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All well water is considered hard, but local reservoir water could be hard water too. The hardness level of the water in your area will be dependent on where your water comes from. This means hard water has a high mineral content, often including minerals like iron, calcium, and copper. Rain is soft when it falls from the sky, but if it passes over rocks like limestone or chalk, the minerals from these rocks dissolve into the water. “Hard” or “soft” water refers to mineral content. If you’re battling with hard water, dry air, and extreme cold this winter, one thing you can at least attempt to improve is your water’s impact on your hair and skin. It can even stop the moisturizing ingredients in your conditioner or deep treatment from being able to penetrate your hair.

These mineral deposits can happen on hair too, resulting in dull, lifeless, brittle strands. If you live in a hard water area, you’ve probably had to deal with limescale on your pipes or calcium build-up in your kettle. We put all of this effort into finding the right products to keep our curls bouncy and healthy, but our water may be working against us! Have you ever been on vacation and gotten completely different results from your usual curly routine? It’s not until this happens that we realize the impact the water we use at home has on our hair.