Thread: Soap and hard water!

I live in an area with very hard water and to be honest, I've never had any trouble making a good lather, I've only used a few different soaps, Trumpers, Crabtree & Evelyn, Body shop, Palmolive.
The biggest downside to hard water is what it does to domestic appliances, but we're told it's healthier to drink than soft water. A lot of my neighbours have installed water softeners which use salt.

One of the old tricks softener salesmen use is first to take a piece of cloth you have in the house that has gone through the wash many many times and they put it in a bottle with soft water and after a few minutes and some shaking the bottle is full of soap. The other is to take a bottle of your hard tap water and apply a few drops of green liquid soap and shake it and nothing happens. Add a few more drops and nothing happens. Add a few more and the water develops this bluish scum with some weak suds. Now take a bottle of softened water and add a drop or two of soap and shake and you have clear water with a rich head of foam on it.

The moral of the story is with real hard water soap doesn't lather well and you use way more soap which stays in the fabric after the wash is done.