Evil Hard water tips?

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Hoping the collective mind of MN can help here.

DPs family live in a hard water area and MIL has psoriasis and eczema along with dull brittle thinning hair. Their water is awful, we live in a soft water area and notice the difference straight away whenever we visit. It’s very noticeable the people in their town often have dull lifeless dry hair, does anyone have tried and tested advice for this?

Does anyone recommend having a filtration system installed or do just the shower head ones work sufficiently?

Any specific cleansers, shampoos and conditioners that work?

Thanks 🙏🏻

They need a water softening system. Amazing but not cheap.

We have this it's horrible. The showerhead ones aren't supposed to work long term I read but I've never tried. I use some organic argon oil on my hair after washing it.

Our water is insanely hard. A lot of our neighbours have water softeners installed which they say work really well, but unfortunately we rent so not an option for us.

For our hair, we use "deep cleansing" shampoos once a week or so which helps a lot. There are a lot of out there... I usually use a Tresemee one, but Aldi do a knock-off version that works fine too.

We have super hard water so have a softener. Works wonders! Haven't noticed our hair being drier than normal. My dd has pretty bad eczema, a regular bath in Dead Sea salt helps.

Rinsing hair in organic apple cider vinegar is supposed to help.

Tbh, we've thrown in the towel with the hard water here and just had a water softener fitted.

Don't be conned by the shower heads, thy don't work.

A water softening machine does work, you're looking at £500 for the machine and £300 for plumber fees.

However, it's a real ball ache getting massive bags of salt delivered and then scooping them into the machine ever week or so.

Ours uses pillars of salt. Refilling the softener will be DS's job.

This is why we have had a water softener for the last 20 years. We've just had our first one replaced this year after serving us all of that time.

Not cheap, but well worthwhile. I dread to think of the number of kettles, dishwashers and washing machines I would have gone through otherwise, with or without adding softeners to them during the cycle or descaling regularly.

"Don't be conned by the shower heads, thy don't work."

Mine seems to work. Who says they don't work?

Our softener uses blocks of salt too. Very easy to refill, although the blocks are on the heavy side.

I have been using an apple cider vinegar rinse for some weeks (MN tip) in a hard water area and have noticed a difference to my hair.