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No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 9:09:46 AM

barelynangel

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Okay some random stupidity on a Sunday morning.

Does anyone else think this no touch soap dispenser is simply a way to make money off of gullible people?

I mean seriously, it advocates that it helps with the spreading of germs and such, but the object of the soap dispenser is to dispense SOAP onto hands so that you can wash the germs away. So what does it matter, if you are washing your hands, if you touch the soap dispenser prior to same and then wash your hands.

Is there something i am missing with this product because it really does make no sense to me and i am really irritated i didn't think of it so i can make some money on such stupid products lol

So any other stupid products you have come across as simply gimmics?

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 10:18:30 AM

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At my last employer, everything in the bathroom was automated. The toilets flushed themselves, the soap would dispense a squirt or two whether you needed it to or not, the paper towel dispensers were much less generous, you got rationed as little as possible. It was like Harry Potter's bathroom, waving your hands around all over the place.....

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 10:49:06 AM

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same as my former workplace. Everything was automated and yet everyone would use papertowels to open the doors and the minute they would get back to their desks they would use the sanitizer lotion on their hands lol. I thought it was overkill but everyone was afraid of getting sick all the time.

I'm mixed on the motion soap dispensers. On one hand I like them because I don't have to actually touch the dispenser. A lot of public places have dispenser handles that always seem to be covered in dried goo from other people using it which just feels gross to me. On the other hand I don't think it really does anything for not spreading germs.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:08:44 AM

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I dont care for automated toilet flushes- it never waits until I am done.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:33:55 AM

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ORIGINAL: barelynangel

Okay some random stupidity on a Sunday morning.

Does anyone else think this no touch soap dispenser is simply a way to make money off of gullible people?

I mean seriously, it advocates that it helps with the spreading of germs and such, but the object of the soap dispenser is to dispense SOAP onto hands so that you can wash the germs away. So what does it matter, if you are washing your hands, if you touch the soap dispenser prior to same and then wash your hands.

Is there something i am missing with this product because it really does make no sense to me and i am really irritated i didn't think of it so i can make some money on such stupid products lol

So any other stupid products you have come across as simply gimmics?

Yes, actually one of the more obvious (to me anyway). These are designed to sell more soap. Why? Because you can't adjust the volume of soap being dispensed. What most people don't realize is how little the amount of soap that is actually required to do an effective job of cleansing and sanitizing.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:34:14 AM

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No what i am speaking of is the Lysol one they are advertising for your family home and their reasoning is not it looks cleaner or such but it implies it spreads less germs. I agree the disgusting dispensers in public could use the autodispense.

"
LYSOL® Healthy Touch® No-Touch Hand Soap System helps eliminate the millions of germs that your hands can pick up each day! It automatically senses hands and dispenses just the right amount of soap. Handwashing is one of the most important steps you and your children can take to help you stay healthy and with the LYSOL® Healthy Touch® No-Touch Hand Soap System, you and your family will never have to touch a germy soap pump again. "

Maybe its just me lol but i just am not seeing the logic of paying for such a system as you are washing your hands anyway.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:38:15 AM

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quote:

Does anyone else think this no touch soap dispenser is simply a way to make money off of gullible people?
Yes and it will probably work

So any other stupid products you have come across as simply gimmics?
Disposable hand towels. Like we need more things to throw away.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:39:46 AM

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Maybe its just me lol but i just am not seeing the logic of paying for such a system as you are washing your hands anyway.

I agree. Somehow I managed to survive sharing a bar of soap with 4 siblings. I think the whole sanitizer craze is just hype, unless of course there were no germs hanging about back when I was growing up.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 11:43:23 AM

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Disposable hand towels. Like we need more things to throw away.

Oh GOD yes, I hate those things.When my eldest was an infant, we used cloth diapers, and when she was potty trained and no longer in diapers we suddenly had hundred or so unifrom sized thick, strong, soft and Oh-So-Absorbant towels available.

We used them for years!

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 12:11:29 PM

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I do bath and wash- hygiene. But I avoid chemicals. So colognes, scented laundry soap- febreaze, even bleach and nail polish - makes me nauseous.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 12:37:55 PM

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ORIGINAL: barelynangel

No what i am speaking of is the Lysol one they are advertising for your family home and their reasoning is not it looks cleaner or such but it implies it spreads less germs. I agree the disgusting dispensers in public could use the autodispense.

