I recently moved into a house that has, as noted in the thread title, very, VERY hard water.
Before all you city people chime in, I need to make a few things clear:
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A water softener is NOT an option (in other words, if you can talk grampa into buying one I’ll give you $100). Never mind that the nearest place to pick up salt for said hypothetical water softener is 30 minutes from here, and I’m lazy.
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We have well water, not water from a tower or city system. Ergo, we don’t pay for water, sewage, or drainage, and all the water used in the kitchen/farm/bathroom goes to a drainfield that is filtered through Nature’s own devices and comes back up through the well.
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Um. I’m sure if I tried I could make non-rural people understand how far out into the sticks I am, but I’ll stop there.
Anyhow.
Out here, it’s de riguer to run clothes through a spin cycle twice, to get all the soap out of them. Which is fine, if you’re a sweater. But my showers are taking me nearly half an hour - it takes that long to get the bubbles out of my hair.
Is there any such thing as a shampoo made for hard water? Or a pre-shampoo shampoo? Or a post-shampoo shampoo? Or … something?
Should I go back to Johnson’s and Johnson’s baby shampoo? Start using that Infusion stuff? Or am I pretty well screwed?