Someone explain those Dettol hands-free things to me.

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OK. You need to wash your dirty hands, so you use those same filthy hands to turn the taps on, squirt a bit of soap on your hands, wash them and then use your nice clean hands to turn off the very same tap your manky digits have just turned on. How the fuck does having a hands-free soap dispenser make your hands cleaner? I just don't get it.

They're only giving them away because no feckers buying them Tiff

Very of the vouchers though!

did you hear that?

It was Dettol tearing up their advertising contract with MN :o

As DH says (every fecking time the ad comes on), there could be dog shit on the dispenser and it wouldn't matter because you are washing. your. hands. Gah!!

Tiff wasn't that because no one else bought it so couldn't enter?

there were runners up who got them as well!! it was the mumsnet top slot comp for june!

can you all please stop pointing and laughing at me!!

We have four of these at home and like them. I find that they are less messy than normal hand wash dispenser things, not had any drips or stickiness, etc. I always give the tap a rinse afterwards if my hands have been dirty anyway. Didn't buy them for particular hygiene reasons anyway and got all of them half price too.

Do you get one of those handwash thingys with your price?

Does anyone else use ye olde 'bar of soap' still, or is it just me keeping soap makers in business?

I hate bars of soap - so messy!

We love Simple Peppermint Antibac in this house BeerTricks. It get bonus points for being so strongly scented that it makes it easy to tell if 4 year old DS has remembered to wash his hands after the loo :)

thankyou beertricks!!

they are fucking possessed - you breath near them and they squirt soap at you!

I now have two of the things in my house, thanks to the Dettol feedback/product test.

DS is asking when I am going to buy refills for the 'magic' dispensers.

12th of Never I've told him (£3+ !)

For over a year I have been getting increasingly irate at this advert.. To the extent that my dd actually turns the telly over when it comes on. The product makes absolutely no sense and would only appeal to stupid
obsessed anal silly people with more money than sense

I bought one in Costco because
a: it was reduced in price
b:it will make my DCs use it .DD likes the smell and DS will use it for the novelty value
c: it keeps the little swine away from my L'Occitane soap

Lorelilee I don't wat a posessed soap dispenser! My airfreshener is on a timer and behaves like a Most Haunted sound effect.Scares the cr*p out of me!

We got one and we have got rid of it. The cat thought it was fabulous and sat there for three hours setting it off. I had a foamy smelly basin and a very entertained cat.

Incidentally the process is meant to be that the soap makes it easier for the bacteria to be sloughed off your skin. Something which actually has bugger all to do with touching anyway.

I have been telling DH that this is a pointless product but he just doesn't get it. Even 9 year old DD1 was surprised when she saw the ad and got why it was useless - you're washing your hands just after anyway!. But then he thinks anything said on TV is gospel as Very Clever People are in charge of these things.

Mega, more than happy to send you one of mine so that you can prove to DH it's pointless

Look closely at the add and the mum is handling raw chicken ON THE SAME BLOODY BOARD AS THE RAW VEG

Really?!

I can confirm there is half a cucumber on the same board as the raw chicken can't fond the ad on the Internet tho

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