Originally Posted by
thebigspendur
I don't use the stuff these days however when I did use MWF I found it just required a good bit more water than other soaps I had encountered at that point. Once I realized that, lather building with it was no problem.
Yes, hard water can make lathering a challenge and some soaps simply don't work. Hard water usually requires you to use way more soap and sometimes you wind up with just a poorly performing product.
The soap mistress had asked me to test a couple of her soaps with hard water. I have very hard water like 8 grains or so but I have a softener. With the softened water the soap created perfect lather but when I switched to untreated water it was like winter vs summer. The stuff simply wouldn't lather. I had to use way more product and even then wound up with a very weak thin lather that didn't last and had zero cushion and glide to it.
Commercial outfits add chemicals to soap so it performs well with all water types.