Pre-soften the water before washing your hair with it and clean your body/hair separately. Clean hair in a bucket/bowl of the softened water. To soften the water, put vinegar, lemon juice, or some other mild acid into the water and let it sit overnight.
Consider moving if possible. You'll just shorten your lifespan from the consequences of using/drinking hard water in the long term.
It leaves white stains everywhere where the hard water touches. The toilet bowl builds up stains very quickly because the minerals collect on the surface and give it a rough texture.
Owen Torres
Old 55gal steel drums are typically the cheapest way to go. You can pick them up free/cheap at most any scarp yard. From there you just need to figure out a gravity feed system.
Or you could just use social pressure to force your landlord to install a softener system. Nothing like angry tenants flushing hundreds of pingpong balls and plastic wrap to focus their attention.
Oliver James
Are you referring to the large water softeners like this? I can't install one of them in my apartment. My parents have one and the water quality difference between their house and this apartment city water is enormous.
I wonder if those small showerhead filters can make any difference. I'm going to get one and try it out, I'll use a testing kit to see if there's any change in water hardness.
I'm considering this as well, just having soft water ready to go to wash my face/hair and then quickly washing the rest of my body off with the hard water.
There's just not enough space for me to do this unfortunately, unless I manage to get really creative. It does look like I can get a big 55 gallon drum pretty cheaply though so I'll keep thinking about it.
Jason Evans
If you cry hard enough in the shower like I do , then you will pump up the salinity in the water.
Reverse osmosis, but you can't have RO in your main line, you can only use filters on each outlet. You should be more worried about drinking (and watering plants with) overtly hard water, so you can use a RO filter with a remineralizer for your drinking needs. NEETS don't need hair anyway
David Anderson
WTF IS HAPPENING TO MY HAIR BIZ
THE PAST WEEK MY HAIR FALLS OUT OF MY HEAD WHEN I BRUSH MY FINGERS THROUGH IT. IN THE SHOWER, LIKE 10 HAIRS ARE IN MY HANDS AFTER IM DONE SHAMPOOING.
IS THIS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO BALD? OR DOES IT JUST STOP GROWING?
source: i get this too after a weekend of frozen pizzas and hamburgers for instance
Aiden Gomez
Male pattern baldness usually means the hair just stops growing. If you are starting to have alot of hair fall out at once it's a bad sign, get it checked out.
t. Lost significant portions of my hair forever at 19 in less than a week
