Effects on Your Skin, Hair, and Home
While the minerals in your water are safe to drink, they can make daily routines frustrating. Hard water and soap are a bad combination, resulting in a sticky soap curd that doesn't rinse cleanly.
- It leaves a film on your skin that can cause dryness and irritation.
- Hair can become dull, frizzy, and limp due to mineral buildup.
- This soap scum creates a grimy ring in the bathtub and leaves stubborn water spots on shower doors and fixtures.
The Smartest Filtration Choice for Bensalem
For water with 5.1 GPG of hardness, a targeted approach is more effective and economical than a whole-house system.
- Recommended: For better tasting drinking water and coffee, a faucet-mounted filter or a quality pitcher filter is ideal. These systems are affordable and effective at removing chlorine and other contaminants that affect taste.
- Not Recommended: A whole-house water softener is financial overkill. With a cost of about $1,500 installed, its estimated annual savings of $54 means it would take nearly 28 years to pay for itself.
Instead of buying bottled water at an annual cost of $600-$900, consider an under-sink Reverse Osmosis (RO) system. It delivers water that's purer than most bottled brands for pennies per gallon.