First, it’s incredibly important to stay hydrated. Your skin starts to dry up as you age, so drinking the correct amount of water helps keep your skin healthy and helps it look younger. Water also helps reduce the effects of things like sunlight and smoking on your skin.

In addition, the deposits in hard water can greatly affect your collagen and cause wrinkles. One thing we hear all the time from Kinetico San Antonio customers is they love how their skin feels with soft water. That’s because their water softener is removing deposits like iron, magnesium and lead from the water. Those deposits make the skin feel oily. Calcium and chlorine in untreated water can also dry out the skin.

Water is important and essential for several reasons. But don’t lose track of the benefits of water on your skin!

- In many cases, bottled water is simply treated tap water marketed at an incredibly inflated price. If the bottle claims the source to be artesian, ground, well or spring water it usually means the water was taken from an aquifer somewhere. It may or may not have been treated. “Purified” water usually means it is either straight out of the tap or treated tap water.

- The contents inside the bottle cost a fraction of one cent, but bottles of water typically sold at a 200-1,000 percent markup. Americans alone spend $10 billion on bottled water each year.

- Bottled water sales are having a major impact on the environment. Around 85 percent of all bottles end up as garbage or landfill. Those bottles take 400 to 1,000 years to break down. And then there are the emissions, energy and gasoline used to produce, bottle and transport the water to stores.

These are just a few reasons why Kinetico San Antonio encourages reusable, hard-shell bottles that you can wash with your dishes and refill with water from the tap or from your Kinetico drinking water system.

Soap scum: Have soap scum on your bathtub, shower curtain or shower doors? That’s one of the more common signs of hard water in your home. Soap scum forms as a result of the soap interacting with hard water. The “scum” is what’s left over.

Spots on dishes: Another sure-fire sign of hard water is the appearance of spots or a cloudy residue on your dishes. This is also because of mineral build-ups in the water.

Deposit build-up on fixtures: Another visible sign of hard water is a white deposit that forms on water fixtures and faucets.

Soap has to work harder: This is slightly harder to determine – but hard water means you have to use more soap to get clean. One of the benefits we hear all the time from customers is they’re buying less soap and shampoo after investing in their Kinetico San Antonio water softeners.

Clothes wear out quicker: If the soap has to work harder to clean your skin and hair, it would make sense that hard water would mean issues with cleaning your clothes as well. Clothes washed in hard water often feel less clean and last a shorter amount of time.

So there you have it – five reasons to invest in a water softener San Antonio.

There are several advantages to soft water. Here are some of the things we hear most from Kinetico customers about the difference their water softener has made.

• Your skin and hair: A Kinetico water softener will make a big impact on your skin. Your skin will feel softer, and soft water will help get rid of dry skin. You’ll also feel cleaner with less soap residue.
• The amount of soap you use: You will use less soap and detergent with soft water.
• Your clothes: Hard water can do a number on your clothes. Washing them in soft water, however, should make them last longer and keep their brightness.
• Your dishes: That white residue on your dishes? That’s the result of hard water. Not only will you need less dish detergent with soft water, but it keeps your dishes shiny and clear.