When I swim in the afternoons, I shower afterwards. The following morning when I shower, the smell of chlorine is very strong. It's as if I was having a swimming pool flashback. Do they use a different chemical than they used too?

A sanitizer chemical used in a public (or pricvate) swimming pool can involve one or more of various chemicals. Chlorine and Bromine are the most common. The level of sanitizer depends on how the chemicals are loaded. Older public pools may not have the level of automation, and may hyper-chlorinate shortly before peak swimming loads so ensure public health.

The only way you can get a real answer is ask the Pool Guy (or Gal) at your pool.

chlorine and bromine reacts with hair and skin





I used to add a little baking soda to shampoo when I had more hair and that used to help
there are shampoos and soaps that are supposed to help, but BS is pretty cheap.
Conditioner is supposed to help, too but it never seemed to for me and I never really liked conditioner.

When we had a pool I would notice it several hours later at the office where there was no air conditioning. Sweat seemed like enough to "reactivate" it. ( or other sweaty activities)

"When pool water is not properly balanced, chloramines form when the good sanitizing free chlorine molecules combine with ammonia in the pool water. The "chlorine smell" that you associate with swimming pools is actually ammonia being broken down by the chlorine."

Care to guess where the ammonia comes from?

Food for thought.

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"When pool water is not properly balanced, chloramines form when the good sanitizing free chlorine molecules combine with ammonia in the pool water. The "chlorine smell" that you associate with swimming pools is actually ammonia being broken down by the chlorine."

Care to guess where the ammonia comes from?

Food for thought.

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Agreed, Freerad needs to be more thorough washing the free chlorine off after swimming. The residual chlorine is being turned into chloramines by his waste products and this is what he is smelling.

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So, we're swimming around in a bunch of piss water? (^_^)

Reminds me of a South Park episode.

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Try a swimmer's shampoo for the shower when you get out of the pool. They have a lower pH than supermarket shampoos. Remember how vinegar neutralizes chlorine bleach?

Baking soda is abut the last thing I would use after a chlorinated pool. If there's a lot of dissolved copper in the water -- like from an algaecide -- you could turn your hair green.

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"When pool water is not properly balanced, chloramines form when the good sanitizing free chlorine molecules combine with ammonia in the pool water. The "chlorine smell" that you associate with swimming pools is actually ammonia being broken down by the chlorine."

I swim every day, coach and I used to manage pools. Chloramines are what gives pool chlorine that distinctive smell. To those of us who have been around pools for our entire lives, that smell is heaven to us.

There may be Chlorine in your water supply that you smell also . I have smelled it often.

Chlorine is a highly efficient disinfectant, and it is added to public water supplies to kill disease-causing bacteria that the water or its transport pipes might contain ...

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I use to help a friend that had a pool company.

He taught me how to test the various things in the pool water and what chemicals to use to bring things back into balance.

Chlorine is dispensed by the water being pumped thru a container having giant chlorine tablets.

After I saw what was in the water in a public pool and what chemicals that were need to keep keep a pool safe to swim in............I no longer will get into any public pools.

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