Has anyone successfully refilled Dettol no touch soap bottles, if so how ?

Evil_Olive

Can see that most of you got these for free so not totally relevant but I've never understood the point of these really - the only thing that ever touches the top of a normal soap dispenser bottle is your hands, when you're just about to wash them anyway, so surely there's no need to worry about the top transferring germs to your hands?????

I give my dispenser top a quick go over with the soapy sponge each time I do the hand-washing-up. Pretty sure the germs on it never get to a level where they could contaminate anything that's not touching it

And I luv cats, I refill mine with foam bath too - Value brand stuff at about 40p a litre
Antibacterial stuff is just a marketing ploy - the basic chemicals used to make any kind of soap are naturally antibacterial without any additional ingredients - though you can add a tiny drop of zoflora if you're paranoid

ragz_2

I just made a hole in the top and poured in regular soap. I assumed it would need resealing, but it doesn't.

The point for me was, the children struggle with the soap dispensers, in our toilet they can barely reach the shelf they are on... plus, the novelty means they use it more!

IrishRose12

I've saw these soap dispensers on sale recently and have been tempted to get one, but can't for the life of me see the point in them. The germs from your hands go onto the water tap when you turn it on, so it doesn't matter about the soap, as once you wash your hands you've to turn the tap off again???

Unless I've been washing my hands wrong my whole life:eek:

ivyleaf

They are very handy for anyone who has only one hand.;)

Evil_Olive

I stand corrected ragz and ivyleaf
They obviously are of genuine use to some people
I still think that they were originally a greedy marketing man's attempt to impose upon a gullible public by convincing them of a danger that didn't exist in order to sell them something they didn't really want or need, and that their actual usefulness to small children and one-handed people was an unintended and unforeseen side effect
But I am a cynical cow

IrishRose12 - LOL - I never thought of that - makes a mockery of the whole business! - what is actually needed is a hands free tap!

Badrick

Evil_Olive wrote: »

IrishRose12 - LOL - I never thought of that - makes a mockery of the whole business! - what is actually needed is a hands free tap!

Not very MSE (see price :eek:), but they do actually make them
http://www.autotaps.com/ama-series.html

Ecky-thump

Personally, I am right handed and use that hand for personal care in the bathroom and then I use my left hand to operate the soap pump.


So then, I do not think I need an automatic soap dispenser for the purpose of protecting the top of it from germs.


Also, I have a tap which only needs to be lifted upward to use the water and that too is done with my left hand.


No need to waste good money on this no-touch dispenser. It is an invented precaution to produce sales.

IrishRose12

Evil_Olive wrote: »

IrishRose12 - LOL - I never thought of that - makes a mockery of the whole business! - what is actually needed is a hands free tap!

I'm telling you, I have never understood the whole business of hand free soap dispensers to stop the spread of germs considering you still have to turn the water tap on and off! A normal bar of soap is good enough for me thanks very much lol.
Hasn't done anyone else any harm since it was invented so I doubt it's going to kill me or make me sick now!