Chlorine gets a bad rap sometimes. Chorine works hard at keeping your water clean and safe. More often than not people only remember it for their red burning eyes. Remember that chlorine it not the only offender when it comes to burning in your eyes.
ALL ABOUT CHLORINE
There are a few different forms of chlorine, free and combines chlorine (or often referred to as total). Free chlorine is know as the "good" chlorine. Free chlorine kills bacteria and viruses in your water. When you add chlorine to your water, you're adding free chlorine. When free chlorine is combined with organics or contaminants such as bacteria, body oils, sun lotions, and any thing else you can think of it becomes combined chlorine. Combined chlorine is also know as chloramines. Combined chlorine is not very effective at sanitizing your water, but it's really good at turing your eyes red. It also is know for drying out your skin and also gives off that oh so wonderful chlorine smell.
KEEPING CONTROL OF YOUR CHLORINE
Make sure you are testing your water regularly. Make sure you are using methods that allow you to differentiate between fee and combined (total) chlorine. When combined chlorine is present, shock your water with chlorine or non-chlorine shock. This will help keep the chlorine odor away.
PH BALANCE
Another factor is red eyes is the pH levels. Always make sure your pH test between 7.2 and 7.6. Ths pH of a human is between 7.2 and 7.4. So, by keeping your pH level close to that of your body then you are less likely to have red burning eyes.
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