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  2. Should you be worried about hard water in your shower? Hair ...

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    For all the damage hard water can do to your hair, both types are completely safe to drink: in fact, some research even suggests that harder water might help support bone and heart health.

  3. Shower gel - Wikipedia

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    Shower jellies. Shower gel (also called body wash) is a specialized liquid product used for cleaning the body during showers. Not to be confused with liquid soaps, shower gels, in fact, do not contain saponified oil. Instead, it uses synthetic detergents derived from either petroleum or plant sources.

  4. How to remove hard water deposits from your faucets and shower

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    Hard water refers to water that contains a high amount of minerals. Water picks up impurities very easily as it moves through the rock and soil. Calcium and magnesium are the main culprits when it ...

  5. Will Body Wash or Soap Get You Cleaner? -- Savings Experiment

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    According to a recent report from Mintel, a consumer products and market research firm, liquid body wash now accounts for the largest segment -- nearly 40% -- of the total soap, bath and shower ...

  6. Zest (brand) - Wikipedia

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    Zest is an American brand of soap and body wash owned by Sodalis USA (formerly High Ridge Brands) for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and by Unilever for the rest of the world. It was initially introduced by Procter & Gamble in 1955 [ 1 ] with the slogan "For the first time in your life, feel really clean."

  7. 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

  8. 18 Surprising Ways You Can Use a Bar of Soap Around the House

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    2. Squeaky Hinges. From floorboards to door hinges, a dry soap bar can stop the squeaks. Just rub the soap on the squeaky areas and repeat if necessary.

  9. Detergent - Wikipedia

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    Detergents. A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions. [1] There are a large variety of detergents. A common family is the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which are soap-like compounds that are more soluble than soap in hard water, because the polar sulfonate is less likely than the polar carboxylate of soap to bind to calcium and other ...