets rid of Bactrian camels??
@ArrakeenMentat @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack Yeah, we only allow dromedaries around here.
The last bit of the writeup was a trifle prophetic; not too long after the rollover, a drive-by spammer dumped a bunch of ads for vacation packages in SE Asia. They were swiftly pounced upon by our diligent mods.
Wow, what’s next, one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Jade Eggs”? A rock for your soft place?
Pure Grade A snake oil for only $5? I’m in.
I don’t care what kind of rocks it has, if you’re not willing to tell me how many gallons per minute it flows, it’s not buyable.
@sfwineguy “deliver a strong, consistent water flow—even in low-pressure homes”
It’ll be fine… for only a Fin.
Put it in a large vase of flowers for interesting contrast.
No sale, my water has way too much mineral in it already.
@davidgro Me too. I have a well and it’s way too minerally already. I could have used this 5 years ago when I was living someplace where I swear you turned on the shower and it smelled like a municipal pool. So much chlorine… .
/showme person about to step into a shower that sprays walnut shell media, photorealistic
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I want to meet whoever is buying 6 of these. Actually, maybe I don’t.
@rickjennings64 my guess : an AirBnB host
Love the walnut shell sandblasting image. Nothing says comfort like a peeling of 5 layers of derm. What about refills?
@luseruser oh right, refills!
/showme newspaper flyer for new dermis from a big box dermis store.
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Presumably, anyone buying this item already has a shower head that’s on the end of a hose, with 1/2"npt male threads. Otherwise, it’s going to point in a really useless or even counterproductive direction.
@werehatrack not for SOME…
“Screw it ny hand, don’ t use any tools”.
@phelmurh Should have stopped with the first two words.
@bajoriap Double David Spade! This must be what heaven feels like.
If I were to stay at a friend’s house and they had one of these, I would seriously question my choice of friends.
It looks like you’re gonna wash your whole bod with ibuprofen water.
@meganparsec mmm ibuprofen water…
@meganparsec better than Tylenol water.
@meganparsec It certainly isn’t tourmaline. Tourmaline don’t orange like that.
Got one if these for the high pressure years ago. It works. But it mists so much that even with the bathroom fan going the smoke alarm would go off and water would drip from the ceiling
@TheMan876 sounds spooky. burn a single candle during the shower… more spooky.
@TheMan876 My crappy fire alarms due the same thing. I have to make sure I take less than a 10 minute shower.
@Fuzzalini
/showme realistic lemongrab from adventure time screaming “UNACCEPTABLE!”
The /showme command is a member feature. Join membership to try it out.
@TheMan876 I’m a member, I’ll do it for you.
/showme realistic lemongrab from adventure time screaming “UNACCEPTABLE!”
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@TheMan876 I regret deeply doing this for you. I can never unsee…
@Fuzzalini you have my thanks. Funny thing is I just ended my subscription this morning haha
@Fuzzalini @TheMan876
Less than 10 min shower??? That’s not even possible, I’ve literally been trying for years and it’s a no go. I don’t understand how people say they take a 3 min shower and brush their teeth while in the shower? Did you even put soap on your body?
@Star2236 @TheMan876 That’s not really true. I have long hair and with shampoo and waiting for the conditioner to sink in, it’s probably closer to 15 minutes. But I have never brushed my teeth in the shower in my entire life.
@Fuzzalini @Star2236 brushing teeth would ruin the shower beer
My wife is a geologist and hates the woo that so many rock shops have… this may be the perfect prank stocking stuffer.
I guess she’s lucky my membership has lapsed.
@RevRagnarok Back during our first vacation trip by car through southern Arizona, I suggested looking for a real rock shop in the next town. We found one. Off the beaten path, 0% woo, with some really interesting stuff. Score!
@RevRagnarok
Please explain to me the woo of rock shops as I’m a rock person. I think in another life I might have been a geologist right next to your wife.
@Star2236 The crystals they often need to sell to keep the lights on. “This one is good for your aura!”
@werehatrack Sounds cool we went there 20 years ago for our honeymoon. If you ever find the name lemme know hoping to drag the kids out there this summer.
Five star review!
Two reviewers.
@IAMIS reveal: each one gave it two and a half.
Tempted to go for it just so that for $5 I can enjoy the anticipation of knowing I have a package coming.
I’m out. Who would have this in their house? With after day of junk like this, I can no longer justify my membership.
Sounds like an IRK, just look at the Price. I would guess it will also end up being put in many of the IRK boxes I. The future.
/showme a Cat using the Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head.
@mycya4me Here’s the image you requested for “a Cat using the Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head.”
@mediocrebot it looks like it’s human is is using it on the Cat, that seems to enjoy it. Strange!
@mediocrebot @mycya4me So that’s why my cats never liked taking a bath, I wasn’t using a stonestream shower head.
No one tells me anything.
@mediocrebot @mycya4me And this explains the kitty kibble in the shower head. Kitty kibble broth shower.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot @mycya4me I have a cat who’d walk in the bathtub when I was taking a shower or bath. Likely if I had had a pool, stream or pond he would have gone swimming (of course there is the one who goes nuts and runs away even if a tiny drop of water gets on her from my wet hands).
