How do water softener systems work? Are they magic? Adding salt gets rid of other minerals. . . HOW? I’ve never understood this. I’m 54, male.
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Used to work for a company that sold water softeners. One thing I didn’t see mentioned below is a lot of people complain *after* putting in a water softener that they don’t feel the water gets them ‘clean’ after a shower.
The reason apparently is all those dissolved minerals in the hard water act as a mild exfoliant, and without them, people feel like their skin is not being scrubbed.
And it is those tiny dissolved minerals are the real reason for getting a softener, IMHO. We have an ice maker in the fridge, a built-in coffee machine and a dishwasher. Hard water attacks all the seals in those devices, and over times, erodes them, causing leaks and other malfunctions.
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