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- 2 days
I just want to point out for a lot of people complaining abojt how often you refill your soap dispenser: consider how much soap you’re actually using.
Most of the world lives in a consumerist, capitalist society. Overconsumption is encouraged by pretty much everything around us. When you see an ad for a product, or even just look at the pictures on the packaging, the people shown using it often use way too much.
Laundry detergent for example. You only need a tiny bit, and studies gave repeatedly shown that thr pods of liquid are waaaaay too much detergent for a load, to the point where it is actually harmful to the washing machine.
Motor oil is another one. If you look on the bottle it probably days to change your oil every 3,000 miles, but if you read your car’s manual it likely says to change it every 10,000 miles, or more.
Toothpaste is another. You should use a pea-sized amou t of toothpaste to brush your teeth, but all of the pictures and artwork and graphics show a toothbrush oveflowing with 5-10 times that amount.
For soap dispenser that you pump, you absolutely do not need to use a full pump of soap to wash your hands. Each dispenser and soap brand is a little different, but with attention and practice you can get a feel for how much soap you actually need to wash your hands. The added benefit is that it saves the time it takes to rinse off all tbe unnecessary soap.
- 2 days
It pretty much solves refilling. It does come with a trade-off, the time it takes to lather.
- 2 days
If a soap is hard to lather the issue is more likely your water than the soap. Hard water makes soap hard to lather and makes soap scum much much more prevalent.
- 2 days
We don’t have hard water, so I think you’re right. I wouldn’t save much time by having a dispenser versus a bar of soap.
I actually have a bar of soap right now, and I’m fairly happy with it, but I know my guests assume that it is less hygienic. It is important to note that I often use the dispenser for some reason instead of the bar of soap, even if I use the bar of soap fairly often.
Anyways I need an option that guests are comfortable with.
So its either having a dispenser, or a dispenser AND bar of soap. Currently we have both, but the dispenser is really small.
- 2 days
This is absolutely right.
Our kitchen sink has a soap dispenser. It had this stupid tiny little bottle that you had to refill from the top while you couldn’t see how much was in it so I had to put a flashlight underneath and then lean over while I pour trying not to spill. Screw that.
I bought a kit on Amazon to fix it. You remove the bottle entirely, and then connect to the bottom of the pump a PVC tube with a check valve. On the other end of the hose there’s a bunch of different size lids for whatever brand of soap you have.
Now I buy the soap in bulk, stick the bulk pack under the sink with the hose stuck in it. This runs out about once a year and when it does I just buy another bulk pack and swap it out.
Worth every penny.
Another thing, for the bathroom. Get a large foaming soap dispenser. And then get the soap that comes as tablets. Fill the soap dispenser with hot water and then drop in one or two tablets. They fizz like Alka-Seltzer and when they dissolve the result is foaming soap liquid.
3 days
Get these. Life-changing. They’re designed to dispense soap or sauce. Mix them up for a truly exciting life!
- eightys3v3n@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
I agree. Why TF do I have to refill the soap every week. Why can’t I refill once a year.
I tried to buy foaming soap because I had to refill less often, but no one offers refills 😡Foaming is much better, doesn’t just slide off and run down the drain once the water hits. Bath and Body Works has foaming refills on their website.
- W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 days
Or you can buy foaming dispensers that you fill with like 25% regular soap and 75% water and it’ll foam up.
- 2 days
Most liquid soaps are pretty nutritious for microbes and don’t contain enough preservatives to stop them growing if they’re diluted, so this is probably not a great idea if you’re not buying specific concentrated soap that’s intended to be diluted.
Off the top of my head, I’m pretty sure I read it in New Scientist years ago. With some googling, I’ve found lots of people making the same claim in various comment sections, but not anything coming down one way or the other from anywhere especially reputable. I’ve also found some people on a soap-making forum saying that you don’t need preservatives if you’ve made the soap yourself and ensured it’s still alkaline after all the fats have saponified (which won’t necessarily be the case for store-bought soap as they often have extra fats so they moisturise skin a bit).
I love how the comment chain started with complaining about it being time consuming and it ended with suggesting a more time consuming method.
- Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radioEnglish3 days
Next thing you know, your checking fucking pH balances and shit.
- 4 days
That’s the only way in my house! Muji’s soap dispensers last for years and you only need to dilute regular handwash with water to make it work.
Of course. Probably part of the issue is that liquid dispensers also dispense far too much soap for a single hand washing. I think they could be set to about 1/4 to 1/5 of the current amount and still have plenty.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
That seems completely different. I use non-foaming soap at home and can get out exactly as much soap as I want by pressing the dispenser head less (or more, or multiple times). If I didn’t lather it, sure, it’d run off with the water. But I do, and so it doesn’t.
If you’re getting so much soap that it’s washed away even after lathering, I don’t see how foaming soap is going to help with that.
- 3 days
There’s this concept called lathering, I think it’ll change the way you look at soap.
Oh, where have you been these past decades, hoarding the wisdom to rub my hands together?
- eightys3v3n@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
No they don’t take regular soap.
They take a much thinner version of soap so at the very least you would have to take regular soap and experiment to figure out how much to dilute it by and then dilute it before putting it in the foaming dispenser. That’s even more work and potentially messier than just refilling it more often with regular soap.Yeah my SO and I go through those little bottles. She washes her hands obsessively but even when it was just me, I basically never want to have to refill it. It doesn’t help that we have four different soap dispensers throughout the house at different sinks and for different purposes so it feels like one of them always needs to be refilled.
OP, are you just trying to recreate a public bathroom in your home? It’s OK if you are, but in combination with your other meme like this it’s oddly specific lol
- 4 days
Well look at fancy pants over here with a wife, while I can’t even afford soap…
First you get the soap, then you get the money, then you get the wife.
I saw this and immediately thought “oh no, please no more soapy titty memes”
- 3 days
This reminds me of a thing, I like to have a pump soap dispenser by the kitchen sink filled with dish soap, so that a quick wash of something is easier.
Allow me to introduce you to a spray bottle with water and a little bit of dishsoap.
- 2 days
That does sound good, but it would have to be picked up, and I like just hitting the top to get a little, but that would be good for getting good coverage, and other cleaning, so I will keep this in mind.
I do this, it’s a game changer not just for dishes but all kinds of cleanup jobs.
Every few months I spend all day not getting anything done because instead I’m browsing that website, just looking at all the wonderful things
- 4 days
Seriously… why refill it so often?!
And you needed to actually EXPLAIN your reason?
- 4 days
At my last place I got a stainless steel, wall mounted hand sanitizer dispenser. Loved that thing, put it near the entryway
