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How to Use Soft Water
Now that your Ergo 7 water softener is installed, you can enjoy all the
benefits of having soft water. If you are not accustomed to soft water,
here are some tips to follow to get the most benefit from your new
system:
Use pure soap products.
Most leading brands of laundry soaps,
household cleaners and shampoos contain large
amounts of detergents. The harsh chemicals in
these detergents are necessary when using
hard water, but you can reduce your use or
eliminate them altogether with soft water. We
recommend you use pure soap products, clear
liquid soaps without dyes and perfumes. If you
continue to use your normal detergents, you
should significantly reduce the amount used.
Your local water treatment professional can
provide you with more information and
recommended detergent amounts.
Use less soap and household cleaners.
When using soap or cleaners with soft water, start by cutting the
amount of soap you normally use in half. You may even find you can use
as little as one-quarter the amount you were using before. Hardness
minerals in water interfere with soap’s cleaning ability. Once they are
removed, soap can do its job better. Even though you’ll use less soap,
you’ll get more suds and cleaner results.
It’s especially important to reduce the amount of laundry soap you use.
Washing clothes in soft water not only means
you’ll need less soap to get your clothes clean,
but also that the soap you do use will rinse out
completely. Washing in soft water makes your
clothes look whiter and brighter, and they’ll
last longer too. It is very important not to let
your clothes sit in the washer after the cycle is
complete. Detergent buildup can stain your
clothing. When possible, use clear, liquid soaps,
without dyes or perfumes.
Soft water, better water.
After bathing in soft water, your skin should feel “slippery.” It’s not soap
you feel on your skin. What you’re feeling is your own smooth skin
without any leftover soap curd or residue. When you bathed in hard
water, you were never able to rinse this residue off completely. The
soap curd that left a ring in your bathtub was also left on your skin. But
now that you have soft water, you’ll feel soft, smooth and clean. The
same holds true for rinsing shampoo out of your hair.
