Water is vital to life! It is not only essential for human survival, but it also plays an important role in our daily household chores such as cooking, bathing, and washing. Water contains valuable minerals such as calcium and magnesium, beneficial to the human body. However, the amount of these minerals present in the water varies from place to place, defining the water hardness. The harder your water, the more damaging it could be to your home. The most common and visible results are limescale build-up in your heating system, home appliances, as well as unsightly stains on taps, shower heads, and surfaces. It not only gives you an unappealing look, but it can also damage and reduce the efficiency of your water pipes and heating systems.

Water softeners are one of the most effective ways to solve hard water problems. Because they treat your water to reduce the water hardness, resulting in softened water. Softened water has a very low or no hardness mineral content,  and therefore  limescale isn’t  a problem.

6 Benefits of Softened Water

1. Protect your plumbing system

Hardness minerals in the water often causes limescale deposits especially where the water is heated, which can wreak havoc on your plumbing system. It not only affects the overall performance of your system, but it can also shorten its lifespan, making frequent servicing more likely. This can result in a larger maintenance bill and an increase in the cost of ownership.

Softened water, on the other hand, strengthens the performance and helps maintain the efficiency of your plumbing system while helping keep additional maintenance to a minimum. You can easily enjoy the benefits of softened water by using a water softener. It treats hard water reducing the high levels of the hardness minerals  that impede the productivity and health of the plumbing system.

2. Ideal for your skin and hair

We’ve often heard people around us complain about dry skin and rough hair, blaming it on the weather or the cosmetics they use. However, many of them  have no idea that these problems can also be related to hard water. Hard water not only has an impact on your home, but it also has an adverse effect on your body, particularly your skin and hair.

When used on a regular basis, hard water can cause dryness and itchiness due to the high mineral content. It has the potential to dry out the scalp, causing your hair to become rough. Furthermore, when hard water is used on the skin, it leaves traces of minerals that clog pores when it dries out. This can cause your skin to feel dry and itchy, no matter how much you moisturize it.

Softened water is an excellent addition to your daily skin and haircare routine. Because of the low mineral content, it has a gentle effect on the body, resulting in skin that feels softer  and hair that looks shinier.

Hard water is also often associated to skin problems in children, such as eczema. According to  “The role of domestic water hardness in the development of skin barrier dysfunction and atopic eczema: a systematic review of the literature” from Jabbar-Lopez’s research, hard water can aggravate atopic eczema and possibly lead to its development in early life.

3. Keeps your clothes soft and fluffier

Have you ever noticed that the colour of your new clothes fades and they can feel rough on your skin after their first wash? People usually blame their detergent, but this is not always true. The real culprit, however, could be the hard water in your home.

Hard water causes the minerals in the water to combine with the soaps and dirt to cause scum that makes rinsing more difficult allowing deposits to build-up on your clothes, making them feel dry and rough. Softened water prevents mineral build-up and allows clothes to rinse more easily and fibers to breath more easily. Soaps and detergent lather more easily with softened water so you can use less whilst shorter rinses – keeping your clothes fresher, softer, and fluffier.

4. Protects your home appliances

Hard water has a direct impact on household appliances that heat water, such as boilers, kettles, and washing machines. When water is heated, the calcium in the water crystallizes and deposits limescale on your appliances. Limescale is a real threat to your devices because it can reduce efficiency, cause them to work harder and even lead to unexpected breakdowns. When you use softened water, your appliances last longer and you tend to save money on your heating bills as well.

5. Saves Time and Money

Using softened water in your daily life has several advantages that not only save you time when cleaning but also help you save money in the long run.

• It keeps your skin and hair in good condition, which means you won’t have to spend as much money on expensive haircare and skincare products.
• Often less servicing is required because there is no limescale build-up in your appliances to contend with, which can significantly reduce the cost of ownership in the long run.
• You also don’t have to spend money on chemical products to clean surfaces, fixtures, and dishes. Cleaning also becomes easier and less time consuming.
• Your clothes are softer and fluffier like they used to be, and you don’t have to spend money on expensive detergents or fabric conditioners.
• Heating systems works well with softened water, which helps prevents the build-up of limescale on heat exchangers, controls and pipework. This helps ensure the efficiency of your boiler and other water heating device aren’t compromised.  Helping you save money on future bills and premature failures.

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6. Eco-friendly

Softened water is eco-friendly and a great way to protect our planet blue. You tend to use more cleaning products than necessary when you have hard water. As a result, more chemicals are washed down the drain, polluting rivers and streams and polluting our environment.

Softened water not only saves money on chemicals and cleaning supplies, but it also makes your heating system more efficient, resulting in lower greenhouse gas emissions. With more people embracing green and sustainability initiatives, a water softener can assist you in doing your part to make the world a little greener.

Water Softener- An Ideal choice for you and your family

Most of the UK households in hard water areas recognise the effects of hard water. Scale, Hardness and Scum are the problem, BWT Luxury Water® solves all these issues together with a wealth of additional benefits for you, your family and your home.

A BWT Luxury Water® softener removes the minerals which are responsible for scale and scum. It leaves the user with BWT Luxury Water® that is kinder to skin, and allows soaps, shampoos, and detergents to lather and rinse away more easily. Affordable Luxury – Gentle for you, your family, and your home.

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