"
LYSOL® Healthy Touch® No-Touch Hand Soap System helps eliminate the millions of germs that your hands can pick up each day! It automatically senses hands and dispenses just the right amount of soap. Handwashing is one of the most important steps you and your children can take to help you stay healthy and with the LYSOL® Healthy Touch® No-Touch Hand Soap System, you and your family will never have to touch a germy soap pump again. "

Maybe its just me lol but i just am not seeing the logic of paying for such a system as you are washing your hands anyway.

angel

Since you put it that way

, it absolutely is pandering to the gullible public. Advertisers have created a lot of germophobes in the last few years or so. Many people seem to forget that just touching a "germ" doesn't automatically make you sick. Even if you did throw all caution to the wind and make every effort to "infect" yourself, there's still a really good chance your immune system would take care of it before it harmed you in any way. That's what immune systems are for.

Whatever gooey, soapy mess you might touch, you're washing it right down the drain with water, duh.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 12:46:06 PM

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Why can't i come up with these things for the gullible public to buy?

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 2:59:20 PM

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No what i am speaking of is the Lysol one they are advertising for your family home and their reasoning is not it looks cleaner or such but it implies it spreads less germs. I agree the disgusting dispensers in public could use the autodispense.

A friend of mine has one of these and I laughed at him for buying it. He said he actually loves it because they host guests quite a bit, and the soap dispenses an appropriate amount of soap for hand washing, other than store-bought liquid hand soap pump dispensers, where a full pump down gives you twice as much soap than you actually need, to wash your hands. In other words, the automated dispenser saves him soap.

I wouldn't buy it for the "germ" reason. I just think they're cool, and I like gadgets.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 3:01:56 PM

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Whatever gooey, soapy mess you might touch, you're washing it right down the drain with water, duh.

Maybe, but I find bar soap lying in a wet, gooey, having-sat-there-for-who-knows-how-long, soap dish to be disgusting. If I visit someone and this is what they have in their restroom, I'll skip it and use my hand sanitizer. Why wash myself in bacterial sledge, even if it is washing off and down the drain? Bleh.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 3:15:00 PM

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I have these in my bathrooms and I love them. No icky wet soap bars. And the kids think they are cool enough to use them.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 3:24:36 PM

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i guess i forgot about soap bars lol i have used soap pumps forever. I agree its a good alternative to the bars. And i also like gadgets so that is cool. It was the view they took that it saves on germ spreading that i just shake my head at.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 4:19:15 PM

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They are never calibrated right where I work. I have to wave my hand at the darn thing while it decides if it wants to soap me or not.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 4:21:54 PM

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DarkSteven, that leaves images that should not be offered on a nice site like CM! Soap on, soap off...

To soap or not to soap, that is the question.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 5:00:00 PM

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There have been some articles on being too clean. It seems that if you are never exposed to any germs you won't be immune to them. I am a slob, I don't wash cuts or anything. I probably have one hell of an immune system.

I smell my hands, if they smell dirty I will wash them, and the only other time is before I handle food and that's because someone else might be eating it. By smelling dirty I mean lke if I work on a car or something or handle something filthy. Actually I do wash them after handling raw meat many times because they might feel greasy.

I don't buy all this bullshit. Kids used to play in the mud, eat bugs and all this shit. Passing joints around five people swaps spit, which is technically sharing body fluids. None of this used to be a problem. The problem was getting it under the skin. But then there used to be blood brothers, remember that ? Cut the palms of your hands and rub them together. Even younger kids, ask an old hillbilly what a "shit eatin grin" really means.

And people didn't drop dead. Now kids can't have a lemonade stand. It's all in how culture has changed, some say it vanished. We used to have things going on, and what I remember wasn't the half of it. We used to also have lawn mowers that could cut your arm off, and saws too. How many people actually did cut their arms off ? My table saw, the guard is so fucking intrusive you can't use the damn thing, needless to say it is not installed. Know what I do ? Keep away when I am sawing something. Recently I turned down a shaft on my lathe that was attached to a bar (like a "T") and the setup was awkward and very dangerous. There was no other way to do the job. Know what I did ? I watched my back and if anyone was approaching I would simply turn the machine off.

Safety is another thing really, related but broader in scope. I think seat belts and air bags should be illegal. But there should be super reinforcements in the sides of cars. Lots of pointy things sticking out the dashboard. Then, when you Tbone someone you die and they are fine. Right now you are protected from your own stupidity.

Same with germs. There are certain things that I wouldn't be so careless about. Of course, do you think I am stupid or something ? My buddy works for a major university, and while he hasn't and shouldn't, if he were to take me into one of those biolabs, they got levels y'know, I wouldn't fuck around. This shit is not natural. But just some dirt or something, who cares ? It's part of your environment and you know what happens to organisms that are not properly adapted to their environmnet.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/18/2011 5:05:28 PM

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When you are cooking, working with something bloody or greasy, the no touch is nice because you don't contaminate another surface. I also have a nontouch garbage can. Love it.

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