Someone must be good at chemistry ...

[blamebrampton]

Is there anyone out there who is genuinely good at chemistry? I have a writer who assures me that using Epsom salts in the bath will cut down on soap scum. This seems crazy to me, because the addition of magnesium to water will harden it, which I would think would lead to more, not less, scum. Am I secretly insane? Am I missing something? Is there a clever cunning trick that means the Epsom salts will harden the water but stop the scum sticking to the bath?

Is there any way of stopping journalists using internet gossip sites as their sole sources of information? Is there any way to make the internet more accurate? Is there any way I can be issued with a blanket immunity to prosecution for throwing things at journalists who say 'No, that's right, it was on the internet!'

Also ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY marinelle24 ! I hope you have a lovely day!

Comments

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

Actually...I use epsom salts to cut down on soap scum. I have no idea how it works, it's like magic! ;-p

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

How do you use it? And is Mr Sansa a chemist so that I can understand how this works? I am willing to accept it might, but want a mechanism I can understand.

I think in a previous life I was an engineer or physicist ...

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

Mr Sansa is an engineer, which means he thinks every problem in the world can be solved with a diagram.

Well, I don't clean with it, really. Every time I draw a bath for the kids, I add a little. Learned the trick from my mother-in-law. She said there's something about the salt that keeps the soap scum from attaching to the tub. It works. *shrug*