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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.
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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.
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Take special precautions with automatic dishwashers.
Soft water, when combined with caustic phosphates in some dishwasher
detergents and very high temperatures in the dry cycle, can etch dishes
and glassware. To prevent this possibility:
• use the "no heat" dry cycle on your dishwasher;
• use the minimum amount of a good quality, low phosphate
dishwasher detergent needed to clean your dishes. This may be as
little as 20 percent of the amount recommended by the appliance
manufacturer or on the dishwasher soap box;
• wash good china and crystal by hand.
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Special care for plants and fish.
Depending on your water hardness level,
amount of rainfall and how often you water,
you could use soft water for outside watering,
but why waste your soft water? Water your lawn,
shrubs and outside plants from an outside hard
water faucet or put your Kinetico water system in
by-pass before watering. See "By-pass" on page 14 for
instructions on by-passing your system. Many houseplants can be watered
with soft water, although some houseplants can be highly sensitive to the
elevated level of sodium ions in soft water. You may prefer to water house-
plants with hard water or water from a Kinetico reverse osmosis system.
Fish accustomed to hard water may have trouble with an abrupt change to
soft water. Make the change gradually over a period of seven to 14 days
by blending hard and soft water until the tank contains 100 percent soft
water. Once you begin using soft water, you should notice that your fish
tank stays cleaner longer.