Does softened water have a strange/bad taste or feel?
For most people that have grown up drinking untreated water from the kitchen faucet, drinking softened water will taste slightly different. Some older water softening units use a broad, generalized method of treating water, sometimes an excess amount of salt, which leaves the water tasting “dry” or sometimes “slimy”. However, newer, better softeners and filtration units are more specifically designed to match treatment levels to a family’s water usage – this greatly limits the difference in taste and feel of the treated water to what people would otherwise be used to. Whereas some households will claim their soft water tastes odd, other houses with a different softener will say their soft water tastes and feels completely normal and unchanged. In the end, how it’s treated will determine the resulting taste and feel.
