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.
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.