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2. This Vinegar Solution Will Clean Your Glass Shower Door in No ...

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   See the best ways to clean glass shower doors. Our cleaning pros share how to keep doors free of hard water stains and clean with or without vinegar.

3. What NOT to Do in the Shower - AOL

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   Let Soap Scum Build Up While there’s little health hazard here, if you’ve ever tried to clean a shower door with a ton of built-up soap scum, you know it’s no easy task.

4. 10 Surprising Ways To Clean With Dish Soap Around The House - AOL

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   Eliminate Soap Scum You’ve likely heard of the solubility rule, “like dissolves like,” making dish soap the perfect solution to removing soap scum from your tub and shower.

5. Soap scum - Wikipedia

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   Soap scum or lime soap is the white solid composed of calcium stearate, magnesium stearate, and similar alkaline earth metal derivatives of fatty acids. These materials result from the addition of soap and other anionic surfactants to hard water .

6. Calcium stearate - Wikipedia

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   It is also the main component of soap scum, a white solid that forms when soap is mixed with hard water. Unlike soaps containing sodium and potassium, calcium stearate is insoluble in water and does not lather well. [2] Commercially it is sold as a 50% dispersion in water or as a spray dried powder.

7. Hard water - Wikipedia

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   With hard water, soap solutions form a white precipitate instead of producing lather, because the 2+ ions destroy the surfactant properties of the soap by forming a solid precipitate (the soap scum). A major component of such scum is calcium stearate, which arises from sodium stearate, the main component of soap: