That slick feeling is the CLEAN feeling though. Hard water is what leaves a drying out residue on your skin.
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That slick feeling is the CLEAN feeling though. Hard water is what leaves a drying out residue on your skin.
No. It's the soap not rinsing away completely. After about a week my skin stops doing it. I dislike it greatly so we bring your our own soap with that doesn't leave that residue.
I googled and are you talking of Kirk's Natural Castile Soap? I'm willing to look at other types. Most brand name soaps that are in regular stores are over drying to me and causes irritation (no matter if the water is hard or soft).
Just wanted to say sorry Luis, I mentioned our location only to say where ours was in the house. Not to contradict you.
Yep, that's the one. My local supermarket has 3 packs. Iirc it says coconut castile.
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I've read up on this and there is conflicting responses, but generally I find people saying that hard water rinses soap off better BUT it can leave a mineraly kind of film that can cause drying.
Personally I say to each their own. I don't like it, so we don't use it, but I get others don't like hard water so if they want to use a softener, more power to them.
Thanks! I have a few super markets they claim carry it. I'll have to check it out when I go to one of those next time.
I get the crazydude Dr. Bronner castile stuff from Trader Joe's. That soap cleans awesomely.
Dude is seriously nuts though
That's how your skin is supposed to feel though.
Hard water is bad for laundry, dish washing, skin, etc.
Looks scary based on the quick web search. I'll have to try to remember if we go to TJs again. We have a Whole Food 2 blocks from our house so I shop there more. I should check their soap supply too to see what they offer.
thats... not true.
Hard water will leave lime scale or the equivalent on your pipes if theyre metal (galvanized or copper), it wont leave anything on PEX or PVC/CPvC
Acidic water (often associated with soft, but they are two distinct characteristics not intrinsically tied, will mess with copper and galvanized pipes, but once again, not pvc/cpvc
If you've had hard water, and build up significant scale on your pipes to the point that its all thats holding them together, soft water may dissolve this scale, causing leaks in your pipes because they were at the end of their life anyway and were only being held together by the scale.
In no situation on its own will soft water damage your pipes.
Also some water softeners use sodium as a basis to soften the water. The sodium can get into the water stream, and that's also where the corrosion can come from. Obviously, this doesn't affect plastic.
there is nopresent. Thats a fact.
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is you gave an example of how acidic water which is associated with soft water can mess up pipes, then go on to say, there's no way soft water can mess up pipes.