So... I have really hard water. I live in New England and have well water that leaves a sediment ring when I give the kids a bath. I have been waiting to try distilled water when lathering for a couple of years and finally decided to give it a try. I was expecting to have instantaneous gobs of lather be produced on my soaps (spontaneous lather combustion?) and giddily loaded up my brush to discover...no difference at all with the amount, quality, or time it took to lather. In fact the lather started to disappear a little on my third pass compared to my normal routine (face lathering hard soaps). I tried this for 4 days with the same outcome, no discernible difference outside of the ease of clean up from the brush. I think all of my earlier complaining about making lather with hard water was pretty overblown. Going forward I will not use hard water as a disclaimer when trying new soaps ( or traditionally difficult ones to lather) glad I tried it though...
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