Pro Products ResCare RK02B All-Purpose Water Softener Cleaner Liquid Refill, 1 Gallon, Pack of 4

I used this product in two 64,000 gr resin beds over 5 years old in a house with greater than 5 occupants using the water from our well and water softener. I did each twice. The amount of iron etc. that came out in the rinse was significantly better than with Iron outt and salt alone. I believe the resin bed was cleansed from some impurities that I could not significantly remove during a normal ion exchange cleansing with salt and Iron outt. I have now returned to only using salt and the resin works much better than before the use of this product. I will use this again if I notice the resin bed needing an early regeneration or probably at yearly intervals. There was a taste of the phosphoric acid in the drinking water until the resin had been cleansed with salt only using two additional regeneration cycles. You may want to increase your rinse time on your unit to speed the process. Update: 9.17.15: I was only using salt with the salt purchased in 50 lb bags with the iron reduction addition. After 2 years, the efficiency of the resin bed was decreasing and occasionally I would have to early regenerate a cycle due to the complaint of a smell or hardness occurring. I did not want to run the full strength 4 oz per cubic foot of resin as it previously took 2 regeneration cycles to remove the phosphoric acid taste, thus I tried 2 oz with my longer backwash time as I mentioned earlier. I also changed the setting on my water hardness to a higher number which will cause the control unit to give me less gallons per next regeneration cycle (in my case from 1800 gallons to about 1400 gallons and thirdly increased by brine refill which will utilize more salt and a better ion exchange per cycle). After the 1st cycle the unit works great and with my longer backwash no noticeable taste by family members of the phosphoric acid using 2 oz in the salt tank. I continued manually adding 2 oz to my salt tank prior to regeneration and a month later and the water has been close to perfect in the house. Will use when needed with 2 oz res care per cycle and planning on using it at least monthly to help keep the resin clean and effective. Things to remember: 1. The resin will become less effective over time vs. when new so expect its ion exchange ability to diminish over time 2. If on well water the iron and other hardness factors needing to be removed may change over time. 3. the cost of a bag of salt is meaningless compared to the family complaints of stinky hard water forcing me to get up and run regeneration cycles at night etc. is not desirable; so , prevent this experience at all costs by changing the parameters above and as in my case only getting 1400 gallons divided by 5 equals 280 five gallon bottles or about $700 worth of "good" water if purchased from a supermarket. It's still a good value and don't go for the max 1800 gallons as in my case as it is not worth the risk. I answered unknown blue color question in question section today: unknown blue color in salt tank is probably Ferrous Phosphate precipitate from some phosphate combining with iron in the water (inorganic chemistry lab). I think its quite pretty and of no concern to me. Update: 8.22.17 The water has been good as long as I add about 3 to 4 oz to salt tank with each regeneration cycle as preventative maintenance...

I add this stuff to my water softener for my well water seems to work great very easy to use. I don’t taste any weirdness when using my water. There’s no smell to my water. My water just taste clean.

OK, so I was a bit skeptical about some magical elixir that could fix my water softener. It started out that our dishwasher was leaving spots and had kind of a funk, even when the dishes were clean. We bought special cleaners for the dishwasher, we cleaned out the trap and everything in the dishwasher and tried a number of other things that did not fix it. So, just on a hunch I bought a bottle of this resin cleaner, and after the first use, I could tell the softener was working better as soap lathered much better and then after the second time, we have gone multiple weeks and still not had funk in the dishwasher. My wife and I are nothing short of ecstatic that this stuff remedy the problem. I had a contractor in basically telling me that I should replace my water softener which would have been over $1000 likely. This $30 miracle in a bottle will potentially extend the life of my water softener for years to come. Also worth noting, I tried a different resin cleaner previously, and it did not have anywhere near the results that I experienced with this one. Highly recommend.

This is an occasional use water softer cleaner. I've only used it once, so far, and it seems to do the job. It's cheaper and less nasty than the competitor's product that I had been using. It will likely take six or seven applications to reasonably gauge the long term effect. By the way, Amazon, "flavor" should not be a rating feature because if a consumer tastes the product, something has gone seriously wrong with the application or softener function. This product cleans the softener beads after which there is an extensive rinse cycle to wash away the product prior to resumption of the softener function. At that point, the cleaned beads should do the softening without imparting a "flavor" to the water. Thanks.

it had arrived on the 7 of nov on time works great on the water treatment in the home.thank you so much for having this [product

Great product

This product really works. In the past I thought I would have to replace the resin in my water softener. Then I found this product and my cell phone has been working fine for over 5 years

My water softener is 6 years old but it never seemed to get the water truly soft - my well water does not have iron & is not extremely hard (about 12 grains). I had the softener company out a couple of times & they claimed it was working properly, however, I got them to increase regeneration frequency & salt usage anyway - still no significant change. I came across Res Care & got a gallon. I first cleaned the brine tank to get rid of any sludge, etc. & then started using the Res Care with each regeneration. The water is amazingly soft now & seems to be getting even softer over time. For the time being I will continue using the Res Care with each regeneration as it recommends on the label. When this gallon runs out, I'll definitely be ordering more. A gallon of this goes a long way, which makes it well worth the price.