Or is the Dettol touchless soap pump the most useless invention ever?

[LadyFlumpalot]

Why do you need to worry about touching the soap pump? The first thing you do after touching it is wash your hands!

Good idea, lets get rid of LOADS of germs so we all become sick and weak...

She did not wash the base of her hands/ wrist. Nor scrub the inner part of her palm or do her thumbs individually. So she has missed loads of parts anyway What a waste of money...

Yabnu. What a load of bollocks.

YANBU

It's pointless.

"Never touch a germy soap pump again."

What about the tap? You turn the tap on after you've been to the loo and before you've washed your hands. You then have to turn the same tap off after you've washed your hands. The tap is covered in germs because of that and yet you touch it after you've finsihed weashing your hands.

What next, automatic taps on every sink and basin in creation.

No,I do that too!

I do too but children probalby don't, or cant' turn taps on with their forearm and I doubt every adult does either.

The taps at work are impossible to turn on with forearms as they're round and the forearm just slips. I use a paper towel for the work tap but again I doubt everyone will. So if you tun the tap off with your hand, chances are it's been toushed by someone with "germy" hands.

It still illustrates that the Dettol no touch soap pump is pointless.

I agree. I never worry about touching the soap pump. Its touching the tap to turn it off after turning it on with my dirty hands that bothers me. I love the taps you can operate with your elbow :).

My friend who is an OT says that they're good for people who would have trouble operating a normal soap pump.

Haven't seen the ad but it encourages my kids to wash their hands ..... The refills are bloody expensive though.

I wish DS had a hands-free willy

I'm sorry Prince Humperdink - I have been here since March and had not seen one. It did not occur to me to do a search to see if anyone had ever done one before...Thank you for pointing out my breach of netiquette in such a lovely and non-patronising way.

Actually, some of the for points have started to sway me. I can see how it would encourage small children to wash their hands.

lol at blindmansmuff my son does not have a hands free willy either.

It's like loo cleaner ads - apparently the only way to actually kill all the germs on your toilet is to douse the entire thing in industrial alcohol and set it on fire.

[goes away to plan marketing campaign for "alco-hose-flame-thrower"

Does this soap dispenser dispense anti-bacterial soap?

If so, it's what's being dispensed and not the method of dispensing that's the problem.

Yanbu, I used to think so too - it doesn't matter, you are washing your hands!

However, they are good for small children who struggle to use a soap pump.

I'm so pleased I'm not the only one who's been shouting at the television "What's the fucking POINT, you're about to wash your hands ANYWAY!!!"

I did wonder if I was missing something though

I´m sure that for some people/circumstances they are very useful.

It´s the fact that they are sold from the POV of "never touching a germy soap dispenser again" that I find

If you have one for that reason do you carry it everywhere/buy one for all your friends?

Wouldn´t automatic taps be the obv thing?

It also shows a massive failure to understand that everything else you touch will be covered in germs.

I'm not certain if I I've got this right, but I'm sure if you're using antibacterial soap, none of it matters anyway. The antibacterial effect isn't instant, it takes anything from 30 sec to a couple if minutes for it to kill the bacteria on your hands. So you touch the pump, touch the tap, wash, touch tap again and them the active ingredient keeps working for another minute. If you're very paranoid, you can use a bit of antibacterial gel after too. I do at work as I share the toilets with about 1000 germ-ridden 17 year olds.

But yes, I've been yelling at that advert for ages too, until Dh explained how the soap works (to shut me up, perhaps) :)

Its the most pointless thing ever.

Well that depends on why you buy one. My daughter kept 'forgetting' to wash her hands after going to the loo but was fascinated by the advert for this. I finally caved to pressure and got one (on sale). She now has the cleanest hands ever. I'm not sure the advert is the best though. As someone said, I touch the germy filthy scummy soap dispenser (!!!!) then I wash my hands.....

I loved mine but they have suddenly started malfunctioning and dispense soap all on their own

anyone else had this happen?

my friends son who is autist became ocd after seeing the ad and thought if he would die from germs if he didnt use one these pumps :(

I got two free as part of a product trial on Mumsnet. Cant stand them.

Every time you move them to wipe the worktop, the bloody things ejaculate.

Most unpleasant.