Is this unhygienic?!

Make sure you have a photo of your complimentary shower gel in your listing photos.

That way you can weed out the crackpots.

They are soap, which is the opposite of unhygienic. I sometimes suspect people do not realise this.

@loislaneloves You have a right to reply, so tell them you avoid using individual sachets for environmental reasons!

They’re being unreasonable in removing a star for your kindness in providing the products in the first place!

Definitely not unhygienic in this set up. That's a harsh mark down.

yes, but in that 45 minutes you will have possibly touched your previously dirty bag, handles, your face, walls/doors/tables, other people, cutlery, menus, handrails etc.... then you haven't washed your hands for 45 mins+, then you sling your dirty bag on your back, go to toilet touching more dirty things, wash your hands and then immediately touch door handles, maybe your bag, other people, hand rails etc etc

But you're worried about a soap dispenser pump, and that's a germ too far?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Bonkers!
ive recently stayed at a very top end expensive hotel and all their toiletries were in big pump bottles. In fact I can’t remember the last time that any hotel I stayed in offered individual small bottles. I often take my own bar soap because I prefer it. Sometimes my own shampoo because I have a sensitive scalp. But nothing to do with germs!
In my own holiday cottage you just get a refillable bottle of Smol hand wash. It’s self catering.

It’s perfectly normal and I’d be delighted to use such lovely luxuries.

Some people are just never bloody happy.

She's a fusspot and completely unreasonable. Hotels, restaurants, all kinds of places have these large refillable toiletry bottles. If you don't like them, or have particular needs, then you take your own.

My hands are washed regularly, at the moment every hour at the very minimum as my diabetes is currently working over time to irritate me.

Plus the point wasn’t about me having hygeine issues (I don’t), but a poster who felt putting their dirty hands in their bag and all over their belongings after using a public toilet, was cleaner than using soap in a public toilet to wash their hands.

One final point, if anyone really is that precious about "germs" wouldn't they bring their own toiletries including shampoo and shower gel?
Does anyone really go on holiday without a "wash bag" ?

Another thread on MN to demonstrate just how completely batshit some people are.

Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Most hotels have switched to this because it's more sustainable.

You rinse the top of the bottle off? With water?
What good will that do??? 😂😂😂😂

Of you think rinsing a bottle top off with water cleans it enough to kill any lingering germs ... Then you think rinsing hands with water is enough 😂😂😂😂😂😂

What do you do with those ones that are wall mounted? That you can't clean?

That’s ridiculous. We stay in 5 hotels frequently, and over the past few years many have swapped over to the bulk dispenser system. Of course, they promote it as for environmental reasons but obviously it’s financial. Irrespective, it’s what most 5 are moving towards so these people seem odd.

Sorry if this has been said already but large bottles are much better for sustainability than little individual ones- maybe you can highlight this? I don't see how it is unhygienic- in any public toilet you would have a common soap dispenser, for example. And as PPs said common in hotels for toiletries too.

And to put it on your back you use hands that perhaps haven't been washed for a while.... Then you touch it again immediately making your hands dirty with the same germs.

Pretty much all of the best 5 star hotels I have stayed in have big shared bottles of shampoo and conditioner….

I hope she never looks up what they find on train/London Underground/aircraft seats !!

Use it. Give the top a quick rinse-off.

She is completely unreasonable. Hotels do this including 5* luxury hotels. Cafes, restaurants, work places.

your set up sounds gorgeous

I had beem replying to a poster who refuses to touch communal soap dispensers, but is happy to route around in their bag for some soap after using a public toilet. I thought it was odd that someone would be happy to put dirty hands in their bag and all over their belongings in the name of hygiene.

No but your hands that haven't perhaps even washed in a couple of hours touched the doors going into the toilet, touched the lock and touched your bag handles when you put the bag down/hang it up/ put in your shoulder (which again is hardly sterile). So it is covered in germs... Then you wash your hands, and touch the bag again....

People worry far too much about germs.

Sounds wonderful , and she doesn’t have to use your stuff if she doesn’t want to ,I’ve stayed in loads, some provide shampoo etc and some don’t , but have to admit , I don’t thiink I’ve ever stayed in an air b and b with little sample bottles . Hotels yes. She’s a fussy pants . You always get one

There is a difference though.

When anyone stays in self-catering, the first rule is you want to feel you are the only ones who are there , with no sign of previous occupants, even if they left 3 hours ago!

Staying in a house is a different emotional experience to using outside loos etc.

If you use public loos or any shared spaces, you accept you're there as you're very much in need!

Going back years, self catering didn't provide any toiletries other than loo rolls. Or the fashion then was tiny packets of soap, wrapped in paper, that were changed after each guest.

Well if she had seen that or just has strange views on what is or is not hygienic then I just don't understand why she doesn't take her own toiletries with her when she goes away.

I almost always take my own (I use smallish travel bottles) but if the accommodation has provided toiletries I will use theirs.

As long as they are in the pumps that cannot be opened by other guests which it looks like you do I have no problem with them.

I don’t understand who doesn’t take their own however what if what you have wasn’t what they wanted to use anyway.

I hate the smell of some shower gels and body washes so I always take my own but if I like yours I’ll use it otherwise I’m prepared anyway. Plus tiny individual bottles are useless one wash at best if you are lucky.