I had been reading about Citric Acid being used with hard water to help lather. I forgot to fill my water softener and now my water is hard. I finally found some citric acid and tried it for the first time yesterday. No lather whatsoever

I wonder what I did wrong. I placed my brush into soak into my scuttle with hot water and citric acid. After my shower, I dumped my scuttle, put the normal amount of water into the scuttle, added citric acid and tried to make a lather - not one bubble. I ended up grabbing my shower brush and using some more Arko to do my shave. I dumped the water out of the scuttle and just used the bare scuttle to keep my brush warm for a second pass. The left over (not visible) Citric Acid killed the lather on that brush. And when I tried to place lather on my face ---- what burn ---- almost like alum burn.

How much Citric acid do you use? The stuff I found is used for canning and it looks like it is pure citric acid, nothing else.

Any ideas?