Very hard water. Shower head filters, do they work?
We have very hard water. When you take a shower the soap hardly lathers up. Your skin feels so dry after showering. I was thinking about getting a filter for the shower head but not sure if it will take care of the hard water. Has anyone tried one of those and do they work? Are they expensive and what is the best kind. Do you have to buy replacement filters? We can’t afford a water softner right now and really don’t have a place for one. Also do you know of any special soap or shampoo for hard water?
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I’ve heard these are good:
http://santeforhealth.com/
I live in a house with only a tub, so I haven’t used one, but a friend has one of these and is pleased.
To help remove any build up that your shampoo may have missed, try this treatment once a week: Mix a half-teaspoon of white vinegar with a pint of distilled water. Pour it on your hair, let it sit for a few minutes and rinse out. Do this 2 -3 times a month at night, when you aren’t planning on going out due to the smell.
Vel is a good hard water soap.
However, Colgate-Palmolive just quit making it.
We live in a hard water district also, and most us old timers know that Vel was a good hard water soap.
Anyway, concerning a good decent ‘shower head filter’, for softening hard water,—there is no such thing.
I’m being honest with you.
There is only one proven, popular, most accepted way to soften water, and that is with a softener.
Keep trying different soaps and shampoos until you find one you like.
Since Vel is no longer made, I landed on ‘Dial for Men’.
It doesn’t quite do it like Vel did, but chances are, I’ll not find a soap that will.
Concerning shampoos, —-hard water, soft water, home, motel room, or at those we were visiting, ‘VO5 normal’, always did it for me.
However, since I had to change soaps, I shopped for a different shampoo also.
Now, it ‘Suave for Men’. So far, ok.
Hope this helps.
Most places, they call 10 grains of hardness very hard water, but on the farm where I was growing up, we had 80 grains of hardness. I know *exactly* what you mean.
You really need to use a castile soap in hard water. The only one that’s well known is Kirk’s. It is NOT a "fun" soap like Irish Spring, that knocks you over with a great scent, and it’s not a deodorant soap like Dial, and it’s not a luxurious soap that’s 1/4 cleansing cream. It’s a hard bar, and all it does is help clean. Yuck. If you can’t find it locally, Amazon carries it (below).
If you can’t cough up the chips for a water softener right now, you can rent one. Even after paying the rent and for the salt, it will cost less to have one than to NOT have one. Hard water is hard because it has calcium and magnesium in the water. You end up using less soap, less detergent, less dish soap, and less shampoo if you have soft water and those things add up fast. You can also rinse clear with soft water, which means you don’t have calcium and magnesium crystals in your clothes, cutting the fibers every time the cloth bends.
No room? Throw out something. You NEED a water softener.
You need a water softener. A filter will not remove hardness minerals.
Water softeners are not cheap but they do make a world of difference. My 2 year old had eczema real bad until we got the water softener. Now she hardly has any crusty skin.
I have bought from these guys before and had a good experience.
http://qualitywatertreatment.com/water_softeners.htm
dude you need a water softener,they are made for hard water.