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On Sep 10, 8:00 am, Smitty Two wrote:

Well, one upside is you won't feel quite as slimy getting out of the
shower.

The "slimy" card... often played and rarely understood.

Here's some info on "soap and softened water"
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...0332.Ch.r.html

My father was a university chemistry professor. The lab manual he wrote
to accompany the textbook he wrote contains my photograph, in the
chapter on soap and detergents. So yeah, I understand the slimy card.
And I still hate soft water. YMMV.