Including filter system and high-performance Personal Care Products filter.
Personal care products can leave tiny residues that enter local water supplies when we shower, wash or rinse products down drains. This group covers ingredients from soaps, shampoos, lotions, deodorants, fragrances and cosmetics, plus related consumer chemicals that often show up at very low concentrations. You probably won’t detect them by smell or taste, but many Union Park homeowners prefer to limit these substances in water used for bathing, laundry and cooking. When people use the term PPCPs, they mean personal care products and similar consumer compounds that can persist past treatment.
Because personal care products come from many formulas, they respond differently once they're in water—some dissolve, some cling to particles, and others break down slowly. That variability, along with changes in source water and treatment upstream, means these PPCPs can appear inconsistently in your supply. For families in Union Park and the broader Orange County area who want more predictable water at every tap, reducing personal care products at the point where water enters the home helps limit daily exposure across showers, sinks and appliances.
For addressing most personal care products, the best single-filter choice is a whole-house activated carbon system sized to handle full-home flow. Activated carbon adsorbs many organic compounds, including numerous ingredients found in personal care products and PPCPs. Because these contaminants are usually present at very low levels, effective removal depends on sufficient contact time with the carbon while keeping strong household flow—so a correctly sized, high-capacity carbon tank is generally preferred over small cartridge filters for whole-home treatment.
Mr. Pure Water installs whole-house carbon filtration that treats water as it enters Union Park homes, reducing personal care products before water reaches showers, sinks and appliances. This point-of-entry approach is more effective for many PPCPs than basic sediment or small inline filters. With the appropriate carbon media and system sizing—important in our hard groundwater areas of the Orlando metro—you can enhance overall water quality without changing how you use your plumbing day to day.