I just read a post on another board and someone said it was hard water and makes their skin break out, and it made me think. I live in an area where water is extremely hard and always had problems with very dry skin and pimples. Well, not so long ago we bought a water softener. Right now it is mid-winter – when my skin gets so dry that it usually cracks open and bleeds – and my very dry skin is not at all. My face is clearer than it has ever been! I just never had the connection between my skin