Personal Care Products in Sunrise Florida Water

Unhealthy Levels of Personal Care Products in the Water Supply of Sunrise Florida Homes

Everyday grooming and cleaning can leave tiny residues that enter the water cycle when soaps, shampoos, lotions, deodorants, fragrances and cosmetics are rinsed away or discarded. These personal care products — also called PPCPs — include a variety of ingredients and related consumer chemicals that can persist at very low levels even after treatment. You probably won’t detect them by smell or taste, but many Sunrise homeowners prefer to limit what’s in the water used for bathing, laundry and cooking, especially in a community where municipal water is typically hard and appliances can be affected by scale.

Personal care products encompass many different formulations, so they act differently once they’re in water: some dissolve, some attach to particles, and others degrade slowly. That variability — combined with changes in treatment and source water — means these PPCPs may appear sporadically. For Sunrise residents who want steady, predictable water quality across Sawgrass Mills-area homes, Sunrise Lakes, Welleby or other neighborhoods, reducing these compounds at the point where water enters the house helps limit exposure from every faucet and shower.