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Why ordinary soap is not suitable for using with hard water ?

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Ordinary soaps when treated with hard water , precipitate as salts of calcium and magnesium. They appear at the surface of the cloth as stickey grey scum . Thus the soaps cannot be used conveniently in hard water .
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