Experiment - 1
Garden soil + Water
Experiment - 2
Simulated bath water!!!
While I am quite certain that the water used with method body wash ( after filtration) is perfectly alright for flushing toilets, I can not say the same about using it for the gardens. Even the non-edible ones.
True, the organic matter in the garden soil can filter many of the chemical elements present in my body wash as mentioned in my previous post, and that my plants are "smart" enough to avoid the chemicals being absorbed in their system to a great extent. But my small patio garden is also not equipped with all the good microbes, bacterias, earthworms, the sun rays, deep layers of healthy permeable soil and many such nature's weapons -the soil ecosystem in totality- to filter the chemical residues in the bath water.
I would feel a little better if the personal care products that we use for bathing were designed with "the second life of bath water" in mind. For now, the scope of my water filtration project will be limited to using the filtered bath water to reduce the number of toilets flushes in my household!
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