@cfg83 @Kidsandliz @mediocrebot That is my Male rescue cat. You can pretend to flick water at him, well that cat is Zooming away like it was stuck by lighting! Yes 1 drop of water scares him!
@cfg83 hehehe… well If you open you ears you might find out heheheheheheh
@mycya4me My ears are open, but …
/showme anthropomorphized goat named cfg83 with lots of stuff coming out of his ears.
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@mediocrebot Hrmmm, I wasn’t expecting it to look “cool”, but oh well.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot I would call it Weird!
@mediocrebot @mycya4me Weird, huh?
/showme anthropomorphized goat named cfg83 with stuff coming out of ears that reminds you of a cornucopia.
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@mediocrebot Hmmmm, getting kind of(?) better.
This is perfect for slumlor-- er, I mean, landlords who don’t care about their tenants.
The fact that it’s obviously cheap plastic doesn’t give me a good feeling at all.
@user27549550 Not to mention if it filters out bad stuff eventually that filter is going to have to be changed. Hmm someone above mentioned someone bought 6. Maybe that is why.
@Kidsandliz @user27549550 I’d be willing to bet it doesn’t filter out anything. This is just a garbage product.
where do I get new tourmaline stones, calcium sulfite stones, and “main” (copy editor? no??) stones? Or just toss it into the landfill to deposit all that ‘bad stuff’ removed from my shower water? Better buy six.
Also, WHERE is the RFK Jr. endorsement?
@JohnQ118 I think you just throw it away. I went here and could not find cartridges :
General
https://aquaguardstore.shop/
Shower Heads
https://aquaguardstore.shop/shop/aquaguard-shower-head/
@JohnQ118 probably best to skip the tourmaline, considering how often it is radioactive, thanks to the common inclusion of uranium and thorium…
It’s not especially dangerous unless the concentration of radioactive are extraordinarily high, but the one thing you do not want to do with an alpha emitter is ingest it…
Does it come with extra baked beans?
@jaba1337 NGL, at first I thought they were ibuprofen.
/showme jaba1337 showering, fully dressed in meh.com regalia, using a Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head that is filled with baked beans instead of stones.
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@mediocrebot /showme baked beans going terribly wrong.
@jo2y
/showme the forum user named jaba1337 showering, fully dressed in meh dot com regalia, using a Aqua Guard Mineralizing High Pressure Shower Head that is filled with baked beans instead of stones.
@werehatrack Here’s the image you requested for “the forum user named jaba1337 showering, fully dressed in meh dot com regalia, using a Aqua Guard…”
@mediocrebot @werehatrack
@mediocrebot @werehatrack do a good job, hahahaha
I love you guys, perfect timing, thank you, I will get six I use these shower head for many many years I remember I pay $19.99 till my last one 6 months ago $25, well guys guess what, I have a little tool to check my water and yes this lovely shower head that’s the trick!!! guys… I love you,… I love you, I love you.
Nilda
@RodyKevin How many gallons or time does it last for? When you replace it, do the inside rocks look gross?
I get a free shower head from my energy company every year as an “energy savings pack” I’m not sure how giving away free shower heads every single year is energy saving considering the energy it takes to produce, package, mail, and dispose of one every year… but it’s cheaper than $5 to me. So pass
I had some store.com bux so this came to $1.84 after tax…lfgggggg
/showme chapped-lying-orangutan
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I went to the aqua guard store, but couldn’t find the exact model. I think this is next gen model :
Original StoneStream Eco Power High Pressure Water Softener Showerhead with ON/OFF Switch — Dry Skin & Hair Relief — 3 S
https://aquaguardstore.shop/product/aquaguard-shower-head-B089MB8JP588
I was looking for how many gallons it lasts for but there was no indication, so just throw the whole thing away?
So… how long are those mineral beads supposed to last? Also, how often do you need to clean them so the inside of your clear shower head doesn’t look like a mildewy mess?
I have so many questions!
if you plant the beans inside of this shower head, they grow into a shower bush, which is highly invasive and illegal to possess in many southern states. check your local laws.
this looks like one of them fancy all colour pepper grinders.
I’ve had a StoneShower (the name brand version of this) for a few years and I absolutely love it. Does it soften the water? Hell if I know, I have a big ol’ house-wide system that has me buying big ol’ bags of salt.
what I do love is the pressurized stream/myst of water. I bought one of these to put in my guest bathroom.
/buy it for the weird gift pile
@walarney It worked! Your order number is: periodic-domestic-relation
/showme periodic domestic relation
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To be honest, it’s my grandmother’s favorite. I still remembered ：the very same type of spray nozzle that my grandmother used during my childhood has now become overgrown with microorganisms—specifically, green moss.
@jojojoanjoker
/showme kermit the frog getting clean and refreshed in a shower that sprays algae
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Received. You get what you pay for. Garbage. Right in the trash, doesn’t fit in the existing shower head holder which is a pretty common one, and it leaks like a sieve, the hoses that come with most of these handhelds have deeper connection points so you would have to come up with some sort of a thicker gasket because this doesn’t come with any.
@mattig88 Some things aren’t worth the JB Weld to make them work.
Snake oil aside, this shower head actually produces a decent amount of pressure and seems easy to clean. I’ll likely take it on travels just in case the hotel room shower head is ass.