Posted on 09/07/2013 8:07:09 AM PDT by EBH
However, from the article:
Microbiologists at Gojo Industries Inc. say that washing your hands with contaminated soap from bulk soap dispensers can leave your hands filthier than before you washed them. ...Their solution: Refill soap dispensers with factory-sealed soap cartridges like the ones Gojo and other manufacturers produce. (Gojo Industries)
This is no less questionable than a an ice-cream company researcher telling me that my ideal weight is 300 lb.
The only way that fecal matter gets into even an refillable dispenser is if someone is purposefully putting it there, in which case a syringe and glue would make it possible in the bas as well.
I jet meant one that isn’t antibacterial
Speaking as the owner of a plumbing business, I can tell you that there is an incredible amount of variety among public and not so public bathrooms.
I did not know if you were looking for a soap or a detergent bar. Many “soaps” are really detergent bars or a combination.
If you live near a farmer’s market that allows non-food sales you might try a handmade soap. I think you would like it.
If so, HOW can the soap in the dispensers be unsanitary?
Just relaying my experience, which clearly doesn't encompass a vast number of American public restrooms. That said, can you explain how fecal matter gets in soap without someone purposefully putting it there?
The article covers that.
2 most contaminated items in a hotel room are the phone and TV Remote.
Floors are a given.
Zip lock bag works good for the remote and for me the phone is too expensive to use.
I use the phone only to call housekeeping for early service!
GOJO, who sells sealed soap, did some research and discovered that everyone elses products are unhealthy for us.
They state that vandalism, contaminated processing, and airborne germs contaminate soap.
A lockable soap container (like lockable towel containers) would help prevent the first, although purposeful contamination is next to impossible to stop, even with the GOJO product.
Contaminated processing is independent of the type of container that the soap eventually ends up in.
Airborne contamination of soap, makes me wonder if we aren't all doomed. Seriously, if fecal matter is contaminating soap, then surely its contaminating everything, everywhere.
GOJO obviously has a dog in the fight as it were, but I'm trying to balance this “study” against others finding that antibacterial soap is hurting us by being too effective.
If bacteria is treating the antibacterial soap as a petri dish, then it might be time to move to the mountains; of course, the air moves up their too.
I promptly starting talking s**t.
I had a good laugh when a person I know used sanitizer on his hands, and then lit a cigarette. The alcohol in the sanitizer caught fire!
Yeah, people need to remain sane and not go neurotic on this stuff.
There is a reasonable balance between practicing practical cleanliness to prevent the spread of disease, that all humans should practice, while not letting the obsession with purity and complete germ avoidance become an annoying, even crippling, personal problem.
If GOJO’s marketing and information campaign improves awareness among the businesses that use their products, then fine, I don’t lose sleep over this stuff.
Something that I have observed about service plumbers, is that while the work takes it’s toll on their backs and knees, their immune systems seem to be extremely healthy, repair plumbers rarely get colds and such.
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