dh has watered down the liquid soap

[EricaNernie]

i dont like this practice
it doesnt feel nice for a start
is it safe?

Just add less water from the tap -

It's fine, don't worry about it. It still works. It's not like he's watering down wine or spirits ffs.

Bottles of soap are an environmental disaster - all that single use plastic. Concern about litter and plastic seems to have gone out of the window while people try to antibac everything in sight.

We do have a bottle of liquid soap in the kitchen as it's more convenient than bars, but it's a refillable one from Splosh. Soap bars in the bathroom and loo. When I was in the supermarket last week the liquid soap was cleared out but there was loads of bar soap, bubble bath, shower gel - it's all the same basic product and will all do the same thing.

My colleague does this, it drives me mad because I press the pump gently to get the right amount of soap, not too much. Then I end up with hardly any suds.

Also when it's runnier than you were expecting it goes shooting off and hits you (or maybe that's just me).

I always add water to the end of the bottle though, that just seems sensible.

I always put some water in it when it’s reached the end, to get the last bits out.

I our house we always add a little water when we get to the end of the bottle to get another couple of uses out of it. We do the same for shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, washing up liquid... I thought everyone did

We are very anti-waste though so it just comes naturally to us.

@X1402 it's the actual soap that kills viruses. Soap reacts with fats as we know. The skin of the virus is made of fat. So when you apply soap it reacts with the virus skin and breaks it open and kills the virus. Soap doesn't kill bacteria, you're just manually moving the bacteria off, unless its antibacterial

You can make your own liquid soap from a bar of soap, I have got about 4/5 pints from one bar of soap and it is still super soapy. Video on how to do it is on YouTube.

Soap is not automatically antibacterial (and as pp said that's causing antibiotic resistance anyway) soap works because it's a surfactant lather lifting dirt and bacteria off the skin and disrupting cells and viral envelopes.

Disrupting bacterial cells is one of the major methods of antibacterial (bactericidal) action though. So by your own logic, soap is inherently antibacterial. But yes, the detergent action of lifting oncrpbes of the skin is also an important mechanism.

Hopefully (unlikely) this pandemic will allow people to understand that "antibac" is not a panacea. Bacteria are wholly and entirely different to viruses and "antibaccing" everything in the world isn't healthy or particularly bright.

I absolutely hate it when people do this! Can’t explain why but it drives me up the wall!

Much prefer bar soap

We have bars of soap anyway - less plastic and do the same job. Incidentally, the only soap I could buy in the last few weeks is vegan stuff! I guess people don’t think it as effective as regular soap but my research told me otherwise

You must be very frugal to feel the need to do this
Nowt wrong with being frugal,even if you have a bit of brass about you.

we always have bottles of shampoo with a drop in the bottom kickign around, i might start adding water to them! that and the shower gel

I actually watered mine down yesterday!😀. It’s an American foaming one from Bath and Body and smells divine. I’m trying to eek it out.

Bar soap does harbour microbes but there is no evidence this is transferred from user to user. There are studies where bars have been deliberately contaminated with more bacteria than ever would be present on the human hand, and no sign of those bacteria being transferred to the hand washer post contamination.

We water down the last bit here to get it out so it’s not wasted.

sadly i have just had a clear out of the nearly finished bottles in the bathroom after they had sat there for a while!

@Nottherealslimshady, you are contradicting yourself.

I do this to liquid soap too, and probably will until they design a bottle that has inward slopes at the bottom to direct the product towards a deepest point where the end of the straw-thing will be. It's not so much to eke it out but just to ensure the last bit gets used, as there's too much to just let it go to waste and I can't get any more to top it up at the moment.

Having said that, I've moved one of the bars of soap (I've been buying from TK Maxx for months) to the bathroom sink. I have so many lovely scented ones that I couldn't store them in the bathroom cabinet, so I put them in amongst my clothes in the chest of drawers. It's quite nice to hoik out a pair of socks and find they smell faintly of fig and vanilla...

I always water down the last dregs or you end up throwing it away and wasting it.

Can't see why it's a problem?

I'm shocked at how people are buy anti bac soap thinking it will protect them from a virus.

It's not the anti bac stuff you need, it's the action of washing with a surfectant to clear anything off your hands.

Soap, shower gel, even washing up liquid will all do the job on your hands.

Does hand sanitizer remove stuff off your hands or just kill germs?

The outer layer of Corona viruses both covid 19and ordinary cold and flu (also Corona viruses) are made of a lipid fat layer, the soap disturbs fat layer so any Corona viruses one bar of soap will be inactivated, the same can't be said for Corona viruses on the pump handle of liquid soap but of course any you pick up activating liquid soap will be removed by hand washing process

This is why we really really don't need anti bacterial soap in the home at any time

I always put a splash of water in at the end.

Washing up liquid is even better - if it can get the grease off my roasting tin it can kill CV!