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Originally Posted by handieman

Yes Water softeners use pure salt pellets to rejuvenate the softener material. My wife and I have never noticed a salty taste nor had any swelling problems, which would show up on my wife, shes salt sensitive. Are you sure your feet didn't swell up from walking Disney all day? ;D
Handieman

Well, yes...that's happened also. But, I know I also had swelling because of the tap water because my hands also swelled. And, since I figured out the problem and switched to bottled water, I've been fine on my WDW trips. I do drink a lot of water. Perhaps the volume of softened water I was drinking compounded the problem. But, for this reason, I'll have to pass on the water softener. (I'm also tired of paying for bottled water and want to stop putting more plastic in landfills,)