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  2. Save Your Hair from Hard Water Damage With These Shampoos - AOL

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    A quick and easy solution is to get the best shampoo for hard water that works for your hair type! These best shampoos are designed to fight buildup and leave your hair feeling squeaky clean.

  3. These Are the Best Hard Water Shampoos for Healthier ... - AOL

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    Hard Water Wellness Shampoo. For glossier, easier-to-manage strands, both Haiti and Moser recommend this vegan, plant-based shampoo. With ingredients like nourishing panthenol, strengthening rice ...

  4. Cleaning agent - Wikipedia

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    All-purpose cleaners are usually concentrated solutions of surfactants and water softeners, which enhance the behavior of surfactant in hard water. Typical surfactants are alkylbenzene sulfonates, an anionic detergent, and modified fatty alcohols. A typical water softener is sodium triphosphate.

  5. List of cleaning products - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cleaning products and agents. Cleaning agents are substances (usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules) used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells, and clutter on surfaces. Purposes of cleaning agents include health, beauty, removing offensive odor, and avoiding the spread of dirt and contaminants to oneself ...

  6. Chemical drain cleaners - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, because the acidic or basic drain cleaners themselves are washed down the drain, this contributes to pollution in the water supply. Drain cleaners usually contain a strong base such as sodium hydroxide that decomposes hair and converts fats into water-soluble products. The reaction is exothermic, releasing heat to soften the fats.

  7. Hair washing - Wikipedia

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    Hair washing is the cosmetic act of keeping hair clean by washing it. To remove sebum from hair, some apply a surfactant, usually shampoo (sometimes soap) to their hair and lather the surfactant with water. The surfactant is rinsed out with water along with the dirt that it bonds to.

  8. Water softening - Wikipedia

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    Water softening is the removal of calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water. The resulting soft water requires less soap for the same cleaning effort, as soap is not wasted bonding with calcium ions. Soft water also extends the lifetime of plumbing by reducing or eliminating scale build-up in pipes

  9. Hair oil - Wikipedia

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    Similar to natural oils, artificial hair oils can decrease scalp dryness by forming hydrophobic films that decrease transepidermal water loss, reducing evaporation of water from the skin. [5] Oils on the hair can reduce the absorption of water that damages hair strands through repeated hygral stress as the hair swells when wet, then shrinks as ...