"Softened water is unsafe to drink"
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They're the ones laughing all the way to the bank lol. Honestly in situations like this, if you're going to pay them instead of do 5 minutes of research and realize they're lying, then you deserve to waste your money. Softened water is just fine, but I'd refrain from drinking heavy water, that's just me...0
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Weakly buffered alkaline water is also all the rage now as well.0
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I won't drink water with Cholera in it.0
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Soft water gave me psoriasis0
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RO water mean: Reverse Osmosis and it is so much more pure than tap water that it is used exclusively in dialysis patients treatment. Why do you have a problem with RO water?
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I just scoop my water from the puddle out back. Right now, it's frozen, so ibjust break off a chunk. Looks pure to me.0
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Like a baby ... because it is indeed safe to drink.
Entire municipalities soften water...especially if their only source of water if from wells in carbonate rock formations.
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I need the hard water because otherwise I don't get enough minerals. I hate veggies so skin absorption is a great alternative0
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concordancia wrote: »
Yeah but if something harms your skin it probably isn't a good idea to ingest it
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We had to go RO to get rid of sulfates(?) in our water that our softeners missed (and made our stomachs very sick) but that wasn't an issue with soft water.0
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concordancia wrote: »
Yeah but if something harms your skin it probably isn't a good idea to ingest it
My skin will react with anything, including aloe and my own sweat, so I don't go by that. Not that I generally ingest my own sweat, either...
Let's take a better example: my skin does not like iron (or most metals, for that matter), but it is kind of important for me to ingest it.
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At least it doesn't contain baking soda.0
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justcat206 wrote: »We had to go RO to get rid of sulfates(?) in our water that our softeners missed (and made our stomachs very sick) but that wasn't an issue with soft water.
Well water? Most municipalities are decent about getting stuff like that out before it goes to distribution.
Yeah, my angst with this is mostly on municipal waters.
Anion exchange resins aren't as nice as water softeners for replacing ions with things as innocuous as sodium or potassium.
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LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »At least it doesn't contain baking soda.
I put that in my water to help digestion and put my body in a healthy state of alkaline0 -
LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »At least it doesn't contain baking soda.
Unless you expose it to air, then it does...
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justcat206 wrote: »We had to go RO to get rid of sulfates(?) in our water that our softeners missed (and made our stomachs very sick) but that wasn't an issue with soft water.
Well water? Most municipalities are decent about getting stuff like that out before it goes to distribution.
Yeah, my angst with this is mostly on municipal waters.
Anion exchange resins aren't as nice as water softeners for replacing ions with things as innocuous as sodium or potassium.
Yep, well water. We've got some crazy stuff out here apparently The worst, though, is forgetting and watering my houseplants with the softened but not filtered water. Apparently there's enough salt in the water to kill them. They do fine with the well water straight from the spigot though. Oooops.0 -
Hmm...maybe your plants need calcium or magnesium. All the salt (chloride) will be washed out during a softeners rinse cycle.
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