This is no small amount. That is a lot of salt entering your body on a daily basis. Science has linked salt consumption to high blood pressure, circulatory problems, and fluid retention. Salt in drinking water increases blood pressure even in people as young as high school age. The minerals that are removed by salt softeners are very important to your health.
All softeners lose a large amount of efficiency in scale reduction after just a few years.
Although the suds last, the scale begins. This presents quite an expensive problem. The only difference between magnetized soft water and salt soft water is that magnetized water sometimes leaves a very faint and easily washable ring around the bathtub. Most people prefer the minor maintenance of rinsing the tub to the very expensive and toxic problems of maintaining a salt softener. Salt softened sudsing, like ocean water, is much higher.