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How to Use Soft Water
Now that your Kinetico Essential Series 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 Kinetico
dealer 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.
Reduce or eliminate the use of fabric softeners.
Fabrics washed in hard water retain soap curd or residue making them
“crackle”
when removed from the dryer or stiff if air-dried. Fabric softeners are necessary
with hard water to keep your clothing soft, but with soft water, you can reduce
your use of fabric softeners or eliminate them altogether